While the demand for renewable energies is increasing, the scarcity of balsa wood is threatening progress.<\/p>\n
Our aim is therefore to replace this conventional material with fiber-reinforced foams like us. SAER<\/span>foam<\/span> for Wind.<\/p>\n As part of the research project\u00a0OptiFoam<\/strong> we are therefore investigating the potential of these fiber-reinforced foams as an alternative to the use of balsa wood and rigid plastic foams such as PVC and PET as core materials in rotor blades.<\/p>\n In cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) and other industrial partners, we are developing our SAER<\/span>foam<\/span> and adapt it to the specific requirements.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SAERfoam as a sustainable alternative to balsa wood in rotor blades - While the demand for renewable energy is increasing, the scarcity of balsa wood is threatening progress. Our aim is therefore to replace this conventional material with fiber-reinforced foams such as SAERfoam for Wind. As part of the OptiFoam research project, we are therefore investigating the potential of these fiber-reinforced foams as an alternative to the use of balsa wood and rigid plastic foams such as PVC and PET as core materials in rotor blades. In collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES) and other industrial partners, we are constantly developing our SAERfoam and adapting it to specific requirements.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"competences":[],"brands":[],"class_list":["post-18341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-article"],"acf":{"news_contact":"","news_video_youtube":"","project_subheadline":"SAERfoam als nachhaltige Alternative zu Balsaholz in Rotorbl\u00e4ttern","project_gallery":[{"field_62ebd9c88c8d4":"18342","field_62ecd2f4b92f5":""}],"project_gallery_height":450,"project_gallery_effect":"coverflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"competences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/competences?post=18341"},{"taxonomy":"brands","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brands?post=18341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}