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Schott Glass Takes Innovation Award

by Tom Allen

Dr. Frank Heinricht, chairman of the board of Schott AG (right), with Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Laureate in Physics (middle) and Jan Hofer, German journalist (left)Schott’s ultra-thin glass has won the 2016 German Industry …

AGC to Expand its Supply System

by Isaac Oburu

Asahi Glass (AGC) has announced that it intends to strengthen its system to supply cover glass for car-mounted displays at its subsidiary AGC Display Glass Yonezawa Co., citing strong demand. This glass is a …

Glass Area Unaffected by Falling Unit Demand

by Tom Allen

Unit demand for large-area LCD glass – i.e., that used for TVs, desktop monitors and similar applications – will fall this year, says IHS. However, area demand will continue to rise, due to increasing …

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AGC Asahi Glass’s New Smartphone Cover Glass Enables Fingerprint Scans

by Isaac Oburu

AGC Asahi Glass, a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, announced today that it has launched a multi-thickness smartphone cover glass with a recession on its underside to accommodate a fingerprint sensor, …

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Asahi Etches Glass for Fingerprints

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass was showing a new cover glass product, on the CrucialTec stand, with a recess to house a fingerprint sensor. It is called ‘Glass on Top with Shine’. Today’s fingerprint sensors can read …

Hybrimer Will Protect Project Valley

by Tom Allen

Transistors formed on Hybrimer. Source: KAIST.KIPost, a Korean news source, says that Samsung will introduce a foldable smartphone at the end of this year. Samsung has apparently been working with Solip Technology, a spin-off …

Asahi Glass Result 05/02/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Asahi Glass reported full year 2015 net profit of 42.9 billion Yen ($375 million), up 105% YoY, from 15.9 Yen ($139 million). Turnover was reported at 1.32 trillion Yen ($10.7 billion), down slightly by …

MWC is Here!

by Tom Allen

Mobile World Congress takes place in Barcelona this week. Samsung and LG have already announced their plans to launch new flagship phones (LG and Samsung Prepare World for New Flagships), but there’s more news …

Corning Shows Ideas for Glass in the Future

by Norbert Hildebrand

Corning is a material supplier to many parts of the consumer electronics, even though they typically do not supply any devices under the Corning brand name. One exception to this business approach is in …

BOE Signs G10.5 Supply Agreement with Corning

by Tom Allen

Corning is to establish a production base adjacent to BOE’s under-construction G10.5 fab in Hefei, China, from where it will supply glass substrates to the new plant. Glass production is expected to support BOE’s …

Glass, Projection and UHD at CES

by Tom Allen

Corning, LG and the UHD Alliance have announced their plans for CES 2016 (6th – 9th January, Las Vegas). Corning caused a stir with its 2011 promotional video, A Day Made of Glass (http://tinyurl.com/8psw74h). …

US Navy Research Looks at Glass Alternative

by Norbert Hildebrand

In a recent article “US Navy research looks at glass alternative”, it was suggested that a new high tech material could make a smartphone unbreakable by using a material developed for transparent armor and …

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