Decommissioning contractors
Working to a demolition programme, needing a domestic route for the generator and the blades rather than a skip.
One Paladin
Critical materials & defense · Wind turbines
A turbine comes down in pieces too large to move whole. The nacelle, the blades and a generator carrying the same magnet material found in drives and motors. Paladin is the #1 wind turbine recycler in North America, and the recovery runs on the same record as everything else we retire.
How a turbine comes apart
Decommissioning splits a turbine into materials that go to very different places. Each is tracked against the same asset file.
Stream one
The tower and structural steel go to conventional metals recovery. High volume, well-established markets, and the least interesting part of the machine.
Stream two
The permanent magnets inside carry neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. This is the stream that matters, and the one most decommissioning contracts ignore.
Stream three
Composite blades are the hardest part of a turbine to place. They are handled domestically rather than exported to a landfill in someone else's jurisdiction.
Who this is for
A wind asset comes down on a date fixed by a lease, a repower or a grid connection. The recovery has to fit that date.
Repowering a site on a fixed schedule, with the old machines to place and a board asking what came back.
Working to a demolition programme, needing a domestic route for the generator and the blades rather than a skip.
Retiring assets across a fleet, where the same standard has to apply at every site regardless of who owns the crane.
Start here
Send the site, the machine count and the date. We will map recovery against the decommissioning programme and show you the documentation you would receive.