Ashland Resins to Replace Steel for Manufacture of Towers Used to Support Wind Turbines

摘要

Towers used to support wind turbines might soon be manufactured using resin from Ashland Inc. rather than Steel. A $1.1 million grant by the Ohio Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program is funding collaboration among the University of Dayton Research Institute and Ohio companies Ershigs, WebCore Technologies Inc., the Edison Materials Technology Center (EMTEC) and others to fabricate wind turbine towers from resin supplied by Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc.