Corning Announces Launch of New Digital Hot Plates, Stirrers, and Stirring Hot Plates in Europe

State-of-the-Art Digital Displays Provide Customers with Improved Safety Features and Advanced Ease-of-Use Capabilities

CORNING, N.Y., July 6 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW), a global supplier of scientific laboratory and drug discovery products for more than 90 years, on July 2nd, 2007 announced the introduction of new CE marked digital hot plates, stirrers and stirring hot plates to its range of products available to customers in Europe. The new digital displays on these products feature: a digital temperature display adjustable in 5 degree increments and set temperature indicator; optimum digital stir speed display indicator; and an external temperature controller for precision accuracy.

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Digital displays provide Corning Life Sciences customers with outstanding clarity, functionality, and brightness through easy-to-read LED indicated temperature and stir speed settings. The new stir and heat displays allow for specific settings that enable labs to establish routine protocols and help scientists to be more precise in their experiments. Corning's new temperature controller insures precision temperature accuracy of the liquid as opposed to the temperature of the plate.

"Corning Life Sciences is constantly looking at ways to enhance our leading products with new and innovative technologies to best help our customers improve their lab experience but also enhance the quality and accuracy of their research," said Jill Veilleux, worldwide product line manager, Corning Life Sciences. "Through our ongoing conversations with customers, we recognized the need to introduce a digital display feature and temperature controller to ensure a safer environment for easy, repeatable and accurate lab testing."

For additional information on Corning Life Sciences hot plates and stirrers featuring digital displays, or any other products please contact a customer service representative at 1-800-492-1110, toll free in the United States, (+1) 978-635-2200 internationally, or visit http://www.corning.com/lifesciences .

About Corning Incorporated

Corning Incorporated ( http://www.corning.com ) is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. Our products include glass substrates for LCD televisions, computer monitors and laptops; ceramic substrates and filters for mobile emission control systems; optical fiber, cable, hardware & equipment for telecommunications networks; optical biosensors for drug discovery; and other advanced optics and specialty glass solutions for a number of industries including semiconductor, aerospace, defense, astronomy and metrology.