It’s only a matter of time before a mobile phone is fully Made in India, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said at the inauguration of India's first tempered-glass factory in Noida.
“India, step by step, will manufacture every component in a mobile phone…thereby positioning itself as a global player in electronics manufacturing,” Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister for IT & Electronics, said on Saturday (30 August 2025). A Made-in-India chip will roll out soon, he said, in yet “another milestone in the country’s journey towards self-reliance”.
India’s Optiemus Electronics Ltd. has partnered with the world’s largest mobile glass maker Corning Inc. to set up India’s first tempered-glass manufacturing facility at Noida, with an initial investment of ₹70 crore. The facility will have a total installed capacity of 25 million units/year in the first phase of production, generating 600 direct jobs. The production will be scaled to 200 million units/year in the second phase, entailing an additional investment of ₹800 crore and generating 4,500 direct jobs.
The tempered glass produced at the facility will be branded as ‘Engineered by Corning’ for supply to both domestic and international markets.
{{/usCountry}}The tempered glass produced at the facility will be branded as ‘Engineered by Corning’ for supply to both domestic and international markets.
{{/usCountry}}“Despite being one of the world’s largest mobile phone markets, India has relied on imports for tempered glass,” Optiemus Group Chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta said in a statement. “We are looking at building global-scale to support the Indian and international markets [for tempered glass]. Our aspiration is that every Indian mobile phone user must use a Made-in-India tempered glass…to protect their screens.”
According to Minister Vaishnaw, India’s electronics manufacturing capacity has over the past decade grown by six times to ₹11.5 lakh crore, with exports worth ₹3 lakh crore and jobs created for 25 lakh Indians.
The tempered-glass opportunity itself is worth ₹20,000 crore, with domestic demand for more than 50 crore pieces. The global market for the product is estimated at more than $60 billion (about ₹5.28 lakh crore).