Apple has named a fresh set of U.S. suppliers for its latest iPhone lineup and said Mac mini assembly will start in Houston, Texas, later this year, according to a post on Apple Newsroom.
Titanium from Pennsylvania. Apple said it will commit up to $100 million over three years to Perryman Company, a family-owned titanium producer. Perryman's site in Houston, Pennsylvania, melts, forges and rolls titanium with at least 80 percent recycled content, according to Apple. The iPhone Duo enclosure uses grade 5 titanium, which Apple describes as exceptionally strong.
Camera films from Delaware. Apple is also expanding its work with Qnity Electronics, which will produce advanced films for the variable aperture system in the iPhone 18 Pro camera. Qnity joined the American Manufacturing Program in March, Apple said.
A wider supplier list. The announcement also highlights Broadcom, which is expanding a Fort Collins, Colorado, facility under a $1.5 billion investment announced in July to make radio frequency components. Apple said the multiyear agreement covers more than 15 billion U.S.-made chips. Coherent in Sherman, Texas, supplies the laser technology behind Face ID and the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, while TSMC's Arizona fab has produced more than 100 million chips for Apple in 2026.
Apple also said that by the end of 2026, all iPhone cover glass, including that of the iPhone Duo, and all Apple Watch cover glass sold worldwide will come from Corning's plant in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
Mac mini in Houston. Apple said its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston opened in August as its second U.S. manufacturing learning site. The 20,000-square-foot center trains small and medium-sized businesses on production processes such as final assembly and printed circuit board assembly design. It sits inside the Houston facility that builds Apple's advanced AI servers, and that facility will begin manufacturing Mac mini this year. MacRumors reports that Foxconn is expected to run the work, and that Apple operations chief Sabih Khan said earlier this year that U.S.-assembled Mac minis would mainly serve the U.S. market.
The numbers. Apple said nearly 100 components in the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro come from American companies in more than a dozen states, and that it works with suppliers in all 50 states, supporting more than 450,000 U.S. jobs. The programme is part of Apple's four-year, $600 billion U.S. manufacturing and innovation commitment.
"American ingenuity is vital to all our products," Khan said in the announcement.
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