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    Saturday 7 February 2015

    Corning fires up new super scratch-resistant glass

    glassmaker project Phire, both very strong and difficult to scratch a new gorilla glass-like material shows.

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    Things get tough for gorillas Gorilla glass.
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    Gorilla Glass front of Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy smartphones displays near Corning, sapphire comes with a scratch-resistant Gorilla combines toughness is developing a new material.

    Phire currently dubbed Project Development Executive Corning Gorilla glass, a composite by James Clappin and a New York investor meeting was announced on Friday. He said although the company later this year plans to begin selling the material provided few other details.

    "We sapphire scratch performance was very good, but that did not fare well when dropped from last year, you said," Clappin and president of Corning Glass Technologies, told participants at the event. "So, we approach the scratch-resistant sapphire Gorilla glass 4 with the same high resistance to damage and gives the performance drop is created."

    Corning glass for TV and fiber optics makes it more money, but for the glass company has been a major growth area. Content on Apple's new iPhone 6 iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 4 and almost 3 billion Edge Electronics, fronting the dominant player in mobile devices has hardened glass.

    Its most important customers - - synthetic sapphire, incredibly difficult to scratch an extremely tough material that will return, but to use the Gorilla gorilla glass business applications for the last year amid concerns that pressure was . GT Advanced Technologies - - unexpected in a public dispute with Apple ties last year and filed for bankruptcy protection in the end, after Apple Sapphire maker, who poured hundreds of millions of dollars in supplier .

    Corning Gorilla image of what could become a big hit while avoiding the episode has exposed a weakness in the content - although it can not break, it scratches very easily. Corning secret as possible so as to bring together the strengths of both products, both highly damage-resistant and scratch-resistant cover that was on display.

    In addition, the project Phire Samsung Corning Gorilla products and already used in several of the markets where smartwatch, the more difficult it could help Motorola's Hot 360. Sapphire has been a high-end watches for a long time, thanks to its scratch resistance and luxurious quality. Apple, too, plans to use sapphire, which will come out in April, some versions of Apple Watch for cover.


    A handful of niche phones, which starts at $ 10,800 heavy-duty Kyocera brigadier and the Vertu signature touch, including sapphires. Moreover, despite the implosion of the GT class, a better product than many analysts Gorilla continued to watch as sapphire, sapphire eventually switch to using the handset makers have expected more from .

    Corning in November as its predecessor, which offers about twice the toughness 4, Gorilla Glass Gorilla Glass 3. In addition, 25 per cent of new material can be made thinner, but in this case only gorilla as resistant to a thicker piece will be unveiled as the new material damage resistance Corning glass 3. While indicate, progress in cutting on the bruise.

    The investor presentation Friday, Corning executives first unveiled at last month's Consumer Electronics Show, the company Iris Glass, discussed. Iris Corning as manufacturers of smartphones are thin and around the sides of the edges that require minimal new TV can help build that claim.
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