Eagle Claw, National Institute for Renewable Energy enter into strategic initiative

February 11, 2011

Eagle Claw Fabrication LLC, Tulsa, Okla., and the National Institute for Renewable Energy (NIRE) have announced a strategic research initiative to validate key areas of technology, such as the Talon Flange connecting flange ring for wind turbine towers.

The companies intend to have Texas Tech University perform validation research for the connecting flange. When that research is complete, NIRE plans to help commercialize the flange, originally developed by Eagle Claw founders T.N. Word and C. Hartman, in a fully operational wind turbine generator. The patent-pending connection flange ring bolts together the sections of large wind turbine towers.

Eagle Claw also has plans to build a 167,000-sq.-ft. facility for the construction of wind turbine towers at the International Port of Muskogee, Muskogee, Okla. The company expects to create about 175 jobs in Phase 1 of the project.