Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated engages in the display technologies optical communications environmental technologies specialty materials and life sciences businesses worldwide. The company's Display Technologies segment offers glass substrates for flat panel displays including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes that are used in televisions notebook computers desktop monitors tablets and handheld devices. Its Optical Communications segment provides optical fibers and cables; and hardware and equipment products such as cable assemblies fiber optic hardware and connectors optical components and couplers closures network interface devices and other accessories for the telecommunications industry businesses governments and individuals. The company's Specialty Materials segment manufactures products that offer material formulations for glass glass ceramics crystals precision metrology instruments and software as well as glass wafers and substrates tinted sunglasses and radiation shielding products for various markets comprising mobile consumer electronics semiconductor equipment optics and consumables aerospace and defense optics radiation shielding products sunglasses and telecommunications components. Its Environmental Technologies segment provides ceramic substrates and filter products for emissions control in mobile gasoline and diesel applications. The company's Life Sciences segment offers laboratory products including consumables such as plastic vessels liquid handling plastics specialty surfaces cell culture media and serum as well as general labware and glassware and equipment under the Corning Falcon Pyrex and Axygen brands. Corning Incorporated was formerly known as Corning Glass Works and changed its name to Corning Incorporated in April 1989. The company was founded in 1851 and is headquartered in Corning New York.