Demand for glass for flat-screen television has helped specialty glass maker Corning Inc post a second quarter profit of $611 million, or 39 cents per share; thereby beating the average analyst estimates of 32-cents-per-share earnings by the company in the mentioned quarter.

Corning's quarterly revenue figures of $1.4 billion were also better than the $1.36 billion expected by the analysts. The $1.4 billion sales for the quarter also indicated a 41 percent rise over the first-quarter sales of $989 million.