Corning

Corning Incorporated is an American  that specializes in specialty, s, and related materials and technologies including advanced , primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was named Corning Glass Works until 1989. Corning divested its consumer product lines (including and  -based cookware,  Vitrelle tableware, and  glass bakeware) in 1998 by selling the Corning Consumer Products Company subsidiary (now known as ) to, but still holds an interest of about 8 percent.

History
Corning Glass Works was founded in 1851 by Amory Houghton, in, , originally as the Bay State Glass Co. It later moved to , , , and operated as the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The company moved again to its ultimate home and namesake, the city of, , in 1868 under leadership of the founder's son, Amory Houghton, Jr.

In 1908, the firm established one of the first industrial research labs in Corning, New York, where it is presently headquartered. It continues to the facility, as well as operations associated with  and  product lines. Corning has a long history of and has assured community leaders that it intends to remain headquartered in its small upstate New York hometown.

As of 2014, Corning had five major business sectors: display technologies, environmental technologies, life sciences, optical communications, and specialty materials. Corning is involved in two s: and Pittsburgh Corning. and were  from Corning in 1996.

Apple and Corning
After Apple's late CEO Steve Jobs announced the original iPhone in January 2007, he complained to VP of operations Jeff Williams about the scratches that had already developed on the plastic screen of the prototype and said, "We need glass." Two days later, Corning CEO contacted Williams to tell him: "Hey, your boss called and said my glass sucks." Apple and Corning then scrambled to develop a manufacturing process for a new type of that Corning had been researching. By late June, the iPhones began shipping with the glass screens which later became known as.

Corning develops and manufactures Gorilla Glass for many other smartphone makers, making it one of the world's biggest glassmakers. Corning won the four times for its product and process innovations.

In October 2020, Apple introduced Ceramic Shield for the screens of iPhone 12 models that were advertised to have 4 times improved drop performance over previous versions. According to Corning, Ceramic Shield consists of colorless ceramic nano crystals embedded in the glass matrix. It is believed to be stronger than, which is reinforced with.