Sinova Global to locate to Tiptonville

Sinova Global officials have announced they will invest $150 million to establish its first U.S. manufacturing operations in Tiptonville, creating 140 jobs. Based in Canada, the company will locate a new state-of-the-art silicon metal refining plant in the Lake County Industrial Park, a Select Tennessee Certified Site. The facility will be adjacent to Port of Cates Landing, which will help facilitate direct access to Sinova’s wholly owned quartz deposit in Golden, British Columbia. The silicon metal produced at the Tennessee plant will be supplied to major industrial consumers and used to manufacture silicon anode batteries, solar cells, semiconductors and aluminum. Sinova Global owns a fully permitted quartz deposit in British Columbia that has more than 25 years of high purity quartz available. With multiple uses, the company’s quartz is an ideal material for manufacturing the elements that make up silicon anode batteries, solar panels and semiconductor components, once transformed into silicon metal. Sinova’s quartz is the foundation for the creation of silicon metal, which is an essential building block of the clean energy transformation.