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Case Study: Developing an Optimized Flow Chemistry Industrial Scale Process

April 2024
Learn how BASF, one of the largest chemical producers in the world, and Corning AFR collaborated to seamlessly scale-up a new chemical synthesis for the agro-chemical industry from laboratory equipment to pilot scale production and produce hundreds of kilograms of this new chemical compound in just eight weeks. 

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Corning and Ulsan Technopark Announce the First Advanced-Flow Reactor Application Qualified Lab in South Korea

April 2024
This collaboration will allow Corning and Ulsan to expand continuous-flow process development capabilities in South Korea’s fine and specialty chemical spaces while also meeting the growing needs of the performance materials market focused on renewable energy.
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Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors and Xiamen University Celebrate the establishment of Application Qualified Lab

November 2023 
Corning Incorporated and Xiamen University announced the establishment of the Xiamen University-Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors (AFR) Application Qualified Lab (AQL) at Xiamen University’s College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering located in the Fujian province.

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Oxiran and Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors Celebrate Establishment of Application Qualified Lab

July 2023

Oxiran Holding Group and Corning Incorporated announced the establishment of the Oxiran-Corning® Advanced-Flow Reactors Application Qualified Lab, which is the first AQL to focus on ethoxylation, a highly complex production process that helps create household cleaning products and pharmaceuticals.

Corning Collaborates with Laurus Labs on G4 Reactor Installation

July 2023

Corning and Laurus Labs recently celebrated the installation of Corning® Advanced-Flow Reactors (AFR) G4 unit at Laurus’ state-of-the-art Visakhapatnam facility to help meet growing customer demands.

Corning Introduces Chemical Processing Innovations Designed to Advance the Flow Chemistry Industry

June 2023

Corning introduced the latest line of Advanced-Flow Reactor products, Corning Lab Reactor System 2, to offer customers a more efficient way to develop chemical flow processes using inherently safer technology.

Corning Joins Flow Chemistry Technology Hub

May 2023

Corning Incorporated today announced that it will join the Flow Chemistry Technology Hub at Dr. Reddy’s Institute of Life Sciences – a not-for-profit research institute in India, focused on accelerating adoption of flow chemistry in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. 
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Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors and Chimie Paristech - PSL celebrate opening of AFR Qualified Lab

March 2023

Corning AFR and Chimie Paristech – PSL recently celebrated the opening of the AFR Application Qualified Lab in Paris. Application qualified labs enable customers to effectively access continuous-flow demonstrations, experimental trials, feasibility testing, and chemical reaction process development.
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Flipping the chemical engineering world upside down

August 2022

Yi Jiang believes Corning’s Advanced-Flow™ Reactors are a turning point in chemical production – so much so that he founded an academy that changes the way chemical processing is taught.

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Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors Announces New Collaboration

April 2022

Corning AFR collaborates with Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Sun Pharma), India's top pharmaceutical company, integrating multiple G4 silicon carbide (SiC) reactors in their API manufacturing facility in Toansa.

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Corning and Microinnova Celebrate Opening of Advanced-Flow™ Reactor Qualified Lab

September 2021

Corning Incorporated and Microinnova recently celebrated the opening of the Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors (AFR) Application Qualified Lab (AQL) at their facility near Graz. Application qualified labs enable AFR customers to effectively access continuous-flow demonstrations, experimental trials, feasibility testing, and chemical reaction process development.

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Corning Disruptive Innovation: Continuous Flow Technology

January 2021

China Chemical Industry News (CCIN) named Corning AFR as one of the role models of China’s thirteenth Five-Year Plan, showcasing the business’ achievements and value to China’s growth over the past five years. This is based on an article published by CCIN in Chinese, December 28, 2020.

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Continuous Innovation: Corning Reactor Industrial Progress Report and G5 Reactor New Product Release

June 2020

Corning recently announced that its Advanced-Flow™ Reactors (AFR) business has made significant progress advancing its flow reactor technology for large-scale industrial production of chemicals and active pharmaceutical ingredients.

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Advanced-Flow Reactors Workshop

April 2020

Corning's "Stepping into Advanced-Flow Reactors" workshop highlights the fundamentals of flow chemistry and the advantages of our continuous flow reactor technologies and engineering services.

