- Headquarters
- Corning, New York, United States · North America
- Value chain
- Advanced materials(Inputs); also Components & subsystems
- What that means
- Supplies engineered solid materials: fibres and composites, alloys and powders, wafers and substrates, magnets, nanomaterials, ceramics, isotopes and battery materials.
- Founded
- 1851
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- NYSE:GLW on Google Finance
- Website
- corning.com
- Relevance
- Very high at its strongest, in Advanced Optical Communication & Photonics
Corning, New York, United StatesIn 3 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
Connectivity, Cyber & Trust Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #5 of 50
Inventor of low-loss optical fibre and the largest optical fibre and cable producer outside China (SMF-28, Optical Communications segment).
Relevance: Fibre inventor and largest fibre producer outside China
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #18 of 50
Inventor of low-loss optical fibre and the world's largest maker of optical fibre and specialty glass for photonics and high-purity fused silica.
Relevance: Inventor of low-loss optical fibre; world leader
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Equipment & materials · listed #31 of 50
Makes Advanced-Flow Reactors, glass and silicon-carbide continuous-flow reactors used to move chemical and pharmaceutical synthesis from lab to industrial scale.
Relevance: Advanced-Flow Reactor maker