After using the proceeds of the sale to purchase Ekco Housewares in 1988, Centronics changed their name to EKCO Group.
Today it is home to World Kitchen, which makes pyrex, giving it the distinction of being the only plant in the United States to make it.
The company began as the Corning Consumer Products division of glassmaker Corning.
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