What are Corning Life Sciences' key focus areas for product development?
Corning focuses development on products that support cell culture, liquid handling, laboratory
filtration, and assays/high throughput screening (surface technologies). Our comprehensive
selection of laboratory plasticware, glassware, and equipment ranges from standard laboratory
glassware to specialized plasticware such as microplates and CellCube®. For a complete list of our product families, refer to our
product catalog.
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Why does Corning Life Sciences have Corning® and Costar® brands?
Corning has been developing laboratory products for scientists since 1915, starting with our
Pyrex® glassware. In the 1970s, Corning added plastic labware to its growing line of
laboratory products. Corning acquired Costar Corporation in 1993, becoming a key manufacturer
of high quality, high performance lab tools for the life sciences. Although we are one
company, we continue to use both the Corning® and Costar® brands for our plastics products. Our customers recognize and trust these high quality branded products.
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Is Corning Microarray Technologies part of Corning Life Sciences?
Corning has discontinued the commercialization of its printed cDNA product lines; however, this does not impact Corning's GAPS coated slides or accessories. The Corning Life Sciences sales force and distribution network now represent the
Corning GAPS II coated slides and hybridization chamber product lines.
Corning has recently launched UltraGAPS™ coated glass slides. This new product features even higher quality, consistency and performance than the standard GAPS II slides. Protocols have been developed for UltraGAPS slides to enable printing of both cDNA and long oligos, meeting the varied needs of microarray customers.
Your Corning representative can guide you to the best choices in Pyrex glassware, quality pipette tips, tubes, filters, and a wide variety of high technology plastics for cell culture, genomics, and high throughput screening, and now GAPS coated slides for printing cDNA or oligo arrays.
Corning remains committed to research and development of innovative tools for life science research and as such, our R&D efforts continue to move forward.
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Where are Corning's laboratory products manufactured?
Corning manufactures high quality products in six state-of-the-art facilities: Kennebunk,
Maine; Oneonta, New York; Big Flats, New York; Sunderland, England; Monterrey, Mexico;
and Reynosa, Mexico. All manufacturing is completed under stringent product guidelines
to provide the highest level of consistency and quality. Our rigorous standards and
certification programs exceed established industry guidelines.
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How can we order Corning products?
Purchasing Corning products has never been easier. Set up your online ordering account today. Please complete the registration form.
Customers using credit cards may immediately place orders. Full Service Direct accounts with account specific contract pricing will need to establish a direct account with Corning Customer Service before online transactions can be made. You can complete the online registration form or contact Corning Customer Service directly at 1.800.492.1110 in order to establish a direct account with Corning.
Customers can purchase Corning products from any one of our more than 50 authorized distributors. See our complete listing of Corning distributors. Our distribution partners can offer our customers a variety of value added services from local inventory and service, to managed services, and preferred programs. Please contact your distributor of choice for more details.
