Inside Corning's Gorilla Glass Factory
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- CNBC traveled to Harrodsburg, Kentucky to get a rare look inside Corning’s oldest glass factory where it makes Gorilla Glass for iPhones and a variety of other devices. The factory runs 24/7 and human hands never touch the glass - only air and robots. Take a look inside to see how it's made.
In the middle of bluegrass and bourbon country in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is Corning's oldest glass factory. It was built in the 1950s to create lenses for glasses and then in the 1980s it transitioned into making LCD glass panels.
But about six months before the first iPhone was released in 2007, Steve Jobs made a call to the CEO of Corning and asked the company to create glass that could withstand scratches and breakage for a new Apple product. Before that, phones were typically covered in plastic. Corning quickly developed Gorilla Glass, and this factory went through a complete transformation.
The same company that developed the glass for the Edison bulb in 1879, is now making the glass that covers 6 billion smartphones, tablets, screens and wearables worldwide for Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony and Huawei and a variety of other manufacturers.
Watch the video to get a rare look inside the factory to see how Gorilla Glass is made.
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Inside Corning's Gorilla Glass Factory
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_Scratches at a Level 6 with deeper grooves at a level 7_
Let's get started
Goddamn Evariste, you're the new Justin Y.
@jerryrigeverything 🤣🤣🤣
omg lol
what?
*"No Gorillas were harmed during the filming of this video."*
LOL...😂🤣😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
I see shattered gorilla glass 🤣
dead XD
hahahaha damn you
Lab: drops a metal ball, glass doesn't break
Home: drops on a carpet, buy a new phone
Yeah, sillyness to epic levels
So true
True
Must be using an IPHONE and not a Droid as all Droids have been GG since they started, Iphone has only recently started to use GG and they also admit to finding a "substitute" at high production loads.
@@Hidden02 o
“Glass is glass and glass breaks.”
Yes, but better “breaks at level 8”..
unplug the connector _like a little lego_
everything brakes
Try playing with a 0.25 mm thick sheet... :-)
@@beakytwitch7905 I have a 1 cm thick gorrila glass door.... it breaks concrete :))....But this is about gorilla glass for smartphones, which is not that strong......try lexan, you'll be amazed :D
Corning one of those American companies that you don't hear too much about but they contribute so much to the economy
Sadly Corning whored out their original inventions in America like Pyrex to cheap manufacturers who now use crappy glass. Incidentally only Europe now has the real PYREX glass.
@@4realGTFOH its not perfect but it gets better with every evolution
@@jimyuuik3134 that seems like an excuse.. just make Gorilla Plastic or Epoxy.. that stuff dont break
@@4realGTFOH well the Nintendo Switch is plastic, but plastic scratches terribly easy
Well Apple made a huge investment in them for their Advanced Manufacturing Fund, but yes they're not a company you'd typically see in the news despite how big of a company they really are
I'm currently watching this and my screen is broken.
Hahah mine tooo
Oh no
Haha same
use a screen protector
They make to stronger and stronger and you still manged to brake it.
fascinating, the amount of science and technology that goes inside making this glass that literally breaks the first time you drop your phone
My iphone was stolen and I chased after the guy and he threw it and it landed on a second story roof of a downtown church. The phone only had a small nick on the metal, the glass was completely fine and the phone still works. How violently re you dropping your phone?
@@Cam4Cameron you were extremely lucky then. It probably landed on the metal side.
@@Cam4Cameron if the impact energy doesn't hit the brittle glass and is absorbed by other materials (metal) it wont have a reason to crack
@@Cam4Cameron luck
@XSAVIER busy Planned obsolescence.
Motorola: Hey, I'm gonna make the screen for my new Razor that is foldable.
Samsumg: Yeah same here, man.
Corning leaves the chat.
Those device needs python not Gorilla.
But now Samsung collab with Corning to make UTG (ultra thin glass) at Samsung galaxy fold 2 soon.
@@androidonly4388 i think it's impossible for glass to fold
@@inferno7997 just naming. Like Quick Charge, VOOC, etc..
@@inferno7997 well galaxy z flip use glass.... It's thin but still glass
The next evolution to be called king kong glass.
there are Zeus glass
And then godzilla glass
and then king ghidorah glass
Cthulhu Glass after a hundred years.
