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The Supervisory Board of Ematec has announced the appointment of Julian Eberhard, 30 years old, to the Management Board as Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Memmingham, Germany-headquartered manufacturer of lifting equipment for the installation of wind turbine rotor blades has launched a new generation of its popular RBC-D range of installation yoke: the RBC-D50.1. The crosshead on the new...

The RBC-D-Green-Line rotor blade lifters are battery-operated with a redundant double drive system. They automatically adjust and balance themselves to the respective blades from 45 metres to 110 metres in length. The first lifter is to be delivered by the end of March, then each additional one will follow every month. Ematec said currently 17 of the lifters are in use worldwide, with Nordex and Siemens Gamesa among the companies utilising the technology. Ematec chief executive Manfred Eberhard...