Corning One of the Ten Most Competitive Telecom Brands in China
Beijing, CHINA, October 23, 2009 – Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) has been recognized as one of the top ten competitive telecom brands in China at the 2009 China Optical Communications Development and Competitiveness Forum (ODC’09) being held in Beijing. Corning, along with other award recipients including Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell and Ericsson, is leading the infrastructure buildup for the fast-developing telecommunications network in China.
ODC ’09 was jointly organized by the China Institute of Communications, the Asia-Pacific Optical Communication Committee and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, to trigger dynamic analysis and discussion of optical communications technology and its market development in China. Presented at the forum’s opening ceremony Corning received the award for its overall industry competitiveness and was evaluated on a complex set of criteria including 73 indexes ranging from business size, growth rate, management and business efficiency, and enterprise culture in the period from 2008 to 2009.
“We are honored to receive this industry award,” said Alan Dowdell, president of Corning Greater China Telecom. “Over the past two decades, as China’s telecommunication infrastructure has developed into a more advanced, optical fiber-based network, Corning has played an active and important role. Through sustained investment in innovation and R&D, we remain committed to providing optical fiber, cable, hardware and equipment to meet the ever increasing market demand in China for our products and services.”
“The way we live, work, and connect with each other increasingly depends on high-data-rate networks. Only optical communications systems have the capability to keep pace with the world’s insatiable demand for bandwidth,” said Mou-Tion Lee, vice president, Commercial Technology, Corning Greater China Telecom. “With Corning’s most recent invention of the revolutionary ClearCurve® ultra-bendable, optical fiber-based suite of products, Corning is leading the way to enabling a more efficient telecom network in China.”
Corning has an incomparable history in the development and manufacture of statet-of-the-art product and services for optical communications. Corning invented the first low-loss optical fiber in 1970 and remains as a worldwide market leader today, offering a full line of single-mode and multimode optical fibers, optical cable, hardware and equipment for all network applications. Corning is the most widely deployed brand of optical fiber in the world and has invented more than 40 products in 20 years using its patented vapor deposition manufacturing process. The company owns the world’s largest manufacturing facility and established the industry’s first center for fiber-optic testing. As demonstrated by the recognition awarded today by ODC’09, Corning maintains unrivaled industry competitiveness and remains an industry leader..
About Corning Incorporated
Corning Incorporated (www.corning.com) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.
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