😀😀😀😀😀😀
next, make Godzilla glass, even strongest 18mm glass will break
No!!
Even the strongest material will eventually break, no.matter what it's made of. The point is trying to make it better than it was before.
Scratches at level 10
I dreaming making Fish Megatank with Godzilla Glass
it's either scratch-proof OR unbreakable, the harder it gets the more brittle it becomes, ever seen how easy it is to shatter diamonds?
For those who have never checked it out, and are passing through NY or PA, the Corning Glass Museum is awesome!
Yeah! It’s really amazing.
Yes, I have! It really amazed me and my girlfriend just how pervasive glass is used in our lives and how this wonder material has evolved over the centuries.
Corning: doesn’t let film secret manufacturing process
China has left the chat
🤣🤣🤣💀
There is a gorilla factory in Taichung, Taiwan.
Gared Albano But Taiwan isn’t China, so I fail to see the relevance of your point.
Nailed it
@@ATsaiComposer china always find ways to copy products especially in technology sector so if they won't show how its done why Chinese would watch it further😂
lol 11.4 billion in 2018 sales, they must be happy that Steve Jobs gave them that call :D
Likewise, Steve Jobs is also happy that he can sell at higher price and brag about _"the toughest glass in any smartphone ever"_ like it was their own innovation
@@rrsharizam You never know, it could be that apple helped them to innovate on the glass or asked for some custom made glass, like they did with oled screens from samsung, and as much as i know apple have some patents on the glass, look at the apple campus 2 and new yorks apple store.
@@ArthArmani There are lots of phones sold with Gorilla glass at cheaper price. So even without Apple, their business would likely sustain.
And no. Apple doesn't contribute anything to oled. They just ordered. Samsung already spent 20 billion $ for OLED facility alone even before Apple ordered. Many OEMs already used OLED made by Samsung. If anything, Apple was late to the party.
Samsung > Rotten Apple
@@kimmeex stop trolling
It would have been nice to include a comment regarding the origins of the Gorilla Glass, set in the 1950s. Some uses were discovered for the glass, like microwave dishes, but not many more at that time. So the project, and it's product, at that time called Pyroceram, was left behind.
She's talking about these incredible characteristics of this 'super strong' glass.. that's why we have to buy a $20 silicone screen protector...
WTF, who buys a "screen protector" ?
@@chefgiovanni who doesnt?
@@chefgiovanni You don't?
You guys use protection?
A case or a screen protector?
Didn't see any gorillas used in the manufacturing process.
0/10.
Remember that part they refused to show?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
It’s on another channel when they shoot harambe in the zoo for this glass
🤣🤣🤣
@si Markeyan no
I see one
All of that. So we can just put a screen protector anyway.
True
Raw dog or nothing for my pixel 2
@@MrWessiide Same😂😂
Because phone reviewers talk about how thin a phone is so manufacturers make them thinner, when customers would prefer a thicker screen that is more durable.
@@randomvideosn0where yeah i despise the whole "portable computer" industry focusing on devices thin and light profile while sacrificing literally everything else. almost impossible to find a sturdy, powerful flagship device with a great battery these days. both laptops and smartphones. Of course everybody profits from clients constantly breaking their stuff and battery life being on the verge of acceptable from day one and declining to discomfort levels soon after so clients end up upgrading much more often.
I love watching this on my phone with a broken gorilla glass screen
Get a new phone. Never lend your phone to a gorilla who will throw it and break it.
When I first heard about it, I actually thought gorilla glass was what was used in labs and zoos to protect us in case of a gorilla attack. Shatter resistance is definitely much more important than scratch resistance.
Well yes, but for handheld devices, it should also be scratch proof to still be usable for entertainment and the like
So they export glass to China,and import back end product (Phone)
Paco That’s globalisation for you
Just be happy China hasn't stolen the technology to make it yet.
@@randomvideosn0where china producing lots of patents now, was not true 20 years ago when you would have been right.
@@u235u235u235 chinese patents are just the customization of western technology
@@u235u235u235 Sure they make patents, but they'll also steal anything they can get their hands on.
