Environmentally Friendly Glass
Corning’s award-winning EAGLE XG™ glass substrates are making the world’s best consumer electronics more environmentally friendly. As the industry’s first LCD glass substrates to contain no added heavy metals or halides, EAGLE XG is a massive technical breakthrough. 
EAGLE XG enables eco-friendly life-cycle product design, and offers LCD technology increased opportunities to be green before, during and after use. At the beginning of the product lifecycle, EAGLE XG removes potentially harmful chemicals from the glass manufacturing process. While the consumer owns the device, the incorporation of an environmentally friendly glass allows customers to feel good about the impact of their purchase. And at the end of the display’s natural life, EAGLE XG increases the potential for recycling.
As regulations are passed in the coming years, EAGLE XG will continue to provide superior performance in an environmentally friendly substrate that surpasses impending regulations and expands the options for recycling opportunities. By meeting current regulations and anticipating those to come, EAGLE XG glass substrates help future-proof the end product.
Did you know?
- Just how much has this glass innovation reduced the burden on the environment? You can think of it this way: if all LCDs between now and 2010 were made with an environmentally friendly glass like EAGLE XG, more than 15,000 metric tons of heavy metals would go unused – enough hazardous material to fill over 2,000 standard dump trucks.
- LCD monitors offer consumers considerable savings over a product’s lifetime. In some cases, the energy consumption of an average LCD display can he half to two-thirds that for an average cathode ray tube (CRT) television. ENERGY STAR labeled LCD monitors can save even more.