kitchenware founded 2004 headquarters rosemont illinois u.s. key people carl warschausky president and chief executive officer number of employees 3 000 2013 website www.worldkitchen.com world kitchen llc is an american kitchenware products maker and distributor based in rosemont illinois . the company began as the corning consumer products division of glassmaker corning . contents 1 history 2 domestic and international markets 3 brands 3.1 current 3.2 past 3.3 present day corningware and visions by world kitchen 4 product issues 5 references 6 external links history edit the division was spun off from corning in 1998 and purchased by borden . it acquired general housewares and ekco in 1999 . as part of the sale to borden the company was required to shed the corning name within three years . the world kitchen name was adopted in 2000 . in 2002 the company filed for bankruptcy under chapter 11 and underwent financial reorganization . as of 2004 update it has been privately held . since 2013 carl warschausky is president and ceo . the company s website states it employs approximately 3 000 people and has major manufacturing and distribution operations in the united states canada and asia pacific regions . domestic and international markets edit world kitchen products are typically sold by high end retailers catering to upper class consumers in most of asia . in china its goods are sold at mitsukoshi parkson and sogo outlets . 1 brands edit current edit world kitchen owns licenses such brands as pyrex corningware pyroflam corelle revere ekco baker s secret magnalite chicago cutlery olfa visions snapware past edit on june 1 2004 wki holding company inc. which operates principally through its subsidiary world kitchen inc. announced that it had completed the sale of oxo international to helen of troy limited for over 273 million in cash . 2 corningware and visions by corning was a glass cookware line introduced in 1982 and widely popular corningware and visions was a vitroceramic aluminosilicate glass cookware line with glass pyrex soda lime type lids . originally they were in an amber color when a cranberry color version came 10 years later in 1992 . after world kitchen acquired the brand in the late 1990s and until its reintroduction in 2009 corningware and visions products were switched to ceramic stoneware production . present day corningware and visions by world kitchen edit in 2009 corningware and visions were reintroduced as vitroceramic aluminosilicate glass cookware for use over the stove by world kitchens making it available through their outlet stores and through the web . aluminosilicate glass or vitroceramic glass contains 20 % aluminium oxide alumina al2o3 often including calcium oxide magnesium oxide and boric oxide in relatively small amounts but with only very small amounts of soda or potash . it is able to withstand high temperatures as high as 750 c. in europe it is the french glass group arc international who markets the equivalent to corningware under the name pyroflam and with a slight different design . the equivalent to visions is called pyroflam amber . world kichen and arc international are glass manufacturers but they have not the capacity to manufacture vitroceramic glass . the lids of corningware and pyroflam are not made of vitroceramic material . instead they are made of soda lime glass for visions and pyroflam amber while the white collection of both corningware and pyroflam is made of borosilicate glass . therefore the lids can not touch the stoves and fire directly but they cope with the oven if not touching the source of heat or with cooking as long as they are over the vitroceramic base which is instead made by the keraglass factory in france . vitroceramic cookware is very popular among people who suffer from allergies to some metals or chemicals . product issues edit this section s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on wikipedia . see wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for suggestions . may 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message there have been a considerable number of reports of one of world kitchens products licensed under the name pyrex exploding when in use . 3 the company licenses the name from corning who was the previous manufacturer of pyrex and who made that product from a different and more expensive material called borosilicate glass . corning manufactured pyrex with borosilicate glass from 1915 and switched to soda lime glass in the 1940s citation needed . world kitchens products sold in the usa under the name pyrex are not made from borosilicate glass but rather the less expensive soda lime glass . the soda lime glass is said to develop micro fissures citation needed and can break when exposed to wide temperature changes although it is more resistant to breakage when dropped as opposed to borosilicate glass . pyrex is made in america and is claimed to be used in 90 million american households . 4 as of december 2013 update the disclaimer referred to here no longer exists since about may 2013 . indeed www.pyrexware.com redirects to http www.worldkitchen.com pyrex where there is a modified pr release citing further responses to the negative comments of consumer reports and the american ceramic society . 5 references edit chan savio and michael zakhour . china s super consumers what 1 billion customers want and how to sell it to them . john wiley & sons 2014 . online p. 98 . isbn 1118834747 9781118834749 . print isbn 978 1 118 83474 9 p. 98 . listen to the great one start p. 97 in chapter 12 the china market the china global demographic china s super consumers world kitchen announces completion of oxo international sale press release . pr newswire . 2004 06 01 . joseph s. enoch 20 august 2008 . three years later pyrex dishes still go boom . consumeraffairs.com . retrieved 14 may 2012 . pyrex products making cooking a little easier . pyrexware . archived from the original on 2013 05 18 . retrieved 2013 04 22 . the truth about pyrex . world kitchen customer service . archived from the original on december 20 2013 . retrieved 20 december 2013 . external links edit world kitchen llc website v t e glass makers and brands contemporary companies anchor hocking arc international ardagh group armashield asahi aurora glass foundry aventas group baccarat berengo studio blenko glass company bodum bormioli rocco borosil caithness glass cox & barnard corning dartington crystal daum edinburgh crystal effetre international fanavid fenton art glass company firozabad glass industry flabeg franz mayer fuyao glass industry group co. ltd. glava glaverbel guardian industries hadeland hardman & co. hario heaton butler and bayne holmegaard glassworks holophane hoya kingdom of crystal kokomo opalescent glass works kosta glasbruk libbey owens ford liuli gongfang lzos iittala luoyang johns manville mats jonasson m ler s moser glass mosser glass nippon sheet glass ohara orrefors osram owens corning owens illinois pa abah e pauly & c. compagnia venezia murano phu phong pilkington ppg industries preciosa riedel royal leerdam crystal saint gobain saint louis i ecam schonbek schott sterlite optical technologies steuben swarovski tyrone crystal val saint lambert verrerie of brehat waterford watts & co. world kitchen xinyi glass zwiesel historic companies bakewell glass belmont glass company boston and sandwich glass company brockway glass carr lowrey glass company cambridge glass chance brothers clayton and bell dugan glass company duncan & miller dunbar glass fostoria glass company general glass industries gus crystal alexander gibbs gr nvik glasbruk hartford city glass company hazel atlas heisey hemingray glass company j. h. hobbs brockunier and company knox glass bottle company lavers barraud and westlake manufacture royale de glaces de miroirs millersburg glass company morris & co. nachtmann northwood glass company novelty glass company old dominion glass company james powell and sons ravenhead glass the root glass company seneca glass company shrigley and hunt sneath glass company venini & c. ward and hughes westmoreland glass company wheaton industries whitall tatum company white glass company worshipful company glassmakers a. h. heisey alastair pilkington antonio neri dante marioni edward d. libbey frederick carder friedrich henry clay fry henry crimmel henry william stiegel irving wightman colburn john adams john m. whitall lino tagliapietra michael joseph owens otto schott paolo venini richard m. atwater s. donald stookey salviati tomasz urbanowicz w. e. s. turner trademarks and brands activ bohemian glass bomex duran endural burmese glass chevron bead corelle corningware cranberry glass cristallo dragontrail favrile fire king gorilla glass macor millefiori murano glass opaline glass pyrex ravenhead glass tiffany glass vitrite vitrolite vycor waterford crystal wood s glass zerodur related articles list of defunct glassmaking companies retrieved 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