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President Donald Trump, beside Wendell P. Weeks, right, chairman and CEO of Corning Glass, gets ready to try to crush a Valor Glass protective vial during an event to announce a Merck, Pfizer, and Corning joint partnership at the White House on Thursday.(Photo: Alex Brandon\/AP) <\/p>\n
Corning Inc. will add 1,000 jobs at plant in Vineland and near its New York headquarters to produce a stronger generation of glass vials and cartridges for pharmaceuticals under an agreement with Merck and Pfizerannounced at a White House ceremony Thursday. <\/p>\n
This technology is not only great for American jobs and manufacturing, its great for patients, who now will have access to safer medicines and vaccines, President Donald Trump said before he joined Corning CEO Wendell P. Weeks in a demonstration of the strength of what has been dubbed Valor Glass. <\/p>\n
With a conventional pharmaceutical vial and aValor glass vial in side-by-side vise-like devices, Trump pulled a lever to show the conventional product broke easily, then used 10 times as much force without breaking the Valor vial. <\/p>\n
At one point, a grimacing Trump pulled down the viselever with both hands, prompting Weeks to joke, Really, come on, its not a test of manhood. <\/p>\n
A joint announcement by the three companies said 1,000 jobs would be added initially with a $500 million investment. Corning is also looking to build a new plant at a site to be announced in the Southeast, with a planned investment of $4 billion and 4,000 jobs. <\/p>\n
The stronger glass will allow for faster, safer manufacturing, and it is also better designed for new formulations of pharmaceuticals and biologics, said Corning spokeswoman Elizabeth Dann. <\/p>\n
Dann said there were no specifics yet about how much production would be increased at the Vineland plant that Corning acquired two years ago from Gerresheimer AG. <\/p>\n
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