Overview
- Corning’s Harrodsburg plant will be fully dedicated to producing cover glass for iPhones and Apple Watches with the largest smartphone glass production line ever built.
- The investment expands Apple’s American Manufacturing Program to $600 billion by adding $100 billion in domestic production commitments over the next four years.
- Apple and Corning will open a joint innovation center at the Harrodsburg facility to advance materials research and next-generation manufacturing methods.
- The project is set to increase Corning’s Kentucky workforce by about 50%, creating thousands of new production and engineering jobs.
- Corning will supply silicon to GlobalWafers for U.S. wafer manufacturing, broadening Apple’s domestic semiconductor supply chain.