Corning Glass Works

Corning Incorporated

Type	Public
Traded as	: GLW S&P 500 Component
Industry	Glass & Ceramic Materials
Founded	1851 (1851)
Headquarters	Corning, New York, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Wendell P. Weeks (Chairman, CEO, and President)
Products	Specialty glass Ceramics Optical fiber Cable, hardware & equipment Emissions control technology LCD glass Life sciences products
Revenue	US$10.217 billion (2014)
Operating income	US$1.371 billion (2013)
Net income	US$2.472 billion (2014)
Total assets	US$ 28.478 billion (2013)
Total equity	US$21.211 billion (2013)
Number of employees	34,000 (October 2014)
Divisions	Display technologies, telecommunications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, life sciences
Website	www.Corning.com

Corning Incorporated is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics, and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known as Corning Glass Works until 1989, when it changed its name to Corning Incorporated. In 1998, Corning divested itself of its consumer lines of CorningWare and Corelle tableware and Pyrex cookware selling them to World Kitchen, but still holds an interest of about 8%. As of 2014^[update], Corning had five major business sectors: Display Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Life Sciences, Optical Communications, and Specialty Materials. Corning is involved in two joint ventures: Dow Corning and Pittsburgh Corning. Quest Diagnostics and Covance were spun off from Corning in 1996. Corning is one of the main suppliers to Apple Inc. since working with Steve Jobs in 2007 to develop the iPhone.

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