# CORNING INC /NY

Summary updated: 2026-10-02T09:03:26.117413Z
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## Overview

Corning Inc. is a global materials-science and advanced-manufacturing company whose technologies are based on glass science, ceramics, optical physics, engineering, and manufacturing. Its products and systems serve communications, display, automotive, solar, life-sciences, and other specialty-material applications. Corning describes its purpose as being “vital to progress,” with inventions intended to transform industries and enhance people’s lives. [1](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P16021248)[2](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P35894683)[3](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/company-profile.html)

Its 2026 reporting identifies Optical Communications, Glass Innovations, Automotive, and Solar, alongside Life Sciences and Emerging Growth Businesses. Key offerings include optical fiber, cable and connectivity products, display glass, automotive products, and life-science products. [4](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16521221)[5](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16521228)[6](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/corning-business-segments.html) Corning operates and sells globally. In FY2025, its latest completed annual reporting year, it reported net sales of $15.629 billion; its company profile cites approximately 70,000 employees worldwide, excluding Hemlock Semiconductor employees. [7](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P58917042)[3](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/company-profile.html) The latest available interim reporting as of October 2, 2026, covers Q2 2026. [8](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=D348720)
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## Products & services

Corning’s Optical Communications products include optical fiber, cable, connectivity hardware and integrated solutions for carrier, fiber-to-the-home, submarine, enterprise and hyperscale data-center networks. Fiber lines include Vascade®, LEAF®, SMF-28e® ULL, TXF®, SMF-28e+™ and ClearCurve®. SMF-28e® Contour is designed to be 40% smaller with improved bend resistance, while Contour Flow™ Cable accommodates twice the fiber in the same cable diameter. Edge8® offers high-density pre-connectorized enterprise cabling with a path to 400G and beyond; Evolv™ solutions support pre-connectorized fiber-to-the-home deployments. [9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P24499777)[10](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P119111594)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P31092175)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P121233423)

For displays, Corning makes glass substrates for LCD and OLED screens. Its fusion process produces large substrates with pristine surfaces, thermal stability and dimensional uniformity; Corning® Astra® Glass is designed for high-resolution displays and optimized for oxide TFT backplanes. Specialty Materials include chemically strengthened Corning® Gorilla® Glass for electronic-device covers and enclosures, as well as HPFS® fused silica, ULE® and EXTREME ULE® glass, optical metrology instruments and custom optical assemblies for semiconductor applications. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104106317)[14](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P90010661)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P25332489)[16](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P90770012)

Automotive products include ceramic substrates for catalytic converters, particulate filters for exhaust emissions, technical glass and automotive cover glass and windows using AutoGrade™ Gorilla® Glass, 3D ColdForm™ Technology and Fusion5™ Glass. Life Sciences offerings include laboratory labware and cell-culture products for research and drug development. Corning also supplies high-purity polysilicon for solar and electronics, solar wafers and modules, and pharmaceutical glass tubing and vials. [17](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P50793412)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69302879)[19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P30741922)[20](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P9906110)[21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P115937650)[22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P96894943)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P77082465)

In the first half of 2026, reported sales were $3.918 billion for Optical Communications, $2.883 billion for Glass Innovations, $908 million for Automotive, $808 million for Solar, and $566 million for Life Sciences and Emerging Growth Businesses—approximately 43%, 32%, 10%, 9% and 6% of the $9.083 billion total, respectively. Percentages are calculated from reported segment sales. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P144378569)
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## Geographic presence

In 2025, Corning’s geographic sales table attributed sales by customer location to Asia Pacific ($7.646 billion; 46.6%), North America ($7.105 billion; 43.3%), Europe ($1.412 billion; 8.6%) and All Other ($245 million; 1.5%). The largest country amounts were the United States ($6.760 billion; 41.2% of the table total), China ($4.971 billion; 30.3%), Taiwan ($1.032 billion; 6.3%), Japan ($682 million; 4.2%) and Korea ($420 million; 2.6%). The table’s $16.408 billion total is distinct from consolidated net sales of $15.629 billion. [25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T6802095)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903)[27](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P24685797)

Corning reported 55.6 million square feet of facilities: 47.1 million for manufacturing, 2.5 million for sales and administration, 2.1 million for research and development, and 3.9 million for warehouses. Of the manufacturing space, 14.5 million square feet was domestic and 32.6 million foreign. [28](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P84520340)[29](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P23942386) The company had about 67,200 employees across 44 countries, but did not report regional or country headcount in the cited annual filing. [30](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P57566729)

