Corning Incorporated

What does Corning own?
Corning owns its glass and ceramics product lines: Gorilla Glass, display substrates, optical fiber and cable, emissions ceramics, and life-science labware, plus the Hemlock Semiconductor joint venture.

Is Corning publicly traded?
Yes. It trades on the NYSE under ticker GLW as an S&P 500 component.

Is Corning the same company that made Pyrex?
Yes. Corning invented Pyrex in 1915 but licensed the consumer bakeware brand to International Cookware in the 1990s, retaining the materials businesses.

Who founded Corning?
Amory Houghton founded the glass works in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1851; it moved to Corning, New York in 1868.

How much revenue does Corning generate?
$15.6 billion GAAP sales in FY2025, with $16.4 billion in core sales, both records.

What is the Springboard plan?
Corning's growth program launched in late 2023; upgraded in January 2026 to add $11 billion in incremental annualized sales by end of 2028.

Where is Corning headquartered?
Corning, New York, USA.

Amory Houghton founded the company in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1851 as a glass works, moving to Corning, New York in 1868, where the town itself was later named for the company.

Its inventions read like industrial history: the glass envelope for Edison's light bulbs in 1879, Pyrex heat-resistant glass in 1915, the cathode-ray tube glass that made television possible, low-loss optical fiber in 1970 that enabled modern telecommunications, and Gorilla Glass in 2007 for the iPhone generation.

The company nearly died in the 2001 telecom bust when fiber demand collapsed, recovering to build a diversified materials portfolio. The LCD display glass business, built through the 2000s as panel sizes exploded, added a second pillar alongside optical.

Wendell Weeks, a Corning lifer since 1983, became CEO in 2005 and chairman in 2007, making him among the longest-tenured industrial chiefs. His Springboard plan, launched in late 2023, drove the margin and cash-flow transformation behind the FY2025 results.

The company's products are enablers: fiber reduces the energy cost of data transport, emissions substrates clean vehicle exhaust, and durable cover glass extends device life.

Corning publishes sustainability reporting on manufacturing energy, emissions, and workforce. Its heavy-industry footprint in glass melting makes energy efficiency and emissions reduction the central operational metrics.

China exposure: Display and specialty manufacturing concentrated in China, Korea, and Taiwan creates geopolitical and tariff exposure periodically flagged by analysts.

Antitrust history: Corning settled a long-running EU display glass cartel case in earlier decades; the episode remains in its regulatory record.