STARRAG USA’s new LX021 turbine blade machine is an application-based design that maximizes part rigidity with its spindle and sub-spindle part clamping. The turret on the sub-spindle allows multiple ...

65 sq. ft. footprint Working envelope of 550 x 600 x 500 mm (X-Y-Z) A-axis tilts from +45 to -90 degree angles; B-axis has infinite positioning points Mitsui Seiki USA Inc. has designed a specialized ...

LYON—Metal component supplier Mecachrome is refining the production process of the low-pressure turbine blades it is manufacturing for the CFM International Leap engine, CEO Christian Cornille says.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Arkema Inc of Pennsylvania, have demonstrated the feasibility of thermoplastic resin and ...

Wire arc additive manufacturing allowed this robot arm at ORNL to transform metal wire into a complete steam turbine blade like those used in power plants. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s ...

Distributed dielectric cure monitoring, or D-DEA for short, is a novel idea for applying dielectric analysis (DEA) in the manufacturing field. Rather than using a single costly base instrument and ...

Unprecedented wind energy growth — nearly 30 percent per annum over the past five years — is pressuring wind blade manufacturers to turn out more blades, more quickly, at a lower cost. Many ...

Siemens Power Generation announced on Aug. 17 that it will build its first U.S. wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Fort Madison, Iowa. The manufacturing facility which will be established in an ...

A new material for wind blades that can be recycled could transform the wind industry, rendering renewable energy more sustainable than ever before while lowering costs in the process. Researchers ...

India will make its longest onshore wind turbine blades at 91.2 metres as Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL) scales up ...

Everyone’s owned a pinwheel at one time or another. I remember riding in the back of my parents’ car, sticking my pinwheel out the window as we traveled down the street. The speed at which the ...

Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Xinjiang Institute of Physical and Chemistry Technology Research Institute have made analysis on the feasibility and unique advantages of carbon nanotubes / polymer ...