How Corning's Gorilla Glass Tech Helped Deliver Covid Vaccines

Corning just opened a new pharmaceutical vial manufacturing factory in Durham, North Carolina, where it said it can produce 500 million glass vials per year to deliver Covid-19 vaccines and other drugs to the U.S. and abroad. The factory was developed and deployed in record time thanks in part to the $204 million funding from the federal government as a part of Operation Warp Speed.

Corning said its vials have been used for more than three billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines over the past 18 months.

Corning CEO Wendell Weeks plans to grow the pharmaceutical side of the business and said it will be "billions of dollars of opportunity" for the glass manufacturing giant.

Corning's vials borrow technology from Gorilla Glass, made for Apple iPhones, which makes them less likely to break or scratch and able to withstand the super cold temperatures needed for storing the Covid vaccine.

Watch the video to get a first look inside Corning's new factory and to see how vaccine vials are made.

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How Corning's Gorilla Glass Tech Helped Deliver Covid Vaccines

[mybiz]

NBC's non-stop sales pitch for everything injection oriented is pure pathetic by now.

[uuu]

translation: socialized costs paid by gov't, then privatize the gains/profits to shareholders and executives. lol

[marjoriemyers]

This is a great company. I'm sure they have the technology on how to take care of any waste products. They've already had there hand slapped for illegal dumping. They've had to clean up that mess with a huge fine. And the gorilla glass is not on all phones. This is a very high tech company that takes care of it's own.

[noneshere]

☝The same company who gave us toxic Tfal cookware .

[Hans-gbmv]

So, the market is in the hands of non-US companies thus the US government paid for the plant, took the risk of the financing and the profits go to a private company... . A prime example of public risk and privatized profits

[CommanderTexas]

This is good for American industry, jobs, and Innovation. Sad too see people bashing a great American company in the comments!

[AdamBechtol]

Creepy confidence, for this plain ol' advertisement called "news"

[crndg]

"Now back to our regular scheduled brainwashing *cough* programming"

[AvanaVana]

The Corning CEO sounds like Alec Baldwin doing his trump impression.

[seansean]

2021 war on drugs: "We'll fight you until you take our drug"

[Norvvid]

Their glassblowers must be really tiny.

[mikebrian]

I see they had to take away the dislike button due to 10:1 negative ratio

[eagleeye]

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I’m still a little confused.
Does the “C” stand for Communist or for China.

[jamesbondero]

This is corporate welfare! Meanwhile, congress debates giving citizens social benefits like, paid family leave, healthcare for all, tuition free college, infrastructure etc. Now they're getting ready to pass a $760 billion defense bill. We just got out of a war in Afghanistan. Why isn't the defense budget going down?

[asterixky]

Do they make lenses for corrective glasses too?

[zyladd]

video summary: in short the coating allows for greater operational efficiency through faster filling speeds

[MendAmar]

Scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7

[cyrustakem]

Ffs, "used on iphones, used on iphones", it is used on most phones, just say smartphones, why the free publicity?

[doomsday]

So this is another commercial too? So no news today?😂

[xungnham]

Why isn't there a reuse/recycle program with these vials?