Hankook Tire Opens $800M TN Plant
ByHankook Tire opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Clarksville, Tenn. The company invested $800 million in a new 1.5-million-square-foot facility, where it will produce passenger car radial and light truck radial tires. The plant has already brought nearly 1,000 jobs to the local economy, a total that is expected to climb to 1,800 as infrastructure expands.
Built on a 469-acre site off International Boulevard, the plant is in close proximity to Interstate 24 and approximately 50 miles from downtown Nashville, Tenn. Hankook broke ground on the Clarksville plant in 2014. Last year, the company moved its American headquarters to Nashville…