Pittsburgh
Corning produces Foamglas cellular glass offering water and fire resistance, high compressive strength and long-lasting thermal protection.
The piece of experimental apparatus that presented a business opportunity to
Corning was the DNA microarray--nothing more than a rectangular glass slide, a few inches long, with hundreds of microscopic samples of DNA adhered to it.
Dow
Corning is a global pulp and paper industry resource.
Volanakis,
Corning chief operating officer, is bullish on the potential: "We continue to believe that the global diesel products market could grow into a $1-billion market by 2008 as numerous new clean-air standards take effect around the world."
For Dow
Corning, global solutions encompasses everything we've learned over 50 years about the rubber industry, and turning that knowledge into solutions, whether it means simply supplying Silastic Silicone Rubber or sharing the resources of our global business network.
Navid Yazdi, director of electronics at
Corning IntelliSense.
In re Dow
Corning. In Dow
Corning, the debtor, an accrual-method corporate taxpayer, deducted in prior-year tax returns interest incurred on post-petition interest on bank debt and other capital borrowings (institutional debt).
Today, after several years of intensive training and a decade of applying the TQM approach, all of
Corning's employees are students of the quality concept.
Roger Ackerman,
Corning Inc.'s current president and chief operating officer, and the nominee to succeed James Houghton as chairman, commented in a prepared statement: "Peter is one of
Corning Incorporated's most highly regarded senior executives.
At
Corning, an organization with 100 or more years of history and a mature, established culture, the evolution has a different set of issues.
The desire to use silicone led GM to Dow
Corning, which just happened to be in the process of developing new liquid silicone rubbers for the powertrain market.
Dow
Corning STI is the nation's largest compounder of silicone rubber and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow
Corning Corporation.