The ribbon is cut! Corning’s new optical manufacturing plant in Mszczonów, Poland is officially open and ready to meet the demand for high-speed connectivity in the European Union and beyond.
Corning is adding more than 400 jobs to the North Carolina workforce with the opening of our new optical cable manufacturing campus. Learn more about how the new campus will help address the
#broadband
gap: .
Corning’s state-of-the-art plant in Poland is our latest investment in fiber and cable manufacturing global infrastructure totaling more than $500 million since 2020.
Corning is committed to connecting all Americans to reliable, high-speed internet. Thank you to
@NC_Governor
,
@SecRaimondo
, and
@NTCAconnect
for joining us to celebrate the opening of our Trivium manufacturing campus in Hickory, N.C. this week.
The doors are open at Corning’s new optical fiber manufacturing plant in Mszczonów, Poland. The plant will help meet the growing demand for high-speed connectivity across Europe and surrounding regions. Learn more: .
Today, we announced a $5.5 million, five-year partnership with
@ncatsuaggies
to support students in
#STEM
and teaching. Learn more:
#HBCU
📷: North Carolina A&T State University
#DYK
that Corning supplied custom optics for
@NASA
's James Webb Space Telescope? Our technology has played a vital role in decades of space discoveries, and we are proud to build this legacy to
#UnfoldTheUniverse
.
Today, we mourn the loss of Amory (Amo) Houghton, Jr., 93, who passed away Wednesday and served Corning as chairman and CEO from 1964 to 1983. The Corning family extends deepest thoughts and sympathies to the Houghton family. Learn more:
Today, Corning opens a manufacturing facility in Newton, NC, to meet the growing demand for optical fiber and cable. The demand stems from the worldwide growth in bandwidth requirements as the number of connected devices continues to increase dramatically:
Today
@Apple
announced an additional $250M investment from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund in Corning’s Harrodsburg, Ky. facility. This new investment supports Corning’s efforts as a supplier of precision glass for next-generation devices. Learn more:
Happy New Year from Corning! Thank you to all of our fans and followers for an amazing year! We can’t wait to see what exciting innovation awaits in 2018.
On this day in 1877, Corning received its first patent. Over 140 years later, we have nearly 10,000 patents and counting. Our patent portfolio ranges from the cover glass on your smartphone to the filters that clean the exhaust from your car. That's a lot of innovation!
We’ve worked extensively with
@Apple
over the years to solve tough problems, and our latest collaboration led to the introduction of Ceramic Shield, the world’s first transparent glass-ceramic that’s highly durable and tougher than any smartphone glass:
Corning Optical Communications kicked off 2017 with an Emmy, and finished with 6 major awards, 3 big announcements, and 2 announced acquisitions. We'd say that's a pretty successful year. Can't wait to see what 2018 has in store! Read more:
Today we celebrate the birthday of renowned inventor, Thomas Edison. Corning is proud to have played a key role in his most famous invention by developing the glass envelope for the light bulb. Here's to many more years of light, progress, and innovation.
We’re proud to receive an additional $57M in funding from the
@DeptofDefense
and
@BARDA
to help continue delivering vials for hundreds of millions of doses as part of the U.S.
#COVID19
response. Learn more:
Corning mourns the passing of James “Jamie” R. Houghton who loyally served twice as the company’s chairman and CEO. Jamie helped transform Corning into the company it is today, building a culture of quality and diversity.
In 2021, Corning generated year-over-year sales growth across all five segments resulting in more than $14 billion in core net sales. Read our full 2021 Annual Report: . $GLW
Thank you,
@POTUS
for supporting U.S. made optical fiber and cable. Corning continues to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity to meet growing demand for fiber-based networks that can help connect more Americans.
#StateoftheUnion
#InternetforAll
To meet America’s evolving digital needs in broadband,
#5G
, and the cloud, we are building on our longstanding commitment with
@ATT
to ramp up U.S. manufacturing capacity and unlock the power of fiber network connectivity. Learn more: .
Flat glass that bends into beautiful 3D shapes. Sound impossible? Check out the possibilities of
@corninggorilla
in the auto industry, and stay tuned for more exciting news from Corning at
#CES2018
:
We’re awed by the first image released from
@NASA
’s James Webb Space Telescope. Corning played a vital role in the capture of this high-res image by providing the technology that helped point and stabilize the telescope platform.
#UnfoldtheUniverse
It's here–the deepest, sharpest infrared view of the universe to date: Webb's First Deep Field.
Previewed by
@POTUS
on July 11, it shows galaxies once invisible to us. The full set of
@NASAWebb
's first full-color images & data will be revealed July 12:
We're celebrating
#WomensHistoryMonth
by sharing stories of women at Corning!
