Dow Chemical Al-Aqsa Group expects to provide carbon fiber spar caps worth more than $300 million over the four-year period of its contract.
Turkish carbon fiber manufacturer DowAksa (with 50 participating companies between Dow Chemical Co. It has a long-term commercial supply agreement with Sri Lanka, the world’s largest supplier of wind turbines and the largest consumer of carbon fibre. DowAksa will use advanced process technology to produce a laminate of carbon fiber spar caps that will ensure the strength, stiffness and weight required to produce more efficient and reliable wind turbines.
Dow Chemical Al-Aqsa Group expects to provide carbon fiber spar caps worth more than $300 million over the four-year period of its contract. The parts will be produced at the Carbon Fiber Production Company in Yalova, Turkey. DowAksa uses a specialized pultrusion process using Dow polyurethane technology, which reduces costs and greatly improves performance. These high-strength, lightweight components will initially be available for Vestas customers in Turkey and Europe, but will also be installed in the Middle East, Africa and India.
The carbon fiber producer says its new polyurethane-based technology will enable higher power generation for some of the longer blades on the market today, as well as blades designed for future sea and land generation. efficiency.
MEHMET Ali Berkman, chairman of the carbon fiber producer, said: “As the wind energy department strives to produce the lowest energy -consuming turbine, carbon fiber composite materials can also provide greater stiffness, lower, lower weight and low cost. By bringing the benefits of carbon fiber to the industrial market, DowAksa provides the enabling technology for a new generation of wind turbine blades.”
The agreement will also help Turkey raise its threshold for local content creation in wind power projects, with laminates used for carbon fiber crystal caps in wind turbine blades also able to be produced domestically. Production. However, before DowAksa was established, these parts were imported from other countries. DowAksa will also make a major expansion at its Yalova unit as Vestas pursues more wind projects in Turkey, as well as other development opportunities in the region.
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