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to its 180,000-square-foot Commercial Center of Excellence for Manufacturing and Engineering in Morristown , Tenn ., its first in North America .

The facility ’ s initial $ 25 million investment will focus on the manufacture of commercial and residential lithium-ion battery ride-on mowers . Greenworks reports that the new facility will bring more than 150 sustainable , high-tech careers to East Tennessee by the end of 2023 with up to 400 more career opportunities by 2025 . The initial phase provides an annual production capacity of 30,000 ride-on mowers , gradually increasing to 80,000 by 2025 .

The state-of-the-art facility currently houses :

Two leading-edge automated guided vehicles ( AGV ) based assembly lines ;

A fully robotic vehicle chassis welding center with five fully robotic welding stations ;

High-precision tube and sheet metal laser cutting , stamping and CNC tube-bending equipment ;

A shot-blasting metal preparation center and powder-coating line ;

A state-of-the-art final inspection station including a light tunnel for visual inspection ; and

An exterior bumper and track test facility .

In addition , planned expansions for late 2023 and early 2024 , include : Installation of an e-coating workshop and an injection molding center ;

Automatic assembly lines for large commercial-grade battery modules for ride-on mowers and battery packs for commercial handheld and walk-behind product lines ;

Manufacturing of commercial walk-behind mowers ; and

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