Owens Corning is an American company that develops and produces insulation, roofing, and fiberglas composites and related materials and products. It is the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglas composites. It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois. The company employs approximately 19,000 people around the world. Owens Corning has been a Fortune 500 company every year since the list was created in 1955. The Pink Panther acts as the company's mascot and appears in most of their advertisements.
Fiberglas production in 1942
Owens Corning headquarters
Corning Incorporated is an American multinational technology company that specializes in specialty glass, ceramics, and related materials and technologies including advanced optics, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was named Corning Glass Works until 1989. Corning divested its consumer product lines in 1998 by selling the Corning Consumer Products Company subsidiary to Borden.
Headquarters, with Little Joe Tower in the background
One of the first optic headlamp lenses, the Corning Conaphore. Selective yellow "Noviol" glass version shown.
1917 advertisement for the Corning Conaphore headlamp lens shown above
Corning's Gorilla Glass is used on the Nokia N8's screen.