On November 7, STRUCTeam, a composite engineering consulting company, announced that PULLWind, a strategic alliance for the manufacture of composite wind blades led by it, joined a new member, carbon fiber manufacturer DowAksa (Istanbul, Turkey). The addition of DowAksa aims to help customers build and develop carbon fiber-related wind turbine blade manufacturing businesses, enabling wind turbine blade manufacturers to obtain a "turn-key" solution for pultruded blade main beams.
DowAksa is a Turkish-based carbon fiber manufacturer with extensive industry experience, enabling PULLWind's future customers to build and develop carbon fiber-related businesses in the manufacture of wind turbine blades.
PULLWind Alliance was founded in 2016 by independent composite engineering consulting firm STRUCTeam (Coase, UK), and its members include epoxy resin supplier Olin Corporation (Clayton, Missouri, USA), and glass fiber product manufacturer Chongqing International Composites Limited Company (CPIC, Chongqing, China), and DowAksa, which provides carbon fiber solutions.
Wind energy OEM manufacturers are actively seeking pultrusion solutions for wind turbine blades. But suffer from not having sufficient supply chain positioning and related technical expertise to achieve this challenging technology. The PULLWind alliance is uniquely positioned to integrate a network of suppliers, professional engineers and technicians, provide a secure supply chain, and combine design and manufacturing guidelines to achieve faster application of new technologies. PULLWind's comprehensive expertise can quickly track production time and reduce total Blade costs and increased balanced energy costs (LCOE) are important goals for blade and turbine manufacturers.
"DowAksa's joining the PULLWind Alliance completes a key step in our development plan," said Julien Sellier, general manager of STRUCTeam. "STRUCTeam is pleased to align with leading supply chain partners who have all the expertise needed for the rapid and successful application of technology. . "
DowAksa CEO Douglas Parks said, "With a good record of cooperation with major OEM manufacturers, DowAksa is committed to continuing to bring the advantages of carbon fiber into the wind energy field. Cooperation with PULLWind is in line with our current development strategy, which is to become the main supply for the wind power industry And help them adopt carbon fiber solutions more widely. "
Olin Global Wind and Composites Marketing Director Jean Luc Guillaume said, "Olin and DowAksa already have a long-term and efficient relationship. We firmly believe that the synergy between the two companies will allow the PULLWind business to grow faster and stronger."