Will automakers go for Gorilla Glass?

Corning's Gorilla Glass acoustic partition improves sound isolation in BMW's i8 plug-in hybrid.

August 29, 2015 05:00 AM

Gorilla Glass, the tough, lightweight, scratch-resistant glass made by Corning Inc. and used on the screens of billions of smartphones and tablets, is getting closer to being used in windshields and other glass apertures of production vehicles.

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