Great year for wind industry hit by scarcity of core product

A combination of the year's massive wind expansion and the transition to a more sustainable turbine blade material has led to scarcity of raw materials. This will not end until next year, asserts subsupplier.
Balsa wood and PET foam is in high demand among wind turbine manufacturers. | Photo: JSB Group
Balsa wood and PET foam is in high demand among wind turbine manufacturers. | Photo: JSB Group

JSB Group is accelerating rapidly. Besides an ownership change in October, the Danish subsupplier, which produces core kits for wind turbine blades, has expanded with factories in China, Turkey, and most recently, Mexican city Matamoros near the US border. The latter is in the process of up-scaling from a production capacity of 500 blade kits this year to four times that amount at full capacity by next year.

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