21 Facts About Corning Glass

Corning is one of the main suppliers to Apple Inc Since working with Steve Jobs in 2007 to develop the iPhone; Corning develops and manufactures Gorilla Glass, which is used by many smartphone makers.

Corning Glass won the National Medal of Technology and Innovation four times for its product and process innovations.

Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in Somerville, Massachusetts, originally as the Bay State Glass Co.

Corning Glass moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city of Corning, New York, in 1868 under leadership of the founder's son, Amory Houghton, Jr.

Corning Glass has a long history of community development and has assured community leaders that it intends to remain headquartered in its small upstate New York hometown.

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Corning Glass's first attempt was a failure, the cast blank having voids.

In 1935, Corning Glass formed a partnership with bottle maker Owens-Illinois, which formed the company known today as Owens Corning Glass.

In 1962 Corning Glass developed Chemcor, a new toughened automobile windshield designed to be thinner and lighter than existing windshields, which reduced danger of personal injury by shattering into small granules when smashed.

Corning Glass developed it as an alternative to laminated windshields with the intention of becoming an automotive industry supplier.

Company profits soared in the late 1990s during the dot-com boom, and Corning Glass expanded its fiber operations significantly through the acquisition of telecommunications company Oak Industries and building several new plants.

Corning Glass entered the photonics market, investing heavily with the intent of becoming the leading provider of complete fiber-optic systems.

In 2011 Corning Glass announced the expansion of existing facilities and the construction of a Gen 10 facility co-located with the Sharp Corporation manufacturing complex in Sakai, Osaka, Japan.

Corning Glass is investing in the production of ceramic emission control products for diesel engines as a result of tighter emission standards for those engines both in the U S and abroad.

In 2007 Corning Glass introduced an optic fiber, ClearCurve, which uses nanostructure technology to facilitate the small radius bending found in FTTX installations.

Gorilla Corning Glass, an outgrowth of the 1960s Chemcor project, is a high-strength alkali-aluminosilicate thin sheet glass used as a protective cover glass offering scratch resistance and durability in many touchscreens.

The number of Corning facilities employing the traditional tanks of molten glass has declined over the years, but it maintains the capacity to supply bulk or finished glass of many types.

Over its 160-year history Corning invented a process for rapid and inexpensive production of light bulbs, including developing the glass for Thomas Edison's light bulb.

In July 2008 Corning announced the sale of Steuben Glass Works to Steuben Glass LLC, an affiliate of the private equity firm Schottenstein Stores Corporation.

Steuben Corning Glass had been unprofitable for more than a decade, losing 30 million dollars over the previous five years.

In February 2011, Corning Glass acquired MobileAccess Networks, an Israeli company that develops Distributed antenna systems, which are often used by universities, stadiums and airports to ensure seamless wireless coverage throughout a facility.

In December 2017, Corning Glass acquired All of 3M Communication Market Division, in a cash transaction approximately $900 million.