TPI Composites is a leading windmill blades manufacturer and the only independent wind blade manufacturer with a global footprint. They accounted for approximately 32% of all sold onshore wind blades on an MW-basis globally excluding China in 2020. They reached a record high this year with nearly $1.7 billion in net sales and more than 10,600 wind blades produced. They enable many of the industry’s leading wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), who have historically relied on in-house production, to outsource the manufacturing of a portion of their wind blades, thus expanding their global wind blade capacity.
Their wind blade manufacturing facility is located at Mettupalayam Village, Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu.
They were founded in 1968 and have been providing composite wind blades since 2001. Their knowledge and experience of composite materials and manufacturing originate with their predecessor company, Tillotson Pearson Inc., a leading manufacturer of high-performance sail and powerboats along with a wide range of composite structures used in other industrial applications.
Their advanced manufacturing facilities are strategically located around the world to serve the growing global wind market in a cost-effective manner. They also leverage their advanced composite technology and innovation to supply unique, high-strength, lightweight, and durable composite product solutions to the transportation market, including passenger automotive, bus, truck, and delivery vehicle applications.
WINDMILL BLADES MANUFACTURING
With their global manufacturing footprint, they are able to deliver up to 18 GW of wind turbine capacity each and every year with the latest windmill blades design and technologies, well-positioned to achieve an optimal total delivered cost for their customers and continue to drive the Levelized cost of energy down for owners and operators of wind energy facilities.
Composite material systems are a complex combination of fiber and resin that when properly chosen will yield the highest possible strength and stiffness at the lowest weight. When these materials are laminated to a lightweight core, very high bending strength and bending stiffness can be achieved with virtually no significant weight increase.
The right choice of materials must include consideration of the structural configuration and externally applied loads as well as environmental conditions and expected service life. It is also critical to consider the manufacturing and fabrication methods as part of the material selection process. TPI applies this holistic approach to enable optimal performance and cost for your composite product. TPI has over five decades of experience with composite materials, processes, and design.
In the field of fiber-reinforced plastics, they have developed a deep understanding of composite material behavior, from anisotropic elasticity, quasi-static, and fatigue strength to manufacturing sciences of processing, fabrication, and assembly. This is particularly important for applications that involve long life under high fatigue loading. The exact knowledge of material behavior and performance are key to the right choice for a successful, low-cost operation.
Material selection generally includes extensive mechanical testing of coupons to evaluate static strength and stiffness as well as cyclic load testing that feeds structural design. TPI has developed cost-effective testing protocols to inform their generic material models for consistent application in design optimization. These material models provide consistent methods to quantify the durability of their structural designs to withstand peak operational loads and provide a lifetime of reliable service.
The ability to account for underlying material deviations such as fiber distortion, porosity, or other imperfections in the material analysis supports the generation of allowable manufacturing tolerances while driving affordability. From this insight, their team derives a complete set of designs allowable using probabilistic methods for all the materials applied to their structural solutions.
TPI continues to support the advanced materials industry partnering with dozens of reinforcements and resins suppliers to drive innovation and constantly bring new products that improve performance and reduce cost. Related to the life-cycle analysis of the materials we employ, TPI is leading efforts to identify sustainable materials that will present affordable end-of-life options for their composite products. This initiative includes supporting programs to identify paths of material recyclability to protect their environment for today and future generations.
Materials are the primary drivers in system performance and production costs. Let TPI Composites guide you to the most cost-effective, environmentally suitable, and structurally efficient composite solution for your next structural application.
TPI Composites India Private Limited,
Ascendas Logistics Park,
Survey Nos 232 to 240, 270 to 279,
Echoor/Mettupalayam village, Vallam,
Kanchipuram District,
Tamil Nadu, 631604, India
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