Pyrex

Pyrex (trademarked as PYREX and pyrex) is a brand of glassware by Corning Inc. best known for the rectangular roasters with which its name has become nearly synonymous. Pyrex was first introduced in 1915 as a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass whose resistance to chemicals, electricity, and heat made it ideal for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. In the 1930s Corning Inc expanded the brand to include kitchen products made of soda–lime glass and other materials.[1]

In 1998, the kitchenware division of Corning Inc. responsible for the development of Pyrex spun off from its parent company as Corning Consumer Products Company, subsequently renamed Corelle Brands. Corning Inc. no longer manufactures or markets consumer products, only industrial ones.

  1. ^ "A CENTURY OF PYREX". Corning Museum of Glass. November 24, 2014.
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