GRIMSBY, United Kingdom (BRAIN) — LeMond Carbon UK is planning a facility here to make carbon fiber wind turbine blades and pressure vessels for hydrogen storage.
A property planning consultant firm, DWD, recently secured permission to build the facility on behalf of LeMond Carbon UK, a company founded by three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.
According to DWD, the U.K. is currently almost entirely dependent on imported carbon fiber and wind energy and hydrogen storage "are critical to the U.K.'s net zero ambitions."
"Only with carbon fiber can blade masses be managed and overall stiffness increased at longer blade lengths. In the hydrogen propulsion sector, carbon fiber is essential to the production of storage tanks (pressure vessels) as well as in fuel cell stacks and battery housings," DWD said.
A local news report said the facility could employ up to 400 workers.
