Building on more than five decades of leadership in clean-air technologies, Corning continually develops new innovations for emissions control, including gasoline particulate filters. We are also enhancing vehicle exteriors and interiors with technical glass that delivers unparalleled clarity, flexibility, and durability, enables sustainable designs, and advances the way we interact with our automobiles.
Helping to drive the trend toward cleaner, safer, more connected vehicles
Fueling Automotive Innovation on our 100+ Years Journey
Fueling Automotive Innovation
Driving to work while looking through a smart, head-up display that is also tough and damage resistant. Taking a road trip with confidence that cleaner air is exiting your vehicle’s exhaust. Accessing information with a swipe and a touch on your sleek, glass dashboard and console. Corning is delivering this vision for a cleaner, safer, more connected ride with its suite of stunning, breakthrough automotive technologies.
Corning Knows the Automotive Industry
It all started when Corning applied its expertise in glass science and precision forming to develop a specialized headlight glass, which helped automakers comply with new standards for highway safety around the turn of the 20th century. Then in 1970, the auto industry approached Corning with a new challenge: find a way to reduce vehicle pollution by 90 percent in five years, to meet the demands of the U.S. Clean Air Act.
Corning’s invention of the ceramic substrate in 1973 has spawned a new emissions control industry. Thanks to these innovative clean-air products, exhaust from new vehicles can sometimes even be cleaner than the air around it. For decades our substrates and particulate filters have enabled automakers to meet ever-tightening pollution standards and we’ll keep advancing our technologies in our quest for cleaner air worldwide.
We’re also ushering in a digital revolution into your car, based on our consumer electronics expertise. Corning® Gorilla® Glass makes for incredibly clear, tough, and lightweight automotive windshields, windows, and roofs. Windshields made with Gorilla Glass are stronger, have better optics and light enough to reduce overall vehicle weight. Inside the car, AutoGrade™ Gorilla Glass can transform your center console and navigation system into the ultimate co-pilot. Think large, curved, glass surfaces that respond to touch, connect to the web, and offer a better viewing experience than conventional glass.
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Cleaner air: Engineered by Corning
Cleaner air: Engineered by Corning
Read MoreFor five decades, Corning ceramics have been accelerating a cleaner world. And our scientists keep discovering new ways to use these magical materials to improve the environment.
For five decades, Corning ceramics have been accelerating a cleaner world. And our scientists keep discovering new ways to use these magical materials to improve the environment.
50 Million Gasoline Particulate Filters Sold Worldwide
A Production Milestone
Learn MoreCorning’s newest automotive exhaust filter, called a gasoline particulate filter (GPF), is a solution that traps fine particulate matter before it enters the air we breathe. As Corning celebrates 50 years of cleaner air, we look back at some pivotal moments in our businesses journey to 50 million gasoline particulate filters sold worldwide.
Corning’s newest automotive exhaust filter, called a gasoline particulate filter (GPF), is a solution that traps fine particulate matter before it enters the air we breathe. As Corning celebrates 50 years of cleaner air, we look back at some pivotal moments in our businesses journey to 50 million gasoline particulate filters sold worldwide.
Ahead of the curve: Corning transforms automotive interior display design
Ahead of the curve: Corning transforms automotive interior display design
Learn MoreCan you imagine shaping and flexing glass without heat? Corning has made the seemingly impossible possible.
With Corning’s patented ColdForm Technology, automakers can now bend glass at room temperature. This breakthrough technology is revolutionizing auto interior display module design—facilitating unprecedented shapes while delivering cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint to automakers.
Can you imagine shaping and flexing glass without heat? Corning has made the seemingly impossible possible.
With Corning’s patented ColdForm Technology, automakers can now bend glass at room temperature. This breakthrough technology is revolutionizing auto interior display module design—facilitating unprecedented shapes while delivering cost savings and a reduced carbon footprint to automakers.
This glass can make your car as smart as your phone
This glass can make your car as smart as your phone
Read MoreAutomakers are designing cars that are more connected and autonomous than they’ve ever been. And today, the sleekest and most technology-rich automotive interiors use Corning’s technical-glass innovations.
We invited two auto industry experts to get to know us and understand what puts Corning in A Glass of Its Own.
Automakers are designing cars that are more connected and autonomous than they’ve ever been. And today, the sleekest and most technology-rich automotive interiors use Corning’s technical-glass innovations.
We invited two auto industry experts to get to know us and understand what puts Corning in A Glass of Its Own.
Right from the Start
Right from the Start
Read MoreCold-start emissions – the dangerous gases produced during the first 60 seconds or so after ignition – continue to represent the most toxic segment of the engine operating cycle. In fact, more than 70 percent of all the harmful gas emissions from a single average drive come during this cold-start immediately after start-up.
Learn how Corning innovators have intensified their focus on this critical first-minute window.
Cold-start emissions – the dangerous gases produced during the first 60 seconds or so after ignition – continue to represent the most toxic segment of the engine operating cycle. In fact, more than 70 percent of all the harmful gas emissions from a single average drive come during this cold-start immediately after start-up.
Learn how Corning innovators have intensified their focus on this critical first-minute window.
Our Strategic Advantage in Automotive Technologies
Our Strategic Advantage in Automotive Technologies
To invent and make our automotive products, we combine our deep knowledge of glass and ceramic science with expert capabilities in fusion, extrusion, and precision forming.
Learn how Corning leverages its focused portfolio of core technologies and manufacturing processes to uniquely address the automotive market.
Expertise in Glass
Expertise in Glass
Corning’s glass expertise enables safer, more connected cars through automotive exteriors and interiors.
Corning’s glass expertise enables safer, more connected cars through automotive exteriors and interiors.
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Expertise in Ceramics
Expertise in Ceramics
Ceramic substrates and particulate filters form the core of world-class pollution control systems in vehicles.
Ceramic substrates and particulate filters form the core of world-class pollution control systems in vehicles.
The Extrusion Process
The Extrusion Process
Corning’s extrusion process creates thousands of tiny parallel channels in ceramic substrates and filters to remove harmful pollutants before reaching the air.
Corning’s extrusion process creates thousands of tiny parallel channels in ceramic substrates and filters to remove harmful pollutants before reaching the air.
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The Fusion Process
The Fusion Process
The fusion process creates remarkably uniform, pristine specialty glass that offers advantages in materials like Gorilla Glass for automotive.
The fusion process creates remarkably uniform, pristine specialty glass that offers advantages in materials like Gorilla Glass for automotive.
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