MANHATTAN, Kansas – The “Little Apple” is getting a much bigger bite of the prize. This northeastern Kansas town will soon be home to a gleaming new glassmaking plant, which has secured an exclusive contract to manufacture screens for iPhones and Apple Watches.

Corning, headquartered in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, said that its initial agreement to make the glass for Apple, under a newly announced contract, had generated so much demand that it was having to expand its operations. “And where else but in Manhattan would you put an Apple production facility?” a company spokesperson said. “We’re also in talks to open a new plant in New York, but we wanted to help the ‘Little Apple’ get a bit bigger.” Off the record, the spokesperson confirmed that operational costs were much lower in Kansas than in New York City.

Signs emblazoned with “Apple Coming to Manhattan” have popped up on the roads leading into this town of 53,000, 120 miles west of Kansas City. Home to Kansas State University, its leading employer, Manhattan has long been known as the “Little Apple.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the move was in no way designed to address an America-first movement that has gained traction in social media of late. A series of Instagram posts showing the familiar Apple logo with the letters MAGA superimposed on it has been making the rounds, and one anonymous blog post, since taken down, used the words “Make Apple Great Again” in a rant decrying the software giant’s continued employment of so many overseas workers.