Latest / The Manufacturing Podcast with Fexingo: Factories, Supply Chains, and Industrial Business
How a German Factory Is Turning Wind Turbine Blades into Concrete Reinforcement
Episode 77 of The Manufacturing Podcast looks at a factory in Germany that is solving one of the renewable energy industry's stickiest waste problems: what to do with decommissioned wind turbine blades. Those blades are made of fiberglass and epoxy resin — incredibly strong, but nearly impossible to recycle. This episode follows a plant in the port of Rotterdam that shreds the blades, separates the glass fibers, and reprocesses them into rebar for concrete. We talk about the numbers: one blade can produce enough fiber for roughly 100 tons of reinforced concrete. Hosts Lucas and Luna also…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.