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Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors address evolving public health needs by providing rapid and efficient scale-up of air disinfectant production

March 2020
Corning Incorporated teams in China and France recently delivered a shipment of Corning® Advanced-Flow™ Reactors to a customer in China, to enable efficient production of their air disinfectant, peracetic acid (PAA).

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Microreaction Technology Promotes Safer, Sustainable Development of the Chemical Industry

August 2019
Interview with Dr. Yi Jiang, president and general manager of Corning Advanced-Flow Reactor Technology Co., Ltd. Based on an article published by China Chemical Industry News (CCIN) in Chinese by Mr. Hongying Chen on July 25, 2019.

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Korea Chem 2019

April 2019
Corning AFR showcased its reactor technologies for approximately 35,000 chemical industry professionals at Korea Chem 2019.

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AFR Recognized with “Local Development Champion” Award in China

April 2019
Corning® Advanced-Flow™ reactors (AFR) received the “Local Development Champion” Award from the China Petroleum & Chemical Industry Federation and China Chemical Industry News for excellence and success in promoting technology and business development in China as an MNC (multinational corporation).

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Corning Hosts Ninth Annual Corning Reactor Technology Conference

March 2019
The company announced at the event that it will be establishing a new headquarters in Changzhou, China for its Advanced-Flow™ Reactors business.

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Corning and Fuzhou University Celebrate Opening of Advanced-Flow™ Reactor Qualified Lab

October 2018
Corning’s latest AFR Qualified Lab reaches a new regional demographic of customers and helps to educate the next generation of chemical engineers.

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Corning Hosts Reactor Technology Conference in India

September 2018
Over thirty companies connected during the inaugural AFR Reactor Technology Conference in Hyderabad, India.

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ACHEMA 2018

June 2018
AFR introduced its new G3 photo reactor, showcased its entire product portfolio, and demonstrated products in collaboration with Magritek and Zaiput Flow Technologies.

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AFR Holds Eighth Annual Corning Reactor Technology Conference

May 2018
More than 600 professionals from the pharmaceutical, fine, and specialty chemical processing industries, as well as universities and government agencies attended the eighth Corning Reactor Technology Annual Conference focused on integrated continuous manufacturing platforms of lab and production scales.

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Corning's Dr. Yi Jiang Receives Industry Recognition from CPCIF

January 2018
Jiang was recognized as one of the 2017 recipients of the, ‘Influential Leaders of China's Petroleum and Chemical Industry' award for his leadership in serving the China chemical industry with Corning’s Advanced-Flow™ Reactor Technology.

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Corning AFR Signs Distribution Agreement with Zaiput Flow Technologies

June 2017
Corning and Zaiput Flow Technologies signed a distribution agreement at the2017 InformEx Tradeshow that established Corning as the exclusive distributor of Zaiput’s liquid-liquid phase separator and back-pressure regulators in the Greater China region.

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First Industrial Use of AFR Technology in Italy

March 2017
Angelini Pharma installed a G4 reactor system for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) production in their Aprilia facility.

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Corning Collaborates with Zaiput Flow Technologies and Magritek

2016
The three companies presented an integrated continuous processing system at the 8th Symposium on Continuous Flow Reactor Technology for Industrial Applications.

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Corning AFR Expands Presence in India

2016
Anupam Rasayan India Limited (ARIL) was the first customer in India to integrate the G4 reactor for continuous manufacturing of their products.

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Corning AFR Recognized by FICCI

2016
Corning's Advanced-Flow Reactor Technology received the ‘Best Contribution to Academia’ Award at the 2016 India Chem tradeshow.

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AFR Expands Footprint in North America

2016
Corning’s Advanced Flow™ (AFR) technology expanded its footprint in North America through its relationship with Snapdragon Chemistry, Inc. to develop flow chemistry solutions to help customers create new or improved processes for chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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China Praises Corning's Economic Impact

2015
China's chemical industry recognized Corning as a leading innovator and entrepreneur at its Twelfth Five-Year Plan Finale award ceremony

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Advanced-Flow™ reactors: from lab to full-scale manufacturing

2015
Employing its more than 165 years of experience in materials science and process manufacturing, Corning has created industrial-scale reactors that can provide continuous process production capacity for pharmaceutical chemicals, base chemicals, and fine and specialty chemicals. 

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