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Corning Scores Tianma Design Win

by Tom Allen

Tianma Micro-Electronics has chosen to use Corning’s Lotus NXT Glass for two new LTPS display panels. The glass has been used in new 5.46″ and 4.97″ products, with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The panels …

AGC Highlights its Uniqueness (BC19)

by Bob Raikes

Yoshinori Kobayashi is from AGC Electronics, part of Asahi Glass, a glass maker from Japan. He said that the display industry is getting more and more competitive. AGC thinks its technologies can help clients …

Germany Begins €5.6 Million Flexible Glass Project

by Tom Allen

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is launched a new project aiming to develop flexible glass for OLED applications. The Konfect project will receive €5.6 million in funding and will last for …

Asahi Glass Result 14/05/2015

by Helen Vince

Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. has reported its first quarter results, posting a net profit of ¥5.1 billion ($42.8 million) on turnover of ¥325.6 billion ($2.7 billion), which compares with a net profit of ¥8.1 …

Navy Ditches Crucible in Bulletproof ‘Glass’ Production

by Tom Allen

The press used in place of a crucible to produce Spinel.US Navy researchers have developed a bulletproof glass – or, more accurately, a ‘transparent material’ – called Spinel. It is actually a synthetic powdered …

Tags:Glass| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 18

Vision Media Management and 3D specialist Volfoni Announce Partnership to Clean and Recycle 3D Glasses

by Tom Allen

Vision Media Management (VMM) and 3D specialist Volfoni today announced they have partnered in a 3D glasses recycling program that will continue to serve a “green” initiative and remain environmentally conscious. Using its SmartCrystal™ …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Glass| Recycling

AGC Moves Production From Japan to China

by Tom Allen

Asahi Glass will build a new furnace for TFT-LCD glass substrates in Guangdong Province, China, the company has announced. With the new agreement, AGC will be able to establish an integrated production system from …

Corning Claims 100% OLED Brightness Improvement

by Tom Allen

We hear that Corning is working with OLEDWorks to create OLED lighting panels, using its Willow Glass product. Corning claims that the new OLED panels will be twice as bright as conventional units. The …

Corning Releases Data Sheet for its Iris Glass

by Norbert Hildebrand

Earlier this year Corning released a new glass type called Iris. We have reported on this new material before but at the time Corning only released general goals and the name of the new …

Tags:Corning| Glass| Large Display Monitor| TV (Television)| Vol 22 - Issue 14

Corning’s New Iris Glass to Enable Thinner TVs

by Chris Chinnock

In the flurry of news from CES, we did not get a chance to delve deeply into an announcement of a new glass called Iris that was revealed by Corning (Corning Stays Ahead in …

Tags:Corning| Edge Backlights| Glass| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Asahi Glass Result 12/02/2015

by Helen Vince

Asahi Glass Co. Ltd. recorded a net profit for last year of ¥20.5 billion ($171.2 million) on turnover of ¥1.35 trillion ($11.3 billion), which compares with a net profit a year earlier of ¥19 …

Tags:Asahi Glass Corporation (AGC)| Financial Data| Glass| Large Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 07

Display Glass at CES

by Ken Werner

You might not expect much discussion of display materials to go on at CES, but as CES increasingly becomes less of a consumer electronics show and more of an SoE (show of everything), an …