In 2014, Arc International sold off its Arc International Cookware division which operated the Pyrex business to Aurora Capital for its Resurgence Fund II. The Sunderland factory had first started making Pyrex in 1922. In 2007, Arc closed the Pyrex soda-lime factory in Sunderland moving all European production to France. France-based cookware maker Arc International acquired Newell's European business in early 2006 to own rights to the brand in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Its previous licensing of the name to Newell Cookware Europe remained in effect. Pyrex casserole dish with the 'Toledo' patternĬorning divested itself of the Corning Consumer Products Company (now known as Corelle Brands) in 1998 and production of consumer Pyrex products went with it. Over the years, designers such as Penny Sparke, Betty Baugh, Smart Design, TEAMS Design, and others have contributed to the design of the line. He redesigned the Pyrex ovenware and Flameware. In 1958 an internal design department was started by John B. Ĭorning purchased the Macbeth-Evans Glass company in 1936 and their Charleroi, PA plant was used to produce Pyrex opal ware bowls and bakeware made of tempered soda-lime glass. One of the first commercial products to be sold under the new mark was a pie plate, and in the interests of euphonism the letter r was inserted between pie and ex and the whole thing condensed to PYREX. Actually, we had a number of prior trade-marks ending in the letters ex. While some people have thought that it was made up from the Greek pyr and the Latin rex, we have always taken the position that no graduate of Harvard would be guilty of such a classical hybrid. The word PYREX is probably a purely arbitrary word which was devised in 1915 as a trade-mark for products manufactured and sold by Corning Glass Works. Pyrex made its public debut in 1915 during World War I, positioned as an American-produced alternative to Duran.Ī Corning executive gave the following account of the etymology of the name "Pyrex": Corning removed the lead from Nonex and developed it as a consumer product. Jesse Littleton of Corning discovered the cooking potential of borosilicate glass by giving his wife Bessie Littleton a casserole dish made from a cut-down Nonex battery jar. Sullivan had learned about Schott's borosilicate glass as a doctoral student in Leipzig, Germany. In 1908, Eugene Sullivan, director of research at Corning Glass Works, developed Nonex, a borosilicate low-expansion glass, to reduce breakage in shock-resistant lantern globes and battery jars. Schott AG sells the product under the name "Duran". Newspaper ad showing Pyrex bakeware from 1922īorosilicate glass was first made by German chemist and glass technologist Otto Schott, founder of Schott AG in 1893, 22 years before Corning produced the Pyrex brand. In the past, the brand name has also been used for kitchen utensils and bakeware by other companies in regions such as Japan and Australia. In Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, a variation of the PYREX (all uppercase) trademark is licensed by International Cookware for bakeware that has been made of numerous materials including borosilicate and soda-lime glass, stoneware, metal, plus vitroceramic cookware. The latter trademark is now used for kitchenware sold in the United States, South America, and Asia. no longer manufactures or markets consumer products, only industrial ones.īoth trademarks, PYREX (all uppercase) and pyrex (all lowercase, introduced in 1975 ), were used interchangeably in the marketing of kitchenware products made of both borosilicate and soda lime glass, in addition to related accessories, for several decades. responsible for the development of Pyrex spun off from its parent company as Corning Consumer Products Company, subsequently renamed Corelle Brands (and would later merge with Instant Brands). In 1998, the kitchenware division of Corning Inc. It was later expanded to include kitchenware products made of soda-lime glass and other materials. in 1915 for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. Pyrex ( trademarked as PYREX and pyrex) is a brand introduced by Corning Inc. A Pyrex measuring cup manufactured 1980, featuring graduations in both metric and U.S.
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