VestasEnergy/Oil & Gassince 2020
Vestas Wind Turbine Tooling and Molds
Wind blade root tooling and moulds
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Challenge
Wind blade moulds traditionally require expensive CNC-machined steel or fibreglass tooling with long lead times. The 3+ year production ramp for new blade designs is tooling-constrained.
Solution
Vestas and partners (ORNL) explored BAAM-printed thermoplastic composite wind turbine tooling. Demonstrated 3D-printed blade root inserts and mould components reducing lead time from ~2 years to weeks.
Outcomes
- 01Tooling lead time from ~2 years to weeks time savings
Technologies
Fused Deposition Modeling
Source
Pilot demonstrated; tooling adoption in evaluation for serial production
Cite this page
APA
AM Roadmap. (2020). Vestas Wind Turbine Tooling and Molds. AM Roadmap (v0.4.2-fixes-deployed). Retrieved 2026-05-17, from https://amroadmap.com/success-stories/vestas-wind-turbine-tooling-2020
BibTeX
@misc{amroadmap_vestas_wind_turbine_tooling_and_molds_2020,
title = {Vestas Wind Turbine Tooling and Molds},
author = {{AM Roadmap}},
year = {2020},
url = {https://amroadmap.com/success-stories/vestas-wind-turbine-tooling-2020},
note = {AM Roadmap dataset v0.4.2-fixes-deployed, accessed 2026-05-17}
}Canonical URL: https://amroadmap.com/success-stories/vestas-wind-turbine-tooling-2020