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In 1985, Owens-Corning acquired Aerospace and Strategic Metals Group in Newport Beach, California for $415 million from Armco Inc. [16] [17] The color PINK was trademarked through Owens-Corning in 1986, making it the first company to trademark a color. By 1990, Owens-Corning was the defendant in about 84,500 asbestos-related lawsuits.
There are a wide range of Dutch ovens out there today, and they vary in size, material, and price. To help you find the best option to add to your kitchen, we spent months testing a total of 10 ...
Corning spun-off CCPC in 1998 and sold the division to Borden. It acquired General Housewares and Ekco in 1999. [2] [3] As part of the sale to Borden, the company was required to shed the Corning name within three years. [3] The World Kitchen name was adopted in 2000. In 2002 the company filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and underwent ...
Corning Ware, also written CorningWare, was originally a brand name for a unique glass-ceramic cookware resistant to thermal shock. It was first introduced in 1958 by Corning Glass Works (later Corning Inc. ) in the United States.
In 1981, Corning Glass Works began test marketing the cookware in the United States as an imported product under the name “Le CLAIR” rather than VISION due to a trademark conflict over the name. Once the trademark obstacles were overcome, the product finally received an official rollout in the second half of 1983 under the name “VISIONS”.
The composition of both Corning 7740 and Schott 8330 is given as 80.6% SiO 2, 12.6% B 2 O 3, 4.2% Na 2 O, 2.2% Al 2 O 3, 0.1% CaO, 0.1% Cl, 0.05% MgO, and 0.04% Fe 2 O 3. In the late 1930s and 1940s, Corning also introduced new product lines under the Pyrex brand using different types of glass.
The company was named Corning Glass Works until 1989. [2] Corning divested its consumer product lines (including CorningWare and Visions Pyroceram -based cookware, Corelle Vitrelle tableware, and Pyrex glass bakeware) in 1998 by selling the Corning Consumer Products Company subsidiary (later Corelle Brands ) to Borden .
The 2024 Owens Corning 200 was the 20th and final stock car race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series season, and the 3rd iteration of the event. The race was held on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at Toledo Speedway in Toledo, Ohio, a 0.5 mile (0.804 km) permanent oval shaped racetrack. The race took the scheduled 200 laps to complete.