{"id":8300,"date":"2026-06-20T19:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:39:38","slug":"asbestos-found-in-china-sourced-wind-turbine-parts-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=8300","title":{"rendered":"Asbestos found in China-sourced wind turbine parts \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196663 lazyload\" style=\"width:827px;height:auto\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196663 lazyload\" style=\"width:827px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Wind-turbines-neutral-600x361.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Work is under way to remove asbestos in affected wind turbines<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Asbestos has been discovered in at least 1,000 wind turbines across Britain following the import of components from China, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The parts, contained in brakes used in lifts and hoists, are understood to have come from third-party Chinese suppliers and contain a white asbestos known as chrysotile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The GMB union has written to the UK government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) asking for a detailed account of a clean-up operation, which is now under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The type of asbestos has been completely banned in the UK since November 1999, making it illegal to buy, sell or export any materials with it, according to <em>The Sunday Times<\/em> which first reported the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Louise Gilmour, the secretary of GMB Scotland, told the newspaper: \u201cEvery one of the contracts sent abroad as operators chase the bottom line has cost our country jobs and apprenticeships. To discover we have been exporting skilled work while importing asbestos beggars belief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur country banned asbestos decades ago because it was killing workers and their families, but we now pay for it to be ferried here from the other side of the world and then pay again to remove it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe deserve to be told exactly how this happened and what is being be done to prevent it happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">There is no suggestion the lift suppliers or wind farm owners knew there was asbestos in the components when they were installed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Energy Institute, the membership body for professionals in the sector, said it was aware of the issue. \u201cIndustry reporting to date indicates that asbestos, where present, is confined within sealed brake housings, encapsulated, non?friable, and not generating airborne fibres under normal operating conditions,\u201dit said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWorking through member companies, we have shared data with the Health and Safety Executive and are engaging with lift manufacturers and turbine [original equipment manufacturers] to confirm replacement components and safe change?out methodologies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt present, there is no indication of worker health risk, and no evidence of wrongdoing by turbine operators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Asbestos #Chinasourced #wind #turbine #parts #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is under way to remove asbestos in affected wind turbines Asbestos has been discovered in at least 1,000 wind turbines across Britain following the import of components from China,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[10465,10464,283,10466,282,9976,10467,1140],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-asbestos","tag-asbestos-and-wind-turbines","tag-business","tag-chinasourced","tag-daily","tag-parts","tag-turbine","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}