Apple and Corning also plan to open a new Apple-Corning Innovation Center at the Central Kentucky plant that will play a role in the development and engineering of new materials for future products, the article adds.
In August 2025 the two companies announced a major expansion of their long-standing partnership to make precision glass for Apple products. Apple is making a new US$2.5 billion commitment to produce all of the cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch in Corning’s Harrodsburg, Kentucky, manufacturing facility. This means that 100% of the cover glass on iPhone and Apple Watch units sold worldwide will be made in the U.S. for the first time.
Corning is creating the world’s largest and most advanced smartphone glass production line at the Harrodsburg facility. Corning will now dedicate this entire facility to manufacturing for Apple, which will help increase Corning’s manufacturing and engineering workforce in Kentucky by 50It is the first time all Apple product glass will be made in the U.S., notes the.
“Making all Apple glass at the plant 45 minutes southwest of Lexington means an increase of at least 200 hourly production jobs, as well as some salaried employees in glass development and engineering roles,” the Lexington Herald-Leader notes. “The facility must expand, and Corning anticipates construction work will employ 100 people. The facility now employs 350.”
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