Muscle Shoals AL Chipper Blade Sharpening

Distance and transit

Muscle Shoals, AL is 135 miles (~2.75 hrs by road) from Byler's Erin, Tennessee facility. Ship by any carrier and the standard turnaround on mail-in orders is 2 weeks.

Industrial areas and major plants around Muscle Shoals

• Shoals Research Airpark — Industrial park beside the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport. Virginia Transformer announced a 600,000-square-foot power transformer plant on about 90 acres there in May 2026, with 1,100 jobs.
• Constellium Muscle Shoals — Aluminum rolling plant making coils mainly for packaging and automotive markets. The U.S. Department of Defense selected it in July 2024 for a $23 million award to rebuild its casting center.
• Barton Riverfront Industrial Park — Colbert County industrial park in Barton. In April 2026 the state's SEEDS program granted more than $3 million toward acquiring about 70 acres, creating a 131-acre contiguous site.
• Rocket Shoals site — Former railcar plant of 2.27 million square feet on 638 acres in Muscle Shoals, acquired in January 2024 for an aerospace center of excellence.

The local industry

Southwire's building-wire campus in Florence, across the Tennessee River, announced a 30 percent capacity increase, about 340,000 added square feet and about 120 jobs in June 2023. (2023)

Kith Kitchens announced an $11 million, 131-job cabinet plant in Florence in October 2020. (2020)

Thacker Caskets stamps steel parts and assembles metal caskets at its Florence plant. In-house stamping began in 2019 after a three-year, $3.5 million investment. (2019)

Landscaping, forestry, and wood processing operations run the chipper blades Byler sharpens, up to 42 inches long.