Corning identifies its central research and development site as Sullivan Park, New York, with research centers in Shanghai and Changzhou, China; Pune, India; and Fontainebleau, France. Its official China overview lists display-glass manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Hefei, Chongqing, Wuhan and Guangzhou; the company also says Gorilla Glass is manufactured in Kentucky, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. [31](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/innovation/culture-of-innovation/global-labs-culture-of-innovation-corning.html)[32](https://www.corning.com/media/cn/global/documents/one-pager-updates/Corning%20China%20One%20Pager_EN_202505.pdf)[6](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/corning-business-segments.html)
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## Business segments

Corning reported five reportable segments for 2025. Approximate shares below are calculated from segment and business-group sales totaling $16.408 billion, so they represent the reported sales mix rather than shares of consolidated GAAP net sales. [33](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P57633160)[34](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T11138137) Hemlock and Emerging Growth Businesses is disclosed separately and is not a reportable segment. [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P115937650)

Optical Communications (38.2%; $6.274 billion) supplies optical fiber, cable, hardware and connectivity solutions for carrier and enterprise networks, including data centers. [35](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P108869410)[9](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P24499777)[11](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P31092175)[12](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P121233423)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903) Display (22.5%; $3.697 billion) makes glass substrates for LCD and OLED flat-panel displays. [13](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P104106317)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903) Specialty Materials (13.5%; $2.211 billion) provides specialty glass, glass ceramics, crystals, precision optics and related products for markets including mobile electronics, semiconductor equipment, aerospace and defense. [36](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P97651703)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P25332489)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903) Automotive (10.9%; $1.794 billion) supplies ceramic substrates and filters for emissions control, as well as technical glass and optics for vehicles. [37](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P21873886)[38](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69371862)[18](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P69302879)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903) Life Sciences (5.9%; $972 million) supplies laboratory consumables, cell-culture products, labware, glassware and equipment for research, diagnostics and bioproduction. [19](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P30741922)[39](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P13417025)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903) Hemlock and Emerging Growth Businesses (8.9%; $1.460 billion) primarily includes high-purity polysilicon for solar and electronics, along with solar products, pharmaceutical glass and emerging businesses. [21](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P115937650)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P77082465)[26](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T3445903)
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## Company history

Corning traces its origins to 1851, when Amory Houghton Sr. began the glass business that became the company. In 1868, the business moved from Brooklyn to Corning, New York, and became Corning Flint Glass Works [40](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/the-progress-report/crystal-clear/for-this-four-generation-family-corning-runs-deep)[41](https://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/worldwide/en/a-big-company-in-small-town-new-york-enabling-the-digital-era.html). The company supplied glass for Thomas Edison’s incandescent lamp and became his sole bulb-glass supplier by 1880 [42](https://www.corning.com/cala/es/innovation/culture-of-innovation/history-of-innovation-feature-article.html). It introduced heat-resistant PYREX glassware in 1915 and developed a high-speed ribbon machine for mass-producing light bulbs in 1926 [43](https://www.corning.com/emea/en/innovation/culture-of-innovation/the-history-of-corning-innovation.html)[44](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/innovation/materials-science/glass/vaccine-timeline.html).

In 1970, Corning scientists Robert Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz produced low-loss optical fiber, an important advance for fiber-optic communications [45](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/markets/Optical-Communications-Market/streamlined-connectivity/timeline-1970.html). Corning introduced Gorilla Glass for consumer devices in 2007, the year it was used in the original iPhone [46](https://www.corning.com/gorillaglass/worldwide/en/illustrated-history-of-gorilla-glass.html)[47](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/markets/Mobile-Consumer-Electronics-Market/corning-and-apple-announce-continued-collaboration.html). In 2016, it realigned its interest in Dow Corning, receiving cash and an interest in Hemlock Semiconductor, and completed a tender offer for optical-connectivity supplier Alliance Fiber Optic Products [48](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2016/06/corning-incorporated-completes-strategic-realignment-of-interest-in-dow-corning-corporation.html)[49](https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/about-us/news-events/news-releases/2016/06/corning-completes-tender-offer-to-acquire-alliance-fiber-optic-products-inc.html).
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