Clayco is building an expansion of Hankook Tire’s Clarksville, Tenn., plant with the goal of doubling the manufacturing facility with 2.2 million square feet of new space.
In a Feb. 20 announcement, Clayco says the work will include a multi-story structural steel mix building, as well as site improvements, utility installations, complex paving, deep foundations and specialized equipment pits . Also included are ASRS carpet foundations, an IMP exterior, CMU-IMP interior walls, and TPO roofing.
Clayco broke ground on the project in December with completion expected in 2026.
The schedule is currently being coordinated with Hankook’s equipment deliveries, says Daniel Botts, Clayco’s project manager, and will be selectively accelerated as needed to accommodate the plant’s start-up schedule and budget.
Lamar Johnson Collaborative is supporting the project with architectural services. ICT Thomasson is carrying out mechanical, electrical and plumbing work, with Tucker Jones as structural engineer and TTL as civil engineer.
The cost of the project is confidential, according to Clayco, but an August 2022 statement from Hankook says the company’s board of directors approved a $1.6 billion investment to expand the plant, about 50 miles northwest of Nashville, where Hankook Tire America Corp., South Korea. the home unit of the headquartered company is headquartered. The expansion brought Hankook’s total investment in the area to $2.2 billion. This investment includes a previously planned Phase 2 expansion to double the production capacity of the passenger car and light truck tire facility, and adds a new Phase 3, which will add capacity for the first production of l radial tire company for trucks and buses.
The Tennessee plant began production in 2017 and has been manufacturing more than 5.5 million tires each year.
In the August announcement, Rob Williams, Hankook’s senior vice president of North American sales, says the expansion is a vital step in the company’s medium truck market, which will make it one of the few manufacturers of radial tires for trucks and buses in the USA.
