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...Optical fibre is made of glass as thin as a human hair....
...The software mega-deal (aka “Project Atlas”) orchestrated by Broadcom’s Hock Tan and PC king Michael Dell could be one of the largest technology deals on record, if reviews by the CMA — which will report...
...Katherine Larson, curator of Fire and Vine: The Story of Glass and Wine, the Corning museum’s exhibition, says wine glasses reflect the tastes and mores of their times....
...“In my professional career I’ve never seen anything like this inflationary crunch,” said Wendell Weeks, chief executive of Corning, the biggest producer of fibre optic cable in the world, which played a...
...Some of their most important suppliers, including Corning of the US and Japan’s Asahi Glass, are investing resources to develop glass carriers, or substrates, for use in advanced chip packaging techniques...
...And if you need some distraction, education — or reason for cheer — check out the Financial Times’s new set of “Expert Series” videos (aka masterclass-style ESG talks) from luminaries such as Leo Strine,...
...The US chartered a plane to remove consulate officials, selling tickets to some non-government staff, including workers at a glass factory owned by industrial company Corning, at a cost of $1,000 per head...
...Smith embarked on a career in finance after a chance encounter with two investment bankers at the upstate New York home of his then-boss at the Corning glass company. It was not an obvious decision....
...The Chinese group could work round the ban, if it finds suppliers to replace the high-end mobile phone glass it gets from Corning....
...Shares of Boeing, MGM Resorts, smartphone glass maker Corning, auto parts supplier BorgWarner and engine builder Cummins were in negative territory....
...Its flagship products, including the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, contain parts and materials produced in the US or made using equipment from US-based suppliers, such as glass from Corning and chips from...
...So far, these investments have been made to existing Apple suppliers, such as Corning, which has made the glass on the iPhone’s screen for years....
...Wendell Weeks, Corning’s chairman and chief executive, had persuaded Jobs to use glass instead of plastic for the face of the iPhone....
...The fund has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars into American suppliers including Corning, maker of glass for the iPhone’s screen, and Finisar, whose optical components are used in the iPhone...
...The investment is the second to be made from Apple’s $1bn advanced manufacturing fund, after putting $200m towards Corning’s new glass production facility in May....
...The elements have combined at Akzo Nobel, the Dutch paints and speciality chemicals maker, which has rebuffed takeover attempts by PPG, founded in 1883 as Pittsburgh Plate Glass....
...Another $5bn will be put towards Apple’s “advanced manufacturing fund”, which has already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in US suppliers Corning, maker of the iPhone’s glass screen, and Finisar...
...Foxconn’s investment follows last week announcement that Merck, Pfizer and Corning would bring pharmaceutical glass manufacturing to the US, with plans to invest $4bn to create up to 4,000 new high-tech...
..., which provides glass for the iPhone....
...Karol Wight, president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass in New York, credits Berengo with “bringing more non-glass artists to glass”....
...Corning fell on bad times in part as the outcome of asbestos litigation and its consumer products division was spun off to raise capital to settle claims from litigants in the 1990s....
...It spent $50bn with US suppliers last year, including companies such as Corning, which provides glass for the iPhone....
...This had been the big idea, the product on which the glass company’s move to Corning in the mid-19th century was predicated....
...ZTE is placing its hopes on the ZTE Axon, an Android device with a 5.5in screen and dual-lens camera using mainly US parts such as Gorilla Glass from Corning and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor....
...By her early twenties, Laura’s designs were being purchased by the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. From 1975 to 1985, both were making lamps, plates and vessels for the firm....
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