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Corning traces its origins to a glass business established in 1851; the present corporation was incorporated in the State of New York in December 1936.

The company changed its name on 28 April 1989, reflecting a portfolio that had grown well beyond glassware.

Introduced in the third quarter of 2023: a high-confidence plan to add $3 billion of incremental annualised core sales by the end of 2026, with a core operating margin target of 20%.

Corning said the fourth quarter of 2025 - the plan's second anniversary - delivered both the growth and the 20% core operating margin targets a full year ahead of schedule.

In March 2025 Corning raised the incremental annualised core sales target from $3 billion to $4 billion.

In the June 2026 quarter Amazon signed a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement for the fibre, cable and connectivity in its US data centres, and NVIDIA signed a long-term partnership under which Corning expands US optical connectivity capacity 10x and US fibre capacity by more than 50%.

Announced with the Q4 2025 results in January 2026: a multiyear partnership under which Meta buys fibre-optic cable for its US AI data centres.

From the first quarter of 2026 Corning combined Display and Specialty Materials into a Glass Innovations segment and created a Solar segment around Hemlock Semiconductor; prior periods were recast.

At the May 2026 investor day Corning set a $20 billion annualised sales run rate by the end of 2026, $30 billion by the end of 2028 and $40 billion by the end of 2030, with a 19% sales CAGR from Q4 2026 to Q4 2030.