Iowa business to open facility in Fairfax to recycle wind turbine blades

FAIRFAX, Iowa (KCRG) – New Iowa enterprise, REGEN Fiber, is opening a brand new facility in Fairfax the place it plans to recycle wind turbine blades, so that they don’t find yourself in landfills.

The corporate, owned by Travero, mentioned it has created a patent-pending course of, that was examined at its Des Moines facility, to transform the decommissioned wind turbine blades into reusable supplies to be used within the concrete and mortar industries.

The corporate additionally mentioned its course of is an environmentally pleasant method to eliminate the turbine blades that doesn’t contain releasing combustion byproducts into the environment.

The fabric is described as a reinforcement fiber that contributes to the energy and sturdiness of issues like pavement, precast merchandise and slabs-on-grade.

The director of enterprise improvement at Travero Jeff Woods mentioned they’re coming into the market at simply the appropriate time, as an rising variety of generators within the rising wind trade are reaching the top of their lifespan.

“Recycling blades with out utilizing warmth or chemical compounds whereas concurrently conserving them out of landfills or being burned helps the sustainability objectives of each the wind trade and prospects receiving the recycled merchandise,” Wooden mentioned in a press launch.

REGEN Fiber’s new manufacturing facility in Fairfax is being constructed in a piece of Alliant Vitality’s Huge Cedar Industrial Heart, subsequent to Travero’s Logistics Park Cedar Rapids.

The power is predicted to open within the second half of this yr, so giant, commercial-scale operations can start.

The corporate mentioned the brand new facility is predicted to have the ability to recycle greater than 30,000 tons of shredded turbine blade supplies per yr.

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