Top 9 Wind turbine blades recycling startups

Updated: February 05, 2024

Wind turbine blade recycling startups are pioneering such technologies as mechanical grinding and shredding methods, chemical decomposition processes, and innovative composite material recovery techniques, to efficiently and sustainably recycle end-of-life wind turbine blades, enabling the recovery of valuable materials such as fiberglass, carbon fiber, and resin, reducing landfill waste and promoting a circular economy for wind energy infrastructure.
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Country: France | Funding: $44.9M
Fairmat develops technology to recycle carbon fiber composite into a new material
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Country: USA | Funding: $10.7M
Vartega manufactures low-cost recycled carbon fiber sourced from various dry fiber and pre-preg scraps.
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Country: Spain | Funding: €100K
bcircular provides a green technology capable able to recycle wind turbine blades and other composites that come to end of their serviceable lives and are becoming an emergent waste in order to obtain high quality fibres, energy and fuels.
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Country: Ireland
Re-Wind Network project intends to recycle turbine blades to create urban furniture
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Country: Denmark
Makeen Power is designing and building a plant to break down materials in wind turbine blades by exposing them to extreme heat through pyrolysis.
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Country: UK
ReBlade is the first specialist wind turbine and nacelle decommissioning service in the UK
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Country: USA
REGEN Fiber recycles decommissioned wind turbine blades, preventing the spent equipment from going into landfills and addressing critics' challenges that wind energy is environmentally friendly.
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Country: USA
Carbon Rivers specializes in the research and development initiatives include advanced graphene composites and glass fiber recycling.
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Country: USA
Canvus is a manufacturer of products made from ​retired wind turbine blades​. We work with communities throughout the country to amplify their public spaces using our products, legacy/sponsor program, and digital platform.