Lol everyone’s complaining about broken gorilla glass on Their phones 😂😂😂😂 guys that glass is like millimeters thick and phones aren’t great at absorbing shock so it will break. They don’t market this as unbreakable glass, it’s stronger than your average glass but not invincible.
People are halfbrained sometimes. Phones are not ment to be dropped or tossed. Don't blame the glass because you are clumsy
I got saved by an iPhone absorbing a bullet and scratch free.....in my paintball park
I don't think the glass on my phone is millimeters thick.
"Everyone's" I think youre using wrong word,sometimes used youre head.
My phone fell one foot on soft laminate floor and cracked. I'm not impressed and it should be much stronger than that.
"Gorilla glasses are the strongest out there" and yes I'm watching this on my phone with gorilla glass on it with cracks on it.
Same
Gorilla glass: I'm the toughest and most durable
Nokia: Hold my drink
Is nokia a glass?
Nokia had plastic screens so 🤷🏻♂️
Holds glass of wine*
@Dio Brando he never claimed they did...
I just bought a Nokia 5.4 smartphone.
That air fusion process is so cool! And the technical animations are impressive. Thank you for sharing.
(edited) I'd sure like to know what you said wrong to be edited !! LOL
Come work at a global leading glass factory... and make wooden crates.
If your lucky you might be the person who loads the materials into the vat
Wood is very common in this kind of manufacturing, is light, flexible, reusable, and can be burned to produce energy, also is better for the environment because trees can be replanted, plastic is fossile.
Wood is a good material for handling glass
Kk
Oof
Sometimes the robots make mistakes - a sentence which had me a little worried for some reason
How far we have progressed in a short period of time is really quite impressive.
True, we transitioned from dropd=veru broken to drop=broken.
"one of the toughest glasses out there"... and yet when my ph falls 2 feet the screen shatters like its candy glass.
Because glass is glass and glass breaks
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Gorilla glass 6 has drop protection upto a limit.. others(b4 g6) don't hav
glass is still glass sir
@@cartman7570 at level 7 deper cuts lol
R.I.P harambe.
Harambe was a perv
F
Im just happy to see such a large company have this much transparency with the public.
Amazing.... and I've watched years ago the making of corning dishes from recycling old glass block windows...simply amazing
2:42 "Corning did not allow us to film the oven for the fear that competitors would figure out its secret sauce and take a chunk of its $11.8 billion in sales in 2018." _Includes a detailed diagram of oven._
#ThatPart 🤷🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
It’s a sketch. Won’t be accurate description. Just shows you the steps involved
.
@@sasankpotluri4873 r/wooosh
@@boaconstrictor4302 not really a joke tbh
And yet, with ONE fall on a hard floor, my phone's glass broke.
Watching this video, I am amazed at the fabrication process! (And the people that do the research to get the formulas right.) However...it's the behind the scenes people that fabricate the manufacturing process tools and get 'everything' to work together start to finish that truly AMAZES me!
China came up with ”Gorrira Grass” after watching this video.
ゴリラ・グラース
For 10x cheaper sign me up
They made it in China too
Lmao, plus I think the first guy who commented is cussing you out in Chinese
It's Gollila Glass, you plick!!!
To everyone pointing out how vulnerable gorilla glass is, this is because phone manufacturers keep pushing the thickness of the glass. If they used current gorilla glass as thick as first generation smartphones had, they would be virtually immune to fall damage.
Ive a Nokia Asha 311. Been dropped many times. Often stuffed in a top pocket with a shirt....with keys in there scratching the glass too. Glass still looks like new. Oh wait....its a Nokia. Best phones ever lol. Its true.
And leave it up to apple products, they'll have the glass so thin it won't last. I recommend laminate sheets over gorilla glass anyways for further protection.
Still can't get over how Gorilla Glass 5 scratches like butter.
They are useless they all break pretty easy and tests are not even relevant to real life situations
I’ve had an iTouch, and iPad and now an iPad mini. No scratches. I use only a silicone cover on the back side.
My older phones with Gorilla Glass 3 didn't scratch after so many years but newer ones got scratches all over it within a week
How do you scratch butter?
