New jobs coming to Hawkins County

A manufacturer with a new, cleaner way of making polysilicon for solar panels has won a $255.6 million federal tax credit and plans to invest about $1 billion and bring at least 400 high-paying manufacturing jobs to the Phipps Bend Industrial Park in Hawkins County. Highland Materials, Inc. received the tax credit award as part of a clean energy manufacturing program funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. The new facility will utilize 146 acres in the industrial park. The new plant will produce solar grade polysilicon for use in solar panels.