While offshore wind farms are an important source of the world’s future renewable energy supply, the sea is a hostile environment for wind turbines, wearing down their parts with saltwater and high shaft speeds. The cost and effort to replace these components is high.

That’s why a German parts manufacturer is now using Hydrin® epichlorohydrin elastomers (ECO) in place of nitrile rubber for the seals that secure the turbines’ blades. The company, Otto Haas KG in Nuremberg, Germany, is an innovative business that has produced rubber and plastic parts for more than 60 years, and today creates high-quality seals for the wind industry.