contents n°90 Companies & Business In brief 8 Sabic & Lockheed Martin to partner on carbon nanostructure materials Nordex invests up to EUR 50 million to strengthen its rotor blade capabilities Edito ......................................3 " Point of view: recycling & second life ..................4 We work for companies along the entire value chain from design through to certification. " Annette Roy, ReseARch And development mAnAgeR sébAstien pApin, pRoject mAnAgeR CRITT Matériaux Poitou-Charentes Dassault announces ultra long range Falcon 8X 10 11 Recycling Manhole covers and frames from thermoset reinforced plastic pipe waste Applications Agenda of Events ............... 12 14 Bike Thermoplastic-based compound reinforced with carbon fibres for bicycle seatpost Index .................................. 57 In the world ........................ 58 - The harder they come 16 Bridge Composites in civil engineering: bridge enclosures and edge profiles - A design lighter than air - Carbon fibers protect La Roja 15 FEATURE WIND ENERGY 22 Project 28 SWT 30 Process 33 Sustainability LM Wind Power to develop flexible blade concept 23 The world market for small wind turbines continues to grow 26 Epoxy New materials for various rotor blade manufacturing technologies 27 39 Flax Flax-based blades for a rooftop wind turbine 6 jec composites magazine / No90 June - July 2014 RTM RTM Skin, an innovative process in the wind energy sector Mapretec: a new production process for the wind energy sector Co-creation in the wind energy market works! 35 LCA First life cycle assessment of a French wind plant