‘Gorilla Glass’ for iPhones and iPads drives growth at Corning

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Apple Online Store“Corning is making its Consumer Electronics Show (CES) debut this year. And though it’s a newcomer, it’s one of the most talked about and prevalent companies at the convention,” Julia Boorstin reports for CNBC. “This year, the CES is focused largely on touch-screen tablets and smart phones, and Corning makes the material—called Gorilla Glass—that encases nearly all these devices.”

“Gorilla Glass is used in 150 different products on the market today—phones, tablets and laptop screens,” Boorstin reports. “Over 200 million devices with Gorilla Glass have sold and after just three years on the market it has 20 percent of the phone market.”

Boorstin reports, “Corning doesn’t talk about who its customers are, but Apple is clearly one of its largest—it uses the glass for its iPhone and iPad.”

Full article here.

See also: http://www.corninggorillaglass.com/

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JES42” for the heads up.]

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  2. but do they still make this particular product in Corning NY? Here in central PA, about 10 years ago Corning closed a plant that employed 1,000 — by far the largest local employer other than the university. In a particularly heartbreaking process, they literally disassembled all of the industrial equipment in the plant, shipped it to China, and reassembled it at their new site there.

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  5. I’m at a military base in Afghanistan, there are rocks for walking paths here – last week I accidentally dropped my iPad – it landed flush onto the screen.

    The screen is cracked and spiderwebbed, but my iPad is STILL working – I typed this response on it actually.

    I have a MacBook, iPod, and have had all iPhones – I’ve never dropped any of them until now.

    Thanks to the high quality of Apple products and to Corning’s Gorilla Glass my iPad is still usable, I go on vacation in March – to Rome where I’ll get my iPad repaired.

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  7. My son is in Afghanistan, too – here’s to all our men and women doing a tough job over there.

    My dad worked his entire career for Corning, and I worked for them the first 5 years of my career. They don’t even make “Corning Ware” anymore – which is what the public knows them for. Like a lot of companies, their products are used to make the familiar end-use items that people buy in stores, but otherwise invisible.

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  8. I’ve held Corning shares since around 2008 and this company isn’t doing a damn thing for its shareholders. First they were going to make big money from large-screen TV displays. Nothing. Then they were going to make big money from flexible fiber cable. Nothing. Now they’re going to make big money from Gorilla Glass products. Stock has barely budged.

    This company must be a magician because they’re making money disappear into some sort of invisible hole. I think I purchased the stock around $21 a share and after holding it two years it’s at $19. Who the hell is Corning trying to kid? Whatever strength the Gorilla Glass is giving to millions of products is one thing, but it’s certainly not giving any strength to its share price. I’d hate to see where the company would be without Apple’s little bit of help.

    At least they give small dividends so it’s not a total waste.

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  11. I have a set of dishes, plates, and cups made from Corning material, now decades old. They seem to be almost indestructible. While other traditional “tableware” have broken, chipped, and discolored over time, the Corning-made stuff looks almost brand new.

    Perhaps an investment opportunity to consider…

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