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The problem

Why conventional turbine blades are a problem.

Wind energy is growing fast — but every fibreglass blade is a future landfill. The industry built a $50 billion market on a material it structurally cannot recycle, and the problem grows every year.

Decommissioned wind-turbine blades in a landfill near Casper, Wyoming
78%

of decommissioned blades are simply buried in the ground.

Wind-blade landfill · Casper, Wyoming
50 Mt

Blade waste by 2050

Cumulative decommissioned blade material — and still no circular solution at commercial scale.

~0%

Economically recyclable

Fibreglass composite can't be separated into reusable materials at a viable cost. The OEMs know it, the EU knows it — no one has a scalable fix.

€10–15B

The hidden retrofit gap

Retire a turbine model and its moulds are scrapped — so owners of ageing turbines can't buy replacement blades at any price.

The blades

Made out of
Laminated Veneer Lumber.

The preferred choice for structural applications — the strength, dimensional stability and load-bearing capacity a turbine blade needs, from a renewable material instead of fossil-based fibreglass.

Hands on a laminated veneer lumber blade surface

Renewable to build, recyclable to retire.

A blade grown from wood, not drilled from oil — a fraction of the carbon to make, and fully recyclable instead of buried at end of life.

CO₂ emissions vs. fibreglass−78%
Blade cost vs. fibreglass−20%
Recyclable at end of life99%

Smart manufacturing processes elevate wood to a top choice.

Wooden blades aren't just cleaner — they're easier to build. Milling each blade straight from engineered wood turns a slow, mould-bound craft into a fast, programmable production line.

FlexibleCost efficientFully automated
01 · Material

Laminated veneer lumber — strength that grows back.

Dense Nordic spruce, layered and bonded into LVL: the stiffness and fatigue resistance a turbine blade needs, from a material that is renewable rather than fossil-based.

−78%CO₂ vs. fibreglass
100%renewable fibre
02 · Process

Five-axis CNC milling — no moulds, no layup.

The laminated veneer components are precision-machined to their final aerodynamic profile by five-axis CNC, guided entirely by a digital model instead of a fixed mould. There is nothing to tool up and nothing to retool: a new blade size or design enters production the moment the file is updated — impossible with conventional fibreglass moulds.

0moulds required
~20%cheaper blades
03 · Durability

As strong in the field, circular at the end.

It performs like a conventional blade in the field — then, instead of being buried, the wood is fully recyclable and returns to the cycle.

99%recyclable
25+ yrsservice life

The mould is a file — not a tool.

Conventional blades are pressed in giant fibreglass moulds — one per model, each costing millions and scrapped the moment that turbine is retired. A wooden blade is milled straight from a digital design, so there's no mould to build, store or throw away. Change the file and the same line builds for almost any wind project:

01

Onshore

Purpose-built for onshore turbines — the backbone of Europe's wind fleet — and weather-rated for onshore loads.

02

Retrofit-ready

Retire a turbine model and its moulds vanish. We mill replacements from a file, so ageing fleets keep turning.

03

Any blade size

Short retrofit blades or 90 m+ giants, all on one line. The program changes; the tooling never does.

04

Any turbine model

New geometry is a software change, not a new factory — a fresh design reaches the floor in weeks.

Five-axis CNC machine milling a wood-based wind turbine blade in the VB1F production hall
Voodin Blades 1st Factory
VB1F

Our first factory for recyclable wood blades.

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