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The First Windmill Blade Recycling Plant in the Basque Country Has Opened in Cortes

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The time has come for the oldest wind farms to be dismantled, and with it a problem has arisen for their owners: what to do with the old windmills? It is easy to recycle metal parts, but until recently the blades of these windmills were buried underground. But as technology has advanced, the blades can now also be recycled, and the first factory in the Basque Country to do so has been inaugurated today, in Cortes (Navarra). The new company is ca…
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When at the end of the last century they began to populate the fields and the slopes the moment was still seen far away. But it is already here. The useful life of the first wind turbines in Spain begins to run out and it is time to think about what to do with them. In some cases it is still possible to prolong the useful life of the shovels, of the ‘helixes’ of the towers. In others, no. The ‘repotency’ or update of the oldest parks, to renovat…

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The EnergyLOOP plant, the first dedicated specifically to the recycling of wind turbine blades from the Iberian Peninsula, has been inaugurated in the Navarre town of Cortes, which will allow the recycling of renewable plant components. This plant is designed for a treatment capacity of up to 10,000 tons per year. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the President of the Government of Navarra, María Chivite; the CEO of Iberdrola España, Mar…

The time has come for the oldest wind farms to be dismantled, and with it a problem has arisen for their owners: what to do with the old windmills? It is easy to recycle metal parts, but until recently the blades of these windmills were buried underground. But as technology has advanced, the blades can now also be recycled, and the first factory in the Basque Country to do so has been inaugurated today, in Cortes (Navarra). The new company is ca…

María Chivite, President of the Government of Navarre; the CEO of Iberdrola Spain, Mario Ruiz-Tagle; the CEO of FCC Enviro, Iñigo Sanz; and the Minister of Industry and of Ecological and Digital Business Transition of the Government of Navarre, Mikel Irujo, inaugurated this Tuesday morning in the town of Cortes (Navarre) the EnergyLOOP plant. This plant is the first plant specifically dedicated to recycling wind turbine blades in the Iberian Pen…

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María Chivite, President of the Government of Navarra, the CEO of Iberdrola España, Mario Ruiz-Tagle, the CEO of FCC Enviro, Iñigo Sanz, and Mikel Irujo, Minister of Industry and Environmental and Digital Business Transition of the Government of Navarra, opened this morning in the town of Cortes (Navarra) the EnergyLOOP plant, the first dedicated specifically to the recycling of wind turbine blades of the Iberian peninsula, which will allow the …

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elcorreoweb.es broke the news in on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.
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