Corning invests in its infrastructure

Over the next three years, Corning Incorporated (Corning, NY) will invest $750 million to increase its optical-fiber manufacturing capabilities by more than 50%. Equipment enhancements or plant expansions will occur at the company's Wilmington and Concord plants in North Carolina and its Noble Park plant in Victoria, Australia. The company also is significantly increasing the thin-film-filter manufacturing capability of its Marlborough, MA, facility. As a result, Corning will increase shipment of its 200- and 100-GHz dense wavelength-division multiplexing devices.—W. Conard Holton