@@davidmiller8634 it's not called itouch
So you're telling me what I've been touching for 3 years was made in there?
oniy 400 employees. bummer
you have touched many things :))))) in the past 3 years LOL
Really great that it is still made in the USA, and all the equipment I could make out is also made in USA. Thanks, Corning!
No one:
Competitors seeing the furnace drawings: write that down, write that down!
If they could make the glass thicker than .5 mm your phone screen wouldnt break. Blame device manufacturers again
A great product. Every weekend when my Grandchildren have been over and used my tablet, after they have left it takes 20 or thirty seconds to clean the ice cream, backed bean, pizza and gravy residue off the screen and I whisper a little thank you to Corning.
you can wipe off those gunk not only from gorilla glass but also any cheapest form of glass you can find in the hardware store.
There is so much to making glass, thanks for making it clear.
I cannot commend you for what you've done here...
4:33 Glad to hear those robots are eliminating the safety involved :)
And eliminating American jobs for the safety of Americans.
I believe she meant to say eliminates the dangers involved !
Drinking game: shot every time your one says “glass”.
Rian Young hik
This woman has recently heard the word 'transition', liked it, and now uses it at every possible opportunity.
This is GREAT stuff, so much you can learn!!!!
Thanks CNBC and THANKS CORNING!!!
Show us some more!!!
Robots can make mistakes too because they are made by humans.
Robots can make mistakes even been made by robots.
Robots made by robots made by humans.
@@huntergoth Robot made by robot robot made by robot made by human
@@huntergoth lol
mohit sandhu so human can make mistake too because they are made by god?
"sometimes the robots make mistakes"
robots: started sweating heavily
Very cool, the plant manager did an awesome job explaining the process. 👌🏼👍
since the invention of Gorilla glass I have been waiting for a product that has not broken with the slightest of knocks - Gorilla glass has never been that glass and my daughters have broken every phone they have had with this great technology
"To make glass is not just sand"
Minecraft : ArE yOu SuRe AbOuT tHaT!?
Watching this video and my phone suddenly drop and the glass broke. HAHAHA
What about, 'My phone suddenly drop and it's glass was broke and this video suddenly plays'?
Everyone loves thier product so much because they have a hardwork behind it's success
Glass has gone a long way into technology because I remember when was very young many many years ago when people was taking sand and heating it up and then blowing glass out if a little bit sand it's unbelievable how glass has grown and become so useful in many different kinds types various shapes sizes and colours thank you much @ CNBC for a wonderful very interesting video and beautifully photographed 👍👍😀😀🌹🌹❤️❤️
It's expensive because they have to use transparent gorillas...
The reason they don’t show the machine is that they don’t want competitors to steal their business
But shows it in digital and tells the entire process?
Smart move
the process is known but the technique is not. Plus that oven is custom made so if someone can see what kind of oven it is, they can guess about what their technique is.
@@sparda9060and I bet the workers who do know, sign a form swearing to silence or be severely sued.
I appreciate the content of videos just like this one. Keep up the good work!
Wow watching this after i broke my phone screen with my TOE, thats so amazing how strong was the glass MINDBLOWN
Hammer toe?
Krabby Patty secret recipe ❌
Gorilla Glass secret sauce ✅
A moment of appreciation for the person who thought about this crazy name
Theoretically, this glass is highly resistant to scratches because your keys and zippers and coins are all metal which is softer. My Note 9 doesn't have a single scratch on it after 2 years thanks to this invention. I never let it touch sand, dirt, rocks or ceramics though. But I know it's brittle so I got a grippy case so I don't drop it.
Smoothest glass can squeak.
gorilla glass factory: no u can’t see the oven competitors might use it against us
also gorilla glass factory: literally explains the formula
So you think you can make that glass with the information in this video? LOL
@si Markeyan i- 😭😭😂😂
@@Robert-xp4ii Might be, that isn't completely impossible. AMD literally made CPU by just a pic of Intel CPU. So anything is possible.
@@Priyajit_Ghosh HUAWEI:"MAKE IT POSSIBLE"
How about the recipe? Any idea what they put into the mixer?
“Gorilla glass is tough” tell my iPhone that make it stronger
That boy Steve Jobs! What would the world be like without that amazing human being?!? I never knew he created the best glass in the world.
He didn't create that glass lmao. He requested Corning to create the glass. He came up with the idea but he never created it.
