Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the shortlisted candidates for the 2025 major environmental protection technology and equipment innovation projects. Forplus successfully made the list with its “ultra-high-pressure water jet cutting equipment for on-site dismantling of decommissioned wind turbine blades,” becoming a key technology research and development unit in the field of decommissioned wind turbine blades. This achievement reflects both the national strategic layout for the high-quality development of the environmental protection industry and the company’s leading technological position in the field of new energy waste treatment equipment.
As a crucial measure in the national effort to deepen reforms in the science and technology system, the “challenge-based bidding” mechanism, with its open approach of “talent regardless of background,” focuses on publicly soliciting solutions to challenging problems in the environmental protection field, allowing enterprises, universities, and research institutions to independently bid on and tackle these challenges. Among the 27 tasks listed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the “on-site cutting equipment for retired wind turbine blades” is listed as a key task, directly addressing a critical bottleneck in the sustainable development of the new energy industry. It is estimated that the amount of retired wind turbine blades will reach 1.5 million tons per year by 2030. As wind power equipment enters its peak retirement period, traditional cutting methods face significant problems such as low efficiency, heavy pollution, and high transportation costs. The national government has clearly stipulated that the winning equipment must meet stringent requirements such as efficient cutting and resource recycling, highlighting the strategic importance and forward-looking nature of this technology.
Forplus’s ultra-high-pressure waterjet cutting equipment uses ultra-high-pressure water jets as the cutting medium to achieve precise on-site dismantling of decommissioned wind turbine blades. The cutting efficiency is significantly higher than traditional mechanical methods, and the process is dust-free and low-noise. The equipment adapts to different blade specifications through intelligent cutting programs and simultaneously facilitates the recycling of glass fiber from decommissioned wind turbine blades, resulting in a high resource recovery rate. This perfectly aligns with the national environmental protection goal of “synergistic improvement of pollution reduction and carbon reduction.” This technology not only solves the industry pain points of “difficult transportation, difficult dismantling, and difficult recycling” of wind turbine blades but also fills the gap in domestic specialized equipment for on-site waterjet cutting treatment of decommissioned wind turbine blades, highly consistent with the green transformation needs of national strategic emerging industries.
This nomination signifies national-level recognition of Forplus’s technological capabilities. In the future, the company will leverage this project to deepen the application and expansion of ultra-high-pressure waterjet cutting technology in the environmental protection field, contributing to the national effort to build a “resource recycling” industrial ecosystem and providing innovative solutions for building a “beautiful China.”
