Corning.com is a manufacturer of glass and ceramics for home & industry
Corning
In the world of specialty glass and ceramics, Corning Incorporated is number one. Its Web site, Corning.com, aptly demonstrates why the company is the world leader in the production of fiber-optic cable, a product which it created over 30 years ago.
Corning.com talks about how the company made its name in the kitchenware industry and as a top-notch manufacturer of laboratory products. From there, Corning has become the top producer of optic fiber and cable products and communications network equipment in the world.
Corning has over 150 years of experience in materials science and process engineering.
The company also makes glass substrates for flat-panel LCD televisions; computer monitors and laptops; optical biosensors for drug discovery; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions.
Corning.com shows how the company services many top industries, including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and meteorology. As a provider of ceramics for catalytic converters, Corning is a major player in environmental technology.
By end-2006, Corning reported sales of $5,174.0M and a net income of $1,855.0M, representing 217.1% income growth. It had over 24,500 employees.
Officers:
- Chairman and CEO: Wendell P. Weeks
- Vice Chairman and CFO: James B. Flaws
- President, COO and Director: Peter F. Volanakis
Competitors:
- Asahi Glass
- Furukawa Electric
- Sumitomo Electric
Market Segments
Corning.com identifies the company's key market segments as display technologies, environmental technologies, life sciences and telecommunications.
Display Technologies
The Web site narrates how Corning became a leader in the production of the active matrix liquid crystal display (LCD) glass technology used in LCD televisions.
At the heart of Corning's dominance in this field is its innovative fusion process, an extraordinarily precise process for making those clean, smooth, flat surfaces of LCD screens that account for the innovative and commercially popular LCD TVs. Apparently, sky is the limit for Corning in this regard as the process is apparently scalable to whatever larger size of glass is needed. Corning.com estimates that the demand for flat panel glass will double by 2009.
Corning is currently expanding its facilities in Taichung, Taiwan and Shizuoka, Japan. A new finishing facility will soon open in Beijing, China, a first in mainland China.
On display technologies, Corning.com also features products and applications, discovery center, media center, viewing angle and a technical library.
Environmental Technologies
This section in Corning.com talks about the three basic areas of the company's products and applications -- ceramic substrates, particulate filters and catalyst supporters.
Corning.com reveals the efforts of Corning Environmental Technologies in the area of creative emission control solutions to support a cleaner and healthier environment, a campaign which the company has supported for over 30 years.
The Web site discusses Corning's emission-control innovations that are now at the core of some of the world’s most effective pollution control systems.
Life Sciences
Corning.com features a host of the company's products and solutions in the area of Life Sciences. Nearly a hundred such products are listed alphabetically, ranging from adapter tubes and aspirators to vials and watch glasses.
The Web site's sections include a Product Catalog, Technical Information, Product Literature, Microplate Equipment Compatibility Guide, Glassware Selection Guide, Stirrer and Hot Plate Selection Guide, Online Certificates of Compliance, Corning Partners Network and Epic System.
The Web site also carries the useful 2007 Corning Live Scientific Seminar Series Online which presents tips, techniques and best practices to aid research.
Languages
English
Address
- Internet Team, Sp-Ww-01
- Corning NY 14831 US
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- Stock: GLW
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