24 Facts About Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications.

Corning Incorporated divested its consumer product lines in 1998 by selling the Corning Incorporated Consumer Products Company subsidiary to Borden.

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

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

Corning Incorporated 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.

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Corning Incorporated 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.

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

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

In 1962 Corning Incorporated 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 Incorporated 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 Incorporated expanded its fiber operations significantly through the acquisition of telecommunications company Oak Industries and building several new plants.

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

In 2011 Corning Incorporated 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 Incorporated is a leading manufacturer of the glass used in liquid crystal displays.

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

The number of Corning Incorporated 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.

Corning Incorporated is engaged in research and development on green lasers, mercury abatement, microreactors, photovoltaics, and silicon on glass.

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

Corning Incorporated was the glass supplier for lightbulbs for General Electric after Edison General Electric merged with Thomson-Houston Electric Company in 1892.

Corning Incorporated manufactured the windows for US manned space vehicles, and supplied the glass blank for the primary mirror in the Hubble Space Telescope.

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

In February 2011, Corning Incorporated 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 Incorporated acquired All of 3M Communication Market Division, in a cash transaction approximately $900 million.