New industries – and more jobs – continue to cascade into Warren County and communities around the state.
Locally, Benchmark Trailers opened a new facility in Morrison this summer, with two other companies announcing plans to become operational in Warren County this fall.
Union Corrugating Company, which manufactures metal roofing, is in the process of opening a production facility in the old S&S Industries building in Morrison.
Mech Tech Inc., an Italian company that specializes in molds for tile flooring, is moving in equipment for its upcoming facility in McMinnville. Both companies say they could begin production as early as October.
The big news this past week comes from Rhea County where officials broke ground on Wednesday for a Nokian Tyres facility located in Dayton. It will be Nokian Tyres first manufacturing facility in North America with a projected output of 4 million tires a year.
The site will also house a distribution facility with a storage capacity of 600,000 tires. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2018 and the first tires are scheduled to roll off the line in 2020. They will be tires for passenger vehicles, SUVs and light trucks.
It is said to be a $360 million investment for Nokian Tyres.
The groundbreaking comes two months after Textile Corp. of America announced in July it plans to open a production facility in Pikeville, the county seat of Bledsoe County, that will employ an estimated 1,000 workers.
Textile Corp. of America plans to produce apparel, bedding and linens. The company says it will upgrade a vacant 186,000-square-foot building and start production this year.
In August, HYLA Mobile, a new high-tech employer in LaVergne, announced it will hire an estimated 225 workers.