RHWCH: Retired Wind Blades Reborn as Reusable Shipping Pallets

Wind Blade Recycling | Retired blades converted into reusable pallets with carbon footprint certification

The retired blade problem

Wind installations have grown rapidly for years. Early turbines are now reaching end of design life, and large volumes of retired blades are arriving. However, disposal pathways are limited.

RHWCH (瑞和伟创) treats retired blades not as waste but as high-value raw material. The company converts them into high-load, corrosion-resistant, 80-cycle reusable packaging. Its recycled blade pallet received the world's first wind blade recycled pallet carbon footprint certification.

The company entered packaging business in 2005 and began exploring retired wind blade reuse around 2018. It has since connected blade recovery, equipment R&D, recycled packaging manufacturing, and asset operations.

Recovery network

RHWCH's subsidiary Fengnuo Environmental focuses on retired blade recovery. It operates seven recovery bases across northwest, northeast, north, and east China, with a 500 km collection radius. Cumulative recovery and processing exceeds 10,000 tons. Customers include China Energy, SPIC, Goldwind, and Envision Energy.

Intelligent equipment

The company co-developed China's first intelligent processing line for retired blade profiles, certified by CGC as the world's first "retired blade precision processing line". A single line processes 3,500 tons per year. A 10,000-ton turnkey line has been delivered. Recycled blade composite reinforced particleboard has a modulus of rupture (MOR) of 34.2 MPa, 71% above the national standard.

Recycled pallets

RHWCH’s packaging subsidiary produces a series of reusable pallets. The pallets received CGC's world-first carbon footprint declaration certificate, with a full-lifecycle carbon footprint of 5.723 kg CO₂e — 67% lower than conventional wooden pallets. Service life is 5–10 years. Over 100,000 reusable packaging units have been produced, with over 40% market share in the wind fiberglass packaging segment and annual carbon reduction of 11,000 tons.

A separate smart logistics subsidiary developed an IoT control platform and AI dispatch algorithm with a "transport-packaging integrated" business model, tracing and dispatching packaging assets end to end.

Case: Turnkey blade processing line

A retired blade precision processing line project for China Huadian Engineering. The challenge was that retired blades are difficult to dispose of, cause environmental pollution, and lack high-value reuse pathways. RHwCH provided an in-house developed turnkey production line.

Results: annual processing of 10,000 tons of retired blades, producing 13,000 tons of green recycled product. Dust removal efficiency above 99.5%. No process water required, achieving zero discharge of process wastewater. Solid waste and noise handled to the highest national environmental standards.

About the exhibitor

RHWCH was founded in November 2021 and is headquartered in Beijing. It plans and coordinates the full industrial chain from retired blade recovery to reusable packaging manufacturing. The company holds nearly 100 patents.

Booth: C1E33

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RHWCH | Wind Blade Recycling | Retired blades converted into reusable pallets with carbon footprint certification