Photos: Corning's Kentucky plant, birthplace of Gorilla Glass

By Teena Maddox · November 4, 2016, 12:40 PM PST · teena_maddox

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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The mixing room at Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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The mixing room at Corning's Kentucky plant

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Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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The 2,300 degree Fahrenheit melting area

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A computer screen in the central control room

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Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Where the glass is scored and broken into disparate sheets

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The robot that separates the glass into disparate sheets

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Moving the sheets of glass

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Moving the sheets of glass

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Moving the sheets of glass

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Pat Carrothers, plant manager

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Employees at the plant

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Quality control is an important step at the plant

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Quality control

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More quality control

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Quality control

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Glass being stacked for shipping

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Adding a sheet of paper between each thin layer of glass

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Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Materials used to make Gorilla Glass

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Image: Mark Cornelison
Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

See also: Discover the Corning plant where Gorilla Glass was developed

Image: Mark Cornelison
Inside Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Image: Mark Cornelison
Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Layers of ultra-thin Gorilla Glass

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Glass packed and ready to be shipped to Asia

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Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Image: Mark Cornelison

Corning's Harrodsburg, Ky. plant

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Image: Mark Cornelison

By Teena Maddox

Teena Maddox is Associate Managing Editor at TechRepublic. She oversees TechRepublic's news team and TechRepublic Premium. She focuses on tech and business and how the two worlds intersect. Teena's lifelong journalism career has included writing on s...

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