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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bruce Schreiner

Apple deepens its ties to a Kentucky plant that produces cover glass for iPhone and Apple Watch

Apple Corning - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Apple is putting its trust in a Kentucky plant singled out to become the exclusive producer of the cover glass meant to safeguard every iPhone and Apple Watch sold worldwide by the tech giant.

Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Friday it plans to triple production capacity at its plant in Harrodsburg and increase the workforce there by 50%, deepening its relationship with Apple that began when the original iPhone launched in 2007. The Harrodsburg plant made the glass for those first iPhones.

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