 |   | | Read about the innovations inside Environmental Technologies | |  | For almost three decades, Corning?s Environmental Technologies business has developed creative, highly effective emission control solutions to reduce pollution from mobile and stationary sources around the world. We first joined the campaign for cleaner air in the early 1970s, when we developed a high-performance, cost-effective cellular ceramic substrate for use in catalytic converters. Our invention has become the industry standard, with more than 95 percent of automobiles using advanced ceramics at the core of their catalytic converter systems. Today, we hold more than 200 patents for emission-control products and processes used in gasoline, diesel and alternative-fuel vehicles, as well as stationary applications. We continue to leverage our experience and knowledge of the converter system ? and our tradition of technological innovation ? to help develop the emission control solutions of the future. Ceramic substrates and filters help reduce mobile emissions Corning?s advanced cellular substrates are a proven technology for efficient, cost-effective and durable catalytic converters. For more than 25 years, the manufacturers of automobiles, trucks, buses and other vehicles have depended on our substrates to meet the performance requirements of automotive catalytic converter applications. Our particulate filters are used worldwide in trap systems that remove particulate matter from diesel emissions, greatly reducing the amount of soot released into the atmosphere from diesel engines. Ceramic catalysts supports emission control for industrial emission control systems Corning offers ceramic catalyst supports for industrial emission control systems that help curb air pollution from refineries, power plants and chemical processing plants. Other solutions continue our tradition of innovation. Corning?s family of Environmental Technologies products is rounded out by our cellular ceramic molten metal filters, which remove impurities from molten metal as it is being cast, and our ceramic membrane filters for liquid filtration, which clarify, separate and decontaminate liquids. For more information about Corning?s wide range of emission control solutions, visit our Products and Services section. return to top |  | |