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Family-owned company Saertex is the global leader in manufacturing and for fibre-reinforced composites, used for building wind turbines, among other things. With over 300 million euros in annual sales, the company supplies wind energy customers with reinforcement materials made from glass, carbon and aramid fibres, for increasingly longer rotor blades and larger wind turbines. This boosts the turbine’s efficiency, while their lightweight construction facilitates transportation to hard-to-access places like offshore wind farms. The materials help turbines withstand even the most hostile environmental conditions. The Saerbeck-based subsidiary Saertex Multicom is specialized in pipe rehabilitation for civil engineering.

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• Date of publication: July 2016