Corning Frequency Control Breaks Ground for New Engineering and Manufacturing Center.Business Editors MOUNT HOLLY Mount Holly is the name of several places in the United States of America:
Mount Holly Springs Pennsylvania facility to increase 40% in size Corning Frequency Control Inc., a division of Corning Incorporated Corning Incorporated NYSE: GLW is an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, primarily for industrial and scientific applications. The company was known until 1989 as Corning Glass Works. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ), has begun construction on a 40,000 square foot expansion of their operations facility in Mount Holly Springs, PA. Scheduled for completion in early 2001, this expansion will complement the more than $1 billion that Corning Incorporated has invested in increased manufacturing capacity worldwide during the year 2000. Corning's latest expansion is in response to rapidly increasing demand for its line of precision frequency control products. "The new building will contain a state of the art engineering center, allowing concurrent engineering complete with environmentally controlled labs for design and testing of new prototypes," said Howard Zingler, Division Vice President-Corning Incorporated and Deputy General Manager-Controls and Connectors. "In conjunction with the new building, we will redesign assembly lines for increased efficiency and to dramatically expand manufacturing capacity. The planned expansion is expected to increase our Mount Holly Springs workforce by over 100 jobs." Corning Frequency Control designs and manufactures precision crystal oscillators, resonators, and filters that serve as stable frequency references for a broad range of wireless and wireline communications technologies. Applications include cellular, personal communications systems (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ), wireless base stations, telecom switching systems Switching systems (communications) The assemblies of switching and control devices provided so that any station in a communications system may be connected as desired with any other station. , and WAN/LAN equipment, including optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. , test instrumentation, and satellite communications. For more information, contact a Corning Frequency Control representative, or visit our website at www.corning.com/frequency. Established in 1851, Corning Incorporated (http://www.corning.com) creates leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing markets of the world's economy. Corning manufactures optical fiber, cable and photonic products for the telecommunications industry; and high-performance displays and components for television and other communications-related industries. The company also uses advanced materials to manufacture products for scientific, semiconductor and environmental markets. Corning revenues for 1999 were $4.7 billion. Photographs available at www.corningfrequency.com/pr/photos.htm |
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