By Walter F. Roche Jr.
The parent company of Greeneville's US Nitrogen has four other facilities in Tennessee, twice the amount reported recently.
In addition to operations in Lafollette and Davidson County, Ohio based Austin Powder has facilities in Dunlop TN in Sequatchie County and Blountville Sullivan County.
When US Nitrogen announced its plans to locate in Tennessee company officials left the clear impression that products produced in Greene County would have to be shipped to other states like Ohio for producing explosives, the company's primary product.
At least two of the other Austin facilites in Tennessee have the facilities to make explosives with US Nitrogen's primary product, ammonium nitrate.
According to state and county land records Austin Powder owns 54 acres in Sullivan County and over 600 acres in Davidson County.
A request made to Austin Powder for the products produced at each of its Tennessee plants went unanswered.
Additional Austin Powder U.S. locations include Connecticut, Kentucky and Pennsylvania and multiple sites in its home state of Ohio.
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