Apple and Corning partner to manufacture 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple® 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. Corning is creating the