Asian firm selects design software to speed wind blade design, production

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Excerpt: A developer of industry-specific engineering software and services, Vistagy, Waltham, Mass., says one of China’s largest companies, Sinomatech Wind Power Blade Co., LTD, will use FiberSIM composites engineering software to help streamline its design-to-manufacturing operations so it can keep p …

Portable equipment dispenses 2-part adhesives

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Excerpt: The Servo-Flo 704-PGM two-component, variable-ratio, high-volume, meter-mix dispense system is well suited for moving a 2-part dispensing system to the point of application. An operator can easily move the equipment from Sealant Equipment & Engineering Inc. in pieces through small openings or st …

Tower manufacturer breaks ground on new factory

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Excerpt: Ventower Industries has broken ground on its 115,000 ft2, state of the art, wind-tower manufacturing facility. Earlier this year, the company’s design, the Ventower, won an advanced-energy manufacturing tax credit under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The company was one …

Research center for carbon fiber blades

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Excerpt: Low-cost carbon fiber for industrial applications, including advanced wind turbine blades, is one goal for an expanding chemical company. Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., says it will expand its renewable and alternative energy reach in the state thanks to more than $108 million in business tax cre …

Free equipment for manufacturing composite blades

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Excerpt: The manufacturer of large-scale and mobile fabric impregnators is looking for a turbine blade-manufacturing company interested in using, at no obligation, a fabric impregnator engineered to manufacture the blades. The equipment, from Magnum Venus Plastech, Kent, Wash., has been used to make larg …

NREL and Great Lakes WIND target midsized turbine designers and manufacturers

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Excerpt: The U.S. DOE and NREL have launched the Midsize Wind Turbine Development Project to help close the existing technology gap and facilitate development and commercialization of midsize wind turbines. The Laboratory is sponsoring workshops in Ohio and Oklahoma, facilitated by Cleveland-based Great Lake …

Company ready to make blades and molds

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Excerpt: Bayview Composites, a composite tooling and fabrication company in Mt. Vernon, Washingon, focuses on wind energy, marine, aerospace, and other markets. The company makes wind turbine blade plugs, production molds, and accessory molds for the wind-energy industry.  High precision tool paths …

Over 100-m reach lets CNC machine turbine blades

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Excerpt: A large and precise 5-axis CNC machine is available for cutting positive and negative molds for large turbine blades. The robot or gantry, called HSM-Modal, comes from EEW Maschinenbau in Germany. It can mill 1:1 scale negative and positive molds for rotor blades that are 50 m and more, and in one s …