Gurit announced that it will open a wind-blade mould production facility in Szczecin, Poland. The expansion is targeted at further increasing the company’s tooling market share in Europe. Gurit has been serving European wind-blade manufacturers with high-quality, cost-effective blade moulds and related equipment since 2010. The new production facility in Szczecin, Poland, will improve customer…
New materials and methods promise blade repairs in winter
Blade repairs in winter are now possible thanks to materials that cure in the presence of UV light and have more tolerance for low temperature and high relative humidity. What’s more, the material allows repairs that save blades that are no longer manufactured. That’s the message from Ville Karkkolainen, with Finland-based Bladefence (www.bladefence.com) a recent…
Wind turbine design: Building a better blade
Article by Craig Collier/President, Collier Research Corp./Hampton Roads, Va./hypersizer.com The first objective of most any large wind turbine blade design project is to get to the lightest weight possible. At NASA Langley Research Center, where I helped develop the code that later became HyperSizer, designs for spacecraft that include composites also have a zero failure-tolerance.…