Denmark: LORC Opens Lindoe Welding Technology

On 28 January 2013, LORC celebrated the official opening of Lindoe Welding Technology (LWT), which is the first in the planned line of advanced technology test centers for the offshore wind turbine industry.

LWT is an open fabrication lab equipped with one of the most powerful commercially available welding lasers in the world. LWT will act as a stepping stone for the industrial technology transition towards laser welding or laser-assisted welding in all areas using heavy sheet steel, thereby helping to lower the price of renewable energy harvested with offshore wind turbines.

For instance, the tower for an offshore turbine comprises approximately half a mile of welding seams. Laser-welding technology makes production faster, more precise, and more replicable. Learn more about the possibilities of laser welding here.

LWT is owned by LORC and Force Technology. At the opening of the fabrication lab, Carsten Hansen, who is the Danish Minister of Housing, Urban, and Rural Affairs, said:

“The possibility of halving the cost of producing giant offshore wind turbine towers with laser-welding technology that can speed up production by up to twenty times is a magnificent means of keeping the work local, thereby increasing the probability of new employment.”

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Press release, February 01, 2013; Image: lwt

On 28 January 2013, LORC celebrated the official opening of Lindoe Welding Technology (LWT), which is the first in the planned line of advanced technology test centers for the offshore wind turbine industry.  LWT is an open fabrication lab equipped with one of the most powerful commercially available welding lasers in the world. LWT will act as a stepping stone for the industrial technology transition towards laser welding or laser-assisted welding in all areas using heavy sheet steel, thereby helping to lower the price of renewable energy harvested with offshore wind turbines. For instance, the tower for an offshore turbine comprises approximately half a mile of welding seams. Laser-welding technology makes production faster, more precise, and more replicable. Learn more about the possibilities of laser welding here.

LWT is owned by LORC and Force Technology. At the opening of the fabrication lab, Carsten Hansen, who is the Danish Minister of Housing, Urban, and Rural Affairs, said:

“The possibility of halving the cost of producing giant offshore wind turbine towers with laser-welding technology that can speed up production by up to twenty times is a magnificent means of keeping the work local, thereby increasing the probability of new employment.”