Corning CFO Jim Flaws says the glass maker expects to see an acceleration in the TV replacement cycle.

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But the glass maker sees a difficult year ahead in 2013, and said it expects to install a cost-cutting plan that would include some job cuts.

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While the quarter itself was fine, the guidance the glass maker provided to the Street on the outlook for 2012 and beyond was refreshingly frank but clearly disappointing to investors.

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Britain's Pilkington announced a restructuring that will destroy 6, 000 jobs in its underperforming European operations, 16% of the glass maker's global workforce, and result in the closure of some 60 processing and distribution operations, including a big German plant.

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The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.

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Thus the genome project would come to rely on new machines from lab equipment maker Applied Biosystems, which industrialized the process of counting these DNA letters, using tiny glass tubes that sorted DNA fragments by length.

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In its heyday in the 1960s, more than 300 of the fibre-glass vehicles were produced every week and Reliant Motors in Staffordshire was once the second largest all-British car maker.

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