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Apple and Corning partner to manufacture 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky
Apple and Corning partner to manufacture 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nThe new $2.5 billion commitment from Apple is part of the company’s expanded plan to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years\n\n\n CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nApple® and Corning today announced a major expansion of their long-standing partnership to make precision glass for Apple products. Apple is making a new $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 percent of the cover glass on iPhone and Apple Watch units sold worldwide will be made in the U.S. for the first time.\n\n\nCorning 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 50 percent. The two companies will also open a new Apple-Corning Innovation Center at the Harrodsburg plant. The Innovation Center will play a key role in the development and engineering of advanced materials and next-generation manufacturing platforms for Apple’s future generations of products.\n\n\nThese projects are part of Apple’s broader commitment to spend and invest more than $600 billion in the U.S. economy over the next four years. This includes Apple’s newly announced American Manufacturing Program (AMP), which will invest across America and incentivize global companies to onshore production and manufacture even more of Apple’s critical components in the United States.\n\n\n“Corning is a storied American company, and we’re thrilled to work together to build the largest and most advanced production line ever created for smartphone glass,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Thanks to the power of American manufacturing, any customer anywhere in the world who buys a new iPhone or Apple Watch will be holding precision glass made right here in Kentucky. We’re grateful to the President and his administration for their support for American manufacturing, and we’re excited for the innovation this investment will unlock.”\n\n\n“Apple is an amazing partner for American manufacturers like us, and together, we’ve innovated and pushed the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Wendell Weeks, Corning’s CEO. “We developed and made the glass ...