A report from AMI Consulting recently published calculates that the global demand for materials in the production of wind turbine blades grew by over 20% per annum in the last five years. The market for wind turbine blades has been one of the fastest growing of any composite application with strong growth in Europe, North America and more recently Asia.
In this new report the value of the global composite blade market is estimated at € 4 billion in 2011 of which approximately € 1.5 billion was raw materials. The report quantifies the market, its structure, the status of the technology and the changes which are underway. Increasing effort is being invested in designing blades for maximum power generation and this requires careful attention to material composition, material processing and of course overall design. The link between generating capacity, blade size and materials usage is discussed in detail in the report.
In this new report the value of the global composite blade market is estimated at € 4 billion in 2011 of which approximately € 1.5 billion was raw materials. The report quantifies the market, its structure, the status of the technology and the changes which are underway. Increasing effort is being invested in designing blades for maximum power generation and this requires careful attention to material composition, material processing and of course overall design. The link between generating capacity, blade size and materials usage is discussed in detail in the report.
