Iowa company Renewablade finds use for discarded wind turbine blades

Iowa Capital Dispatch

Three wind turbine blades sit ground up inside the concrete blocks of a new retaining wall at Premier Credit Union in downtown Des Moines.

It’s the latest project from Renewablade, a company in Bondurant that has found a way to use the materials and, in turn, alleviate the issue of what to do with the massive hunks of fiberglass and resin.

Brian Meng with Renewablade said the company is finally in production after several years of research and development to figure out the best way to grind up the blades and incorporate them into the concrete.

Right now, Renewablade makes three main products: the retaining wall blocks, like those used at the Premier Credit Union project, commercial highway barriers, and larger barriers used to bunker agricultural materials.

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