The
five-year
BladeMaker
scheme
aims
to
make
building
blades
more
“cost
effective,
quicker
and
[of]
a
higher
quality”
by
moving
away
from
the
largely
manual
lay-up
and
curing
process
used
by
manufacturers,
while
exploring
improvements
to
blade
design
and
materials.
A
facility
–
dubbed
the
BladeMaker
Demo-Centre
–
will
also
be
set
up
as
a
national
and
international
centre
for
research
and
development
into
rotor
blade
production.
“In
international
competition
rotor
blade
producers
are
under
great
cost
pressures
which
we
will
tackle
with
automation,”
says
project
manager
Florian
Sayer.
“The
BladeMaker
project
will…