Learn more about how they're shaping a brighter, clearer future:
#SheIsCorning
Meet Sinue who works as a glass technology and product development manager. She finds purpose in her career at Corning and is proud to collaborate on solutions that meet customers’ challenges!
#WomenInScience
We’re proud to continue to support
@NYGovCuomo
and New York State by donating laboratory supplies essential to increasing the state’s capacity to test for
#COVID19
across the region.
Rapid testing is key to slowing COVID-19 & NYS companies are helping to increase the state's testing capacity:
➡️
@Regeneron
: creating 500K test kits at no charge
➡️
@Corning
: donated 100K tubes (+500K at reduced cost)
Happy
#LaborDay
! Today and every day, we are grateful for our nearly 50K employees around the world who continue to drive our success through their ingenuity and innovative spirits!
Happy
#NationalInternDay
! Today, with
@wayup
, we celebrate our nearly 300 interns who have joined us this summer at Corning locations across the United States. Follow us and meet some of our interns from the Class of 2019!
We're celebrating
#50YearsOfFiber
! 🎉
The invention of low-loss optical fiber – a strand of glass – transformed the way we connect with each other. How do you plan to celebrate?
We’re at the start of a new era of connectivity, and it calls for a future-proofing approach. To ensure broadband networks constructed today will have the bandwidth capacity for tomorrow,
@ATT
is counting on fiber-based networks built w/ our optical cable.
While on our travels in Corning, New York for tomorrow's all-new
#Dateline
, we visited the
@corningmuseum
to learn about the industry that has been putting the town on the map for over a century...
#HappyThanksgiving
! We are thankful for the vibrant communities in which we work and our employees around the world who are committed to developing the next generation of life-changing innovations!
“We leveraged the fusion forming technology to make the first composition of Gorilla Glass here in Harrodsburg.”
Learn more from Corning’s Amy Porter, who recently gave
@CNBC
a tour of our Harrodsburg, KY facility to see how Gorilla Glass is made:
Thanks for visiting our Big Flats, N.Y. facility last week
@SenGillibrand
! We’re proud to be able to expand our domestic production capacity of Corning Valor® Glass vials to help enable faster, more reliable drug manufacturing and delivery critical to the
#COVID19
response.
How are we continually innovating with
@corninggorilla
? Our keynote speaker will discuss Corning Gorilla Glass' legacy and future innovations at the innovation and application panel at
#TouchTaiwan2018
. Learn more: .
We’ve worked with
@Apple
for more than a decade to solve tough problems, and our latest collaboration led to the introduction of Ceramic Shield, the world’s first transparent and color-free glass-ceramic for smartphones. Learn more:
Check out a recent feature from
@WSJ
on how we’re expanding manufacturing capabilities of our revolutionary pharmaceutical glass vials to continue to support the
#COVID19
vaccination response.
Corning plans this year to make 50% more of the vials needed for Covid-19 vaccines than it previously expected after receiving more federal funding, the latest step to meet heavy demand for a vital vaccine component
Congratulations to Stephanie Burns from the Corning Board of Directors on being named one of the Top 50 Women in STEM. See the full list of STEM leaders here: .
This week, we’re donating 150,000 surgical masks to regional hospitals to support the frontline medical workers in the communities where our employees live and work.
Learn more:
#COVID19
Bryce joined us this summer from the Georgia Institute of Technology as a research intern. She says being a Corning intern means you are at the center of innovation.
#NationalInternDay
@wayup
Big day at
#NCAT
. Included in this historic partnership is the introduction of 53 new
@Corning
Scholars and Fellows. The investment will prepare students for careers in
#STEM
and education - increasing teachers from racial & ethnic minority backgrounds.
Today, Corning Gorilla Glass for Automotive announced its AutoGrade™ glass solutions for automotive interiors.
Learn more about how our new, industry-first solutions help widen the design window to enable next-generation automotive trends:
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬 Here at Corning, we believe women are as strong as the glass they work with. Meet some of our female employees throughout the day dedicated to developing life-changing innovations.
#WomenInScience
We’re excited to collaborate with
@Merck
on developing new approaches to solve complex scientific and business challenges. Learn more about how we’re leveraging advanced analytics, data science, and digital technologies to make it possible:
Engineer, humanitarian, and STEM and diversity advocate — and now a 2018 Black Engineer of the Year. Here’s why Eric Biribuze’s latest honor is so well-deserved:
We are thrilled that two of Corning’s top leaders -- Lawrence D. McRae and Lewis A. Steverson -- were named to the
@blackenterprise
300 Most Powerful Executives list. Both men were honored at an event at the
@jpmorgan
HQ. Read more: .
#BEPower300
Throughout Corning's history, women have been shaping the world. We're proud of our female scientists, engineers, and working professionals leading the way!
Hear some of their stories:
#WomensHistoryMonth
#SheIsCorning