Corning Partners with LG to Expand Automotive Interior Design Possibilities
January 07, 2020 at 05:00 pm
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Corning Incorporated announced its collaboration with LG Electronics Vehicle Component Solutions to industrialize Corning ColdForm Technology for curved automotive interior display systems. This announcement comes as the industry navigates new trends toward seamless connectivity with constant synchronization of mobile devices, dashboards, and home information and entertainment systems. Working together, the companies are bringing more economical and high-quality curved display modules to the automotive market. The display evolution in automotive interiors mirrors that of consumer electronics with users demanding larger, curved, and more immersive display designs. Corning’s patented ColdForm Technology provides a cost-effective processing solution versus conventional hot-formed methods while sustaining exceptional optical performance and Corning’s signature durability with AutoGrade Gorilla Glass.
Corning Incorporated is the world leader of the production and the marketing of substrata of glass and ceramic of specialty. Net sales break down by market as follows:
- telecommunications (29.6%): products of fiber optical, cables, etc. for networks of communication;
- electronic large public (26%): glass substrata intended for screens of televisions sets LCD, PC and laptops;
- environment (13%): substrata of ceramic and filters intended for systems fight against vehicles emissions;
- life science (7.1%): in particular optical biosensors for pharmaceutical research;
- other (24.3%): solutions based on plastic and glass of specialty intended notably to the sectors of semiconductors, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (32.7%), North America (3%), Asia/Pacific (51.5%), Europe (11.3%) and other (1.5%).