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Company: Hemlock Semiconductor
Parent Company: Corning Inc.
Subsidy Source: multiple
Location: Tennessee
City: Clarksville
County: Montgomery
Project Description: polycrystalline silicon plant
Year: 2008
Major Industry of Parent: miscellaneous manufacturing
Specific Industry of Parent: glass & ceramic products
Subsidy Value: $479,400,000
Subsidy Value in 2023 Dollars: $682,059,595
Program Name: multiple
Awarding Agency: multiple
Type of Subsidy: 
Number of Jobs or Training Slots: 500
Capital Investment: $1,100,000,000
Source of Data: The value and the breakdown of the subsidy package are taken from: Nevin Batiwalla, "Hemlock not only solar investment 'getting hit,'" Nashville Business Journal, January 18, 2013; online at (click here). The jobs and investment projections come from: Getahn Ward, "Clarksville Selected for Factory," The Tennessean, December 13, 2008.
Notes: The state portion of the package included: $95 million to construct the plant; $6 million for workforce development (via Austin Peay State University); and an estimated $280 million in potential tax credits. The local subsidies included up to $77.8 million in property tax abatements (listed separately in Subsidy Tracker in 2011 entries for County PILOT agreements but without an amount) and $20.6 million in other incentives. The company also received a $60.5 million grant from the federal Tennessee Valley Authority (not included in the total). Overlaps with main Subsidy Tracker data: none.
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