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At Greenworks Commercial’s ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, local leaders, elected officials and company executives spoke on the promising partnership between the corporation and the Lakeway Area.

Greenworks manufactures over 20,000 batteries per day, more than 30,000 motors per day and aims to be an innovative and driven brand for people who love gardening and who want greener and cleaner solutions.

Greenworks’ lineup of residential and commercial-grade mowers, blowers, power tools led it to be the leader of the industry leader in battery innovation, setting the standard for the cordless-powered world.

The new facility that is located in the former General Electric building on E Morris Blvd, includes an 181,000 square foot manufacturing facility, a 20,000 square foot customer experience center and will create hundreds of new jobs for the area.

John McClellan, Morristown Chamber of Commerce chairman, expressed his excitement for the company’s new facility.

“What a way to start my 2023 Chairmanship at the chamber,” McClellan said. “I’d like to welcome Greenworks to the amazing facility. We love clean living here at Morristown and we’re glad that you all here.”

Morristown City Mayor Gary Chesney thanked Greenworks and Chairman and CEO Yin Chen for believing in the area to bring its new facility to the city.

“Mr. Chen, thank you for your decision to become part of our community and thank you for your confidence in Morristown. This is going to be a good marriage and we’re excited.”

Chesney credited the company for its clean energy and its advanced technology.

“Battery powered lawn equipment which means clean energy,” Chesney said. “It fits with where our country is headed, protecting our environment with responsible innovation.”

“I can tell you on behalf of the City of Morristown, we are proud that Greenworks is here and that our name will be associated with the products you are producing here.”

Hamblen County Mayor Bill Brittain welcomed the company and said how proud he is the company chose Morristown as its new home.

“I want to welcome Greenworks to Hamblen County and to our family,” Brittain said. “I hope you have discovered that we are good people, hardworking, have fun and value friends and neighbors.

“Our community is very happy and extremely proud that Mr. Chen and your leadership team choose us to be the home of this state of the art manufacturing facility.”

Brittain thanked the company for as kindness and shared his support for the company.

“You have already established yourselves as great corporate partners in the community and that is very impressive and I’m so thankful for that and we want you to know we are dedicated to your success.”

Klaus Haun, Greenworks North America president, gave information on the company’s history and mission.

“Greenworks has been dedicate to cordless technology for over 20 years and now we’re proud to call Morristown home,” Haun said. “We have a lot of historic moments in the past where we have developed innovative products and have over 1,000 patents. We have pushed the limits of cordless products.”

“Our objective is to make this location our commercial center of excellence for all of our landscaping products and bringing the latest technology to this town and to this state.”

R. Jack Fishman, chairman of the City of Morristown Industrial Development Board, discussed the importance of the company joining the industrial district.

“It’s always a pleasure to welcome an expanding new industry to our community and Greenworks is not exception,” Fishman said. “This particular situation we are very fortunate to have a fine company replace a major company that has provided hundreds of jobs to our citizen for over 50 years.

“This is the first industrial district that we formed in Hamblen County in 1960. Greenworks’ technology not only brings to our industrial base another major diversification of our industrial skills but their production products will help the Lakeway Area play a major in changing climate change so desperately needed.”

Fishman highlighted the company’s cutting edge technology and expressed his hope for the facility.

“As you take a tour of the plant today it’s almost unbelievable the technology that they plan to bring to our community.”

“We hope Greenworks will consider Morristown one of the major manufacturing facilities for their products because we believe we have the people, education and trainability to do that.”

Chen walked the audience through a timeline of the company’s history.

“This company started 20 years ago and 15 years ago we started our journey making battery powered equipment,” Chen said. “We were the first to create battery powered equipment in 2007.”

“Looking back the reason we are where we are today is because of our belief in battery powered equipment because we know it brings benefits to both the user and to the environment.”

Chen described their newest product, a riding lawn mower.

“Two and half a months ago we launched our Optimus Z; when we designed this product we wanted every part of this product needs to have an optimal design.”

“I rank it out of 9.5 out of 10 and this is the first time in 20 years a product has received that ranking,” Chen said. “Our closest competitor only ranks a 7.5 so our product is the best.”

The optimus z mower operates with the equivalent power of a 65HP and 1040cc Displacement Gas Engine. It’s equipped with a 19K constant smart cutting system and the PowrTraq Smart Drive System. Operators can now safely and confidently tackle slopes of up to 25 degrees and cut grass at up to 16MPH. It has a constant 19,000FPM Blade Tip Speed and is engineered for all-day commercial use.

The built-in 24 KWh battery module with safe LEP cell technology allows landscapers to mow up to 21 acres per charge and enjoy 8 hours of run time-and now fully charges in just 3 hours.

Chen thanked the community for its support and discussed the future he sees for the facility.

“We appreciate the community, our workers here in the community and our team who made this possible.”

“This is the only the start of this journey and we are going to make this operation the center of excellence for all of our products and you will see more products coming to this place