Oak Ridge TN Chipper Blade Sharpening

Distance and transit

Oak Ridge, TN is 233 miles (~4.5 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 Oak Ridge

• Horizon Center Industrial Park — About 1,000 acres a few miles east of Heritage Center, former DOE buffer land owned/marketed by the City of Oak Ridge; TRISO-X (X-energy) is building its advanced reactor fuel fabrication facility here on a 110-acre site
• Heritage Center (former K-25 site, East Tennessee Technology Park) — About 1,200 acres in west Oak Ridge; DOE transferred land to CROET to create the park; 20 companies and 200+ private-sector jobs as of Dec 2016; Kairos Power proposed its Hermes test reactor here
• Y-12 National Security Complex — DOE/NNSA site in Oak Ridge that manufactures and refurbishes nuclear weapon components; ETEDA 2025 band 5,000-9,999 employees

The local industry

Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are both located in Oak Ridge; Y-12 machines and processes materials for the nuclear weapons stockpile (2025)

TRISO-X, a subsidiary of X-energy, selected Horizon Center in April 2022 for the first commercial HALEU-based fuel fabrication facility in the US; vertical construction began late 2025

Landscaping, forestry, and wood processing operations send chipper blades up to 42 inches to Byler.