A bamboo-based composite offshore photovoltaic platform unveiled in China
Zhonglin Green Carbon (Beijing) Technology, a subsidiary of China Forestry Group Corporation, and Yantai CIMC Raffles Marine Technology Group officially released “the first domestic bamboo-based composite offshore photovoltaic platform.” Called ‘Jilin No. 1’, the platform is jointly developed by both parties in Yantai, a city in China’s northeastern Shandong province. This launch marks a major breakthrough between the two parties in the field of R&D and manufacturing of green and low-carbon offshore engineering equipment.
‘Jilin No. 1’ bamboo-based offshore photovoltaic platform is 7 meters long, 7 meters wide, 2.4 meters high, and weighs about 4 tons. It has gone through the three stages of inspection, installation and test run. According to China Forestry Group Corporation, it is the first offshore photovoltaic platform in China that uses lightweight and high-strength bamboo-based materials as the main material and “bamboo instead of steel”.
In addition to providing buoyancy, bamboo-based offshore materials used in the construction of platforms also have the advantages of high environmental friendliness, strong resistance to seawater corrosion, long service life, and low cost.
In the next step, China Forestry Group Corporation and CIMC Raffles Group will give full play to their respective advantages in the fields of marine engineering, clean energy and bamboo new material technology to expand the application scenarios of bamboo-based composite materials. The aim is to seize market opportunities in offshore ships engineering, offshore wind power, offshore equipment and other fields, by focusing on the development of emerging products using bamboo-based composite materials such as offshore wind turbine blades, boarding bridges, containers, and offshore fixed platforms.
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