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Corning in China

Corning’s operations in Greater China are managed through Corning China (Shanghai) Regional Headquarters, a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated (GLW - NYSE), founded in 1851, with headquarters in Corning, New York, USA.

For nearly 30 years, Corning has been actively participating in China’s development, working with talent and local expertise to develop and apply breakthrough technologies that significantly improve people’s lives. Today, Corning’s investments in China align well with emerging market trends in the region. Corning is a market leader in Telecommunications, Display Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Life Sciences, and Special Materials.

Corning entered the China market in the early 1980s with TV technology and consumer products, in partnerships that enabled the age of affordable TV ownership across the region. Corning is now a worldwide leader in glass substrates for thin film transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCD), used in LCD televisions, notebook computers, flat panel desktop monitors, and portable electronic and communications devices. Corning is growing with the developing TFT-LCD industry in China. Commercial operations have been established in Shanghai and Beijing and in early 2008, the company opened a TFT-LCD glass substrate finishing facility in Beijing to support emerging China mainland markets. In July 2010, Corning announced it would invest in a new LCD glass substrate facility in the Beijing Digital TV Industry Park within the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area.
 
For more than 20 years, as China's communications infrastructure has evolved to fiber-optic networks, Corning has played a strong role and provided technologically advanced optical fiber as the foundation for a large percentage of China's nationwide telecommunications backbone. In China, Corning optical fiber is the benchmark by which local manufacturers have publicly compared their own fibers in an attempt to demonstrate their quality. Corning has also been supplying the Chinese market with optical fiber, optical cable, hardware and equipment since 1998. Our optical fiber and cable products are manufactured locally in our facilities in Shanghai, Beijing, and Chengdu. Corning’s presence in the China market benefits our customers, suppliers, and partners.

Corning Environmental Technologies’ wholly owned emissions control substrates plant, located in Jinqiao Export Processing Zone of Pudong Shanghai, is a state-of-the-art, high-tech facility that provides products and services to Corning customers around the world. In addition to manufacturing advanced substrates, Corning (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (CSCL) also includes sales, marketing, and engineering operations that provide world-class service to Corning customers. In July 2010, Corning Incorporated announced it would invest approximately $125 million to expand its Corning Shanghai Company Limited automotive substrate facility.

Corning Life Sciences is a global leader in consumable glass and plastic laboratory tools for life-science research, and continues to lead the way with the development and production of optical biosensors, advanced cell-culture vessels, automation-friendly microplates, and novel surfaces for drug discovery. In September 2009, Corning Incorporated announced it would acquire all shares of Axygen BioScience Inc. and its subsidiaries, including fabs located in China. In October 2010, Corning Incorporated announced it would locate the new Life Sciences manufacturing and distribution facility in the Wujiang Economic Development Zone.