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Manufacturing in Focus
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Manufacturing in Focus

For decades, retired wind turbine blades have posed a massive recycling challenge for the wind industry, with many ending up in landfills over the years. Canvus, based near Cleveland, Ohio, saw this challenge as an opportunity, coming up with a way to upcycle the blades at scale into furniture designed for communities, parks, and schools... 

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Waste Advantage Magazine
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Waste Advantage Magazine

With thousands of wind turbine blades being retired each year, Canvus has developed an innovative solution by upcycling them into furniture for parks, communities, and schools...

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Spectrum News
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Spectrum News

Canvus is an Avon-based company that upcycles retired wind turbine blades and turns them into one-of-a-kind furniture...

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Bluedot Living
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Bluedot Living

When turbine blades reach the end of their life, an Ohio company turns them into functional public art...

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Farm Show Magazine
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Farm Show Magazine

Fiberglass wind turbine blades are getting cut up and repurposed as park benches, planters, and more. Finding a use for the 3,000 to 8,000 blades being retired every year is a growing concern. Ohio startup Canvus is doing its part...

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Business Insider | World Wide Waste
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Business Insider | World Wide Waste

Conventional recycling techniques don't work on wind turbine blades. An Ohio startup called Canvus slices them into segments and turns them into benches and planters.

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The Independent
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The Independent

In northeastern Ohio, a region with deep roots in the iron and steel industries, one company has come up with a quirky but relatively straightforward solution for blades...

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Forbes | Innovation
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Forbes | Innovation

That’s why Ohio-based Canvus created a solution for the end-of-life fiberglass blades for the more than 70,000 wind turbines spread across the U.S.

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Bloomberg | Green
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Bloomberg | Green

At first glance, the benches outside the Great Lakes Science Center in downtown Cleveland seem unremarkable. But a closer inspection shows that their droplet-shaped shells aren’t made from wood or metal. A scan of the attached QR codes reveals even more: These benches used to be wind turbine blades...

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