Owens Corning Launches Ultrablade Fabrics for Making Wind Turbine Blades

Owens Corning has launched its high-performance fabrics meant for wind turbine blades, termed as Ultrablade. These high-performance fabrics go on to support the market shift towards stiffer, lighter and longer wind turbine blades. These solutions enable designers in removing almost a metric ton in resin and fabric from 2-MW wind turbine blades sets.

Owens Corning’s Ultrablade fabric solutions will be available in the commercial market by early 2011 and gives designers more freedom towards developing longer blades to suit the present day need of larger turbines.

Ultrablade showcases the company’s ability in working systematically upon designing and towards optimizing the overall reinforcement system meant for the company’s customers. The Ultrablade fabric solutions would be produced globally across the company’s facilities. Owens Corning is making use of a distinct PINK stitching for identifying the Ultrablade fabric among its competitors in the marketplace and this color has become a trademark of the company representing quality, performance and innovation.