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1 2021. ANNUAL. REPORT. To Our Shareholders : In 2021, our execution resulted in year-over-year sales growth in all five reportable segments, with double-digit percentage increases in four out of the five. Throughout the year, we strengthened strategic partnerships with industry leaders, entered new product categories, and scaled operations to meet growing customer demand. We've entered 2022 with strong momentum and expect to grow core net sales to $15 billion for the full year, with profit growing even faster. Our company is performing well in a challenging environment, leveraging our fundamental capabilities and our More Corning strategy to capture a compelling set of short- and long-term opportunities across our portfolio.

2 Our scientific and manufacturing expertise and our commitment to purposeful invention put Corning at the center of major industry transformations touching almost every facet of human life. Most importantly, we continue to build a stronger, more resilient company one that is well positioned to continue creating value for our Shareholders while supporting our customers, people, and communities for generations to come. Corning Annual Shareholder Letter | 1. Financial Results We lead in capabilities In 2021, we generated more than that are vital to progress, $14 billion in core net sales. This which positions us to represents a 23% increase from create ongoing value by 2020 and a 21% increase from our inventing life-changing 2019 pre-pandemic results.

3 Products, developing advantaged manufacturing platforms, and We delivered $ in core earnings building strong, trust-based customer per share, an increase of 49% relationships with some of the most compared with 2020 and an 18% innovative and successful companies increase compared with 2019. in the world. We know from more than 170 years of experience that technologies We nearly doubled free cash flow reach limits, that new trends emerge, and year over year to $ billion, with a that we must anticipate and evolve to address 97% conversion rate. significant trends to remain relevant. All of that said, our gross margin is simply not where Our long-term strategy is built on a complementary it should be. Throughout the pandemic, we have set of technical capabilities in glass science, ceramic prioritized protecting our people and delivering for science, and optical physics, combined with four customers in a complex, inflationary environment, and proprietary manufacturing and engineering platforms.

4 It has come at a cost. Therefore, we have negotiated We are leaders in each. Capturing synergies among with customers to increase prices in our long-term them allows us to create breakthrough products and contracts to more appropriately share the increased processes for our customers, improve the return on costs we are experiencing. We are focused on our innovation investment, and reduce our expanding our gross margin and expect improvement capital intensity. in 2022 as our sales grow and our price actions take hold throughout the year. What we do requires deep expertise, proprietary equipment and processes, Christopher Payne / Esto I'll also note that we continue to utilize our strong large-scale manufacturing, and cash generation to invest for the growth we see ahead sustained investments in research and and to create value for our Shareholders through development.

5 It also requires patience dividends and opportunistic share repurchases. Our and perseverance. The results are investments have been delivering high returns; in worth it. Our products clean the 2021, we achieved a double-digit ROIC percentage. air we breathe; connect people We also repurchased 5% of outstanding shares while to information, services, and increasing the quarterly dividend on our common each other; provide the stock from $ per share to $ per share. In early window through which 2022, we announced a further increase to $ per we access information share, a increase versus the company's previous and entertainment;. quarterly common stock dividend. Our commitment to and help facilitate rewarding Shareholders will continue throughout 2022 the discovery and beyond.

6 And delivery of lifesaving medicines. Strategy and Capabilities Now, let's take a closer look at our execution in 2021. I'll begin by reviewing what Corning does and what we stand for. Corning Annual Shareholder Letter | 2. As we partner closely with our customers to realize Looking ahead, we believe the industry is at the their visions and help solve their toughest technology beginning of a large, multiyear wave of growth for challenges, we unlock new ways to integrate more of passive optical networks. Project momentum is our content into their ecosystems. This More Corning strong across our customer base, and governments approach provides a powerful value-creation lever. around the world are investing to extend the reach We aren't relying on people buying more stuff; we're of broadband to more people in more places.

7 As driving more Corning content into the products they're the infrastructure plan rolls out, it could add as already buying. much as $1 billion per year to the market, starting as early as 2023. We believe private carrier and public infrastructure investments will push the market into Strategy in Action double-digit growth over the next few years. Corning We're focusing our capabilities on five key areas where is well positioned to capture a significant portion of we can have the biggest impact our Market-Access this growth. Platforms: Optical Communications, Life Sciences, Automotive, Mobile Consumer Electronics, and In Life Sciences, we're also delivering more Corning Display. In 2021, we strengthened our leadership content into the market, with all-time-high annual across each while continuing to advance strategic sales for the Life Sciences segment of more than $ growth initiatives.

8 Billion, up 24% in 2021. In Optical Communications, we've returned to At the same time, we made progress on our growth with sales up 22% in 2021. We continued multibillion-dollar content opportunity in our to build on our extensive track record of providing pharmaceutical packaging business. We recently flexible, scalable network solutions that allow introduced Corning Velocity Vials. These customers to speed installations, expand capabilities, vials are helping industry-leading drugmakers and reduce costs. increase efficiency and throughput to drive faster manufacturing of vaccines to help meet global The newest additions to our Evolv portfolio provide demand. Velocity joins Corning Valor Glass and enhanced fiber-deployment flexibility and enable our pharmaceutical glass tubing as we build a lower cost and faster deployment to rural areas.

9 Our comprehensive, end-to-end pharmaceutical EDGE Rapid Connect solutions help hyperscale packaging portfolio. In fact, our portfolio has customers interconnect their data centers up to enabled the delivery of more than 5 billion doses 70% faster than legacy cabling methods. In addition, of COVID-19 vaccines to date. our Everon Millimeter-Wave indoor small-cell systems deliver 5G-ready coverage in high-density Additionally, in early 2022, West Pharmaceutical environments, such as office buildings, hotels, Services, a global leader in injectable-drug hospitals, and classrooms. We also began working administration, announced a long-term supply even more closely with industry players at the regional agreement and technology investment in Corning to and national levels, including expanding our longtime enhance injectable-drug packaging systems.

10 Collaboration with AT&T. In total, we've entered this year with a significantly We continue to see strong demand for our premium larger global footprint in Life Sciences and expect products, including Ceramic Shield and Corning . continued growth. Gorilla Glass Victus . In 2021, more than 125 device models including smartphones, wearables, tablets, In Automotive, 2021 sales in our Environmental and laptops launched featuring Corning Gorilla . Technologies segment increased 16% to reach an all- Glass. We also expanded our capabilities into a new time-high $ billion, despite lower car sales related to product category by introducing Corning Gorilla . semiconductor chip shortages. Glass with DX and Corning Gorilla Glass with DX+ to optimize mobile phone cameras, creating an attractive Daimler launched the MBUX Hyperscreen in the opportunity to increase our revenue per device.