New Bayer MaterialScience competence center steers developments for wind power stations

摘要

POLYURETHANE infusion resins from Bayer MaterialScience are suitable for the industrial manufacture of complete rotor blades for wind turbines. This is the result of a recent project performed by the new wind power competence center in the Danish city of Otterup. This steers and coordinates the company's activities in this field. In the manufacture of the blades the resins are combined with fibers in a mold and form a very strong material composite. The finished rotor blades are sturdier, longer-lasting and more lightweight than those produced with the epoxy resins and unsaturated polyesters used previously.