Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe

A metal coating for wind turbine blades

By Kathie Zipp | September 28, 2010

Blade pitting can create unstable harmonics and decreased efficiency in wind turbines, while increasing maintenance and repair costs. In steam turbines, pitting or corrosion can cause the metal to crack. Coating the blade can prevent this. A manufacturer of metal coatings will produce a coating suitable for the wind industry.  Landmark says its metal coats are durable, cost-effective, and eliminate common delamination and pitting problems for turbine manufacturers and operators. The coatings spray or roll-on to ensure coverage that’s resistant to harsh weather.

Landmark offers coatings for the marine, wind, and medical industries.

Landmark MetalCoat Inc, established in 1996, provides coatings for a variety of applications for marine, energy, and medical industries.  The company says the resins and metals can be applied to almost any substrate in any configuration or design. The resulting surface looks and wears like cast metal without the traditional expense and weight. Lankmark’s metalcoatings do not conduct electricity, are non-corrosive, and can be finished, sanded, polished, brushed, machined, or given a patina just as any forged or cast metal.

Landmark MetalCoating

www.landmarkmetalcoat.com


Filed Under: O&M
Tagged With: A metal coating for wind turbine blades, landmark metalcoat inc., metal coating, turbine blades, turbine maintenance
 

About The Author

Kathie Zipp

Comments

  1. Mike Grimm says

    November 5, 2020 at 10:30 am

    Any performance data for its use on wind turbines available?

  2. Vinoth kumar says

    February 16, 2014 at 9:56 am

    If the metal coated into blades means, may it affect on heat ?

  3. Kathleen Zipp says

    October 8, 2010 at 10:09 am

    Kartikey, the blades are non-conductive so lightning shouldn’t be an issue

  4. kzipp says

    October 6, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    Kartikey,

    The metal coating is not conductive. Here is some more info on lightning protection.
    http://208.39.146.23/PASV/94607A828CF1A8D5E81C57D44BDAC994/
    http://208.39.146.23/PASV/94607A828CF1A8D5E81C57D44BDAC994/

  5. Kartikey says

    October 5, 2010 at 12:50 am

    Dear Kathleen

    What about Lightning for metal coated blade? Any idea?

    Regards,
    Kartik

  6. Kartikey says

    October 5, 2010 at 12:50 am

    Dear Kathleen

    What about Lightning for metal coated blade? Any idea?

    Regards,
    Kartik

Related Articles Read More >

DHI develops application supporting offshore project operations
Pearce Renewables acquires Mortenson’s wind O&M division
Ardexa updates remote renewable operations toolkit with upped security
DNV research project aims to automate verification of offshore wind turbine inspections

Podcasts

Wind Spotlight: Looking back at a year of Thrive with ZF Wind Power
See More >

Windpower Engineering & Development Digital Edition

Digital Edition

Browse the most current issue of Windpower Engineering & Development and back issues in an easy to use high quality format. Clip, share and download with the leading wind power engineering magazine today.

Windpower Engineering & Development
  • Wind Articles
  • Solar Power World
  • Subscribe to Windpower Engineering
  • About Us/Contact Us

Copyright © 2025 WTWH Media LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of WTWH Media
Privacy Policy | Advertising

Search Windpower Engineering & Development

  • Home
  • Articles
    • Most recent posts
    • News
    • Featured
  • Resources
    • Digital issues
    • Podcasts
    • Suppliers
    • Webinars
    • Events
  • Videos
  • 2025 Leadership
    • 2024 Winners
    • 2023 Winners
    • 2022 Winners
  • Magazine
  • Advertise
  • Subscribe