@@triliner254 we wouldn't have Gorilla Glass without Steve Jobs. Out of interest what product did Steve Jobs create?
I am working in corning company since 2018... And its awesome
JerryRigEverything : *Am I a Joke To you?*
Glass is glass and glass can break!!
Lol... Well said
Would love to see glasses and car windshields made out of this stuff.
Won't ever happen, as windshield glass is made to break up in tiny splinter resistant pieces for safety. Something gorilla glass could never do. Can't have both at the same time, that's why there's different types of glass, depending on application.
Steve gave soul to this company
Old but fresh new idea won the game.
*Watching this with a scratched iphone
G2H3LL 8 plus
*watches with my 6s, with no damage or scratches at all besides the chipped screen protector cause I bit it*
Who is that on your profile icon? I keep seeing him everywhere in comment section in almost every UA-cam video.
I'm watching this
And my gorilla glass is broken
Iwwww.
What did we learn?
There's a complex science behind gorilla glasses..
Nothing else
Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, KFC, Corning Gorilla Glass... all have their secret recipes...
Great video, where else could we find out how these day to day products are made and how. I have worked in many facilities where many of our items that we use and take for granted every day. Their is still many more to go. Keep up the good work.
How lovely to hear someone say "homogeneous" with both E's!
Homogeneous and homogenous are both accepted nowadays (both in spelling and pronunciation) according to Oxford.
How thick can gorilla glass be made ? I have an application for it. I am using a 15mm sheet of glass for a scientific instrument but it is not hard enough. I need a plain hard surface, it should be "harder" than ordinary glass. Something like a K9 crystal or gorilla glass will do. I don't know if they use a thick sheet of gorilla glass in any application.
They originally designed it for helicopter windshields so that should work
Would laminating gorilla glass over a base material be sufficient? that way you have the volume and surface hardness. Not per se bulk hardness but maybe it is enough?
I've owned a Note II all the way to the Note 20 Ultra. I put my phone in my pocket and never once broken the screen or have a scratch on it. My Note 20 Ultra on thr other hand have a beast of a glass.
Thanks for sharing
Apples next iPhone will cost $1200 but glass screen sold separate.
Roach Spray wow your so funny :/
@ I can't see why not. Its not overrated but it is defiantly pricey but not overpriced to some extent.
Wait, Gorilla Glass doesn't actually include any gorillas, gorilla products, or Gorillaz? I'm disappointed. :(
ikr man :(
They use gorilla bones
So Cool Supply Chain !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stoked they're a thriving American company!
*Glass is glass and glass can break*
*drops gorilla glass 100*
*doesnt break*
*ok nvm*
*but*
*scratches at level 6, and deeper groove at level 7*
Their secret recipe: flex seal
Alex Lu you just freeze flex seal clear lol
nope.its Gorillaz
Cool video I wish I had this as an example two years ago when I was helping with a manufacturing awareness group in a middle school, well done I would love to know how you got the sound so clear.
Disclaimer there is no gorilla harmed in this video.
And yet phones still regularly break
Imagine if they didn't use so much technology?
Exactly. Perhaps it is better to go back to plastic screen to avoid paying a fortune to replace our phone screens!
@@emrefifty5281 How you handle your phone is
My phones never break.
Stop dropping them
Wait! I thought it scratches at level 6 with deeper grooves at level 7.
That last smile worth it
Fantastic job from the Manager
Just imagine Corning developed glass by "Prince Rupert's Drop"!! I hope one day they will.
go to the corning museam of glass it will blow your mind how they test and demonstrate the glass
Still waiting for that version that does not crack and scratch so easily.
Gorilla: " I'm honored."
Lion : " This is discrimination."
Lovely how the material it's sourced all over the world and then shipped back all over the world. Crude globalization.
imagine its april fools and you see one of the employees replacing the C to P
Corning Gorilla glass is so tougher that almost 95% people apply screen guard on their screen, which is very very cheap compared to Corning Gorilla glass🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Screen guards do not protect the screen from breaking. You can google it. Screen guards are scam.
I'm goin bananas, my screen shattered from knee height drop.
plot twist:they made the gorilla eat glasses,and the poop became gorilla glass