Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company, founded in 1851 and historically operated as Corning Glass Works, specializing in glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics for industrial and scientific applications. During the twentieth century it became known for consumer products such as CorningWare, Visions Pyroceram cookware, Corelle tableware, and Pyrex bakeware, before divesting these consumer lines in 1998. The company today maintains five major business divisions, display technologies, environmental technologies, life sciences, optical communications, and specialty materials, and created Gorilla Glass, widely used in smartphone screens; it has been one of the main suppliers to Apple Inc. since working with Steve Jobs in 2007 to develop the iPhone. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Company TypeAmerican multinational technology company specializing in glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications 2 Founded Year HeadquartersCorning, New York, U.S. 2 Company Type
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Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company specializing in glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. Founded in 1851, the company was called Corning Glass Works for most of its history.
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Technology, Glass & ceramic materials
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Corning Incorporated: What Glass Is For, Reconsidered Every Few Decades
The subject of the essay: its 1851 founding, 1998 consumer-line divestiture and 2007 Gorilla Glass work are what the reframing rests on.
Read the EssayCorning Sold Its Kitchenware Brands to Focus on Smartphone Glass
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