During the fiber boom, Corning became the darling of Wall Street. A decidedly old-school industrial era company that specialized in making glass, Corning is getting rich of another boom — this time from smartphones like the iPhone.
During the fiber boom, Corning became the darling of Wall Street. A decidedly old-school industrial era company that specialized in making glass, Corning is getting rich of another boom — this time from smartphones like the iPhone.
…Assuming they still have manufacturing plants in the USA (New York) and not China then Yay!
It said in the article that their factory is in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Ah! Missed that! Have you ever been to their plant in Corning, NY? Kind of cool. Not too far from their there used to be Case and Zippo too…
The Corporate HQ and main plant is still in Corning NY.
Ugh, just noticed all my typos. My eyes, fingers and mind are all getting old.
Too bad I didn’t find out about this sooner. Once many articles about the market situation of a company like this surface, it tends to be too late to buy their stocks
(I was lucky and got into AMD at 2.4$
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If Corning is smart, they’ll keep their factory in Kentucky and keep the technology a closely-guarded secret. If they decide to “save money” by going to China, then it’s goodbye and goodnight – their technology (and markets) will be stolen no matter what kind of “patent protection” they think they have.
There’s just one thing I didn’t understand, when reading the “Is Gorilla in my device?” page on the Corning site:
I just fail to see the reason that causes a company to hide its usage of this product in a specific model.