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neowa GmbH is a specialist in decommissioning and recycling wind turbines – with more than 300 decommissioned wind turbines across Germany. Founded in Lüneburg in January 2015 as a specialist in rotor blade recycling, we now work with around 30 colleagues at our headquarters in Lüneburg, in Bremen and at our warehouse in Prinzhöfte.
We decommission wind turbines at the end of their service life – as a general contractor and from a single source. This ranges from consultation, cost estimation and support with permits through dismantling the rotor, nacelle and tower, foundation decommissioning and blasting to legally compliant recycling and the handover of a clean site. We sell well-preserved turbines and components on the secondary market or offer them as spare parts.
Around 95 % of our projects prepare the ground for repowering. Our clients are operators, project developers, utilities and manufacturers – including Alterric, RWE, EnBW, Vestas, BayWa r.e., wpd and EDF renewables. In 2026 alone, we decommissioned more than 100 wind turbines, both individual turbines and entire wind farms.
Behind the scenes
A look at our sites: how we safely decommission wind turbines and prepare the site for repowering.
Our promise
As general contractor we coordinate authorities, experts, crane companies and disposal firms. You have one contact – from cost estimate to site handover.
As a certified waste management company we keep recycling and site records. For every tonne you receive proof of where it went.
Certified to ISO 45001: risk assessment, HSE concept and lifting plan are part of every project.
History
neowa GmbH starts business in January 2015 under the motto “we design waste”. The focus is first on planning, building and operating waste management plants. In the same year Nehlsen AG joins as a shareholder, and together they found neocomp GmbH to recycle rotor blades – an early step towards sustainable disposal in wind energy.
neowa completes its first rotor blade projects for well-known manufacturers.
Winner of the renowned GreenTec Award for the process for processing glass fibre reinforced plastics.
Operation of two waste treatment plants in Bremen, the industrial project “Jade” with the Varel paper and board mill, and the largest rotor blade recycling project to date with more than 1,700 tonnes, approved under the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG). In the same year neowa initiates, together with industry partners, the founding of RDRWind e.V. and, as a board member, helps develop the technical rule DIN SPEC 4866, drawn up between 2018 and 2020.
Planning, construction and operation of another treatment plant in Brake. Entering the technical decommissioning of wind turbines starts a strategic development: neowa builds expertise in dismantling, recycling and project management and increasingly establishes itself as a general contractor in decommissioning.
Certification to ISO 9001:2015 and recognition as a certified waste management company (Entsorgungsfachbetrieb).
Between 2023 and 2024 the company is realigned as part of a restructuring: the refuse-derived fuel plant in Brake is closed to focus fully on the decommissioning of wind turbines.
A change of shareholders makes neowa part of the Vida Group. Together with its sister company Ven-to, neowa lays the foundation of a service platform for the wind industry that bundles operation, maintenance and decommissioning. Maintenance, rotor blade service and main component replacement are already part of it, so operators and developers deal with fewer interfaces. Also in 2024, a mobile sawing unit is added, allowing rotor blades to be cut up directly on site.
Successful certification to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 underlines our commitment to quality, environmental responsibility and occupational safety.
In 2026 alone, neowa decommissions more than 100 wind turbines; more than 300 in total. Around 95 % of projects are repowering.
Thousands of wind turbines will reach the end of their service life in the coming years. neowa is growing with them: with an experienced team, certified processes and the aim of keeping more than 90 % of the material in the loop.
neowa GmbH starts business in January 2015 under the motto “we design waste”. The focus is first on planning, building and operating waste management plants. In the same year Nehlsen AG joins as a shareholder, and together they found neocomp GmbH to recycle rotor blades – an early step towards sustainable disposal in wind energy.
neowa completes its first rotor blade projects for well-known manufacturers.
Winner of the renowned GreenTec Award for the process for processing glass fibre reinforced plastics.
Operation of two waste treatment plants in Bremen, the industrial project “Jade” with the Varel paper and board mill, and the largest rotor blade recycling project to date with more than 1,700 tonnes, approved under the Federal Immission Control Act (BImSchG). In the same year neowa initiates, together with industry partners, the founding of RDRWind e.V. and, as a board member, helps develop the technical rule DIN SPEC 4866, drawn up between 2018 and 2020.
Planning, construction and operation of another treatment plant in Brake. Entering the technical decommissioning of wind turbines starts a strategic development: neowa builds expertise in dismantling, recycling and project management and increasingly establishes itself as a general contractor in decommissioning.
Certification to ISO 9001:2015 and recognition as a certified waste management company (Entsorgungsfachbetrieb).
Between 2023 and 2024 the company is realigned as part of a restructuring: the refuse-derived fuel plant in Brake is closed to focus fully on the decommissioning of wind turbines.
A change of shareholders makes neowa part of the Vida Group. Together with its sister company Ven-to, neowa lays the foundation of a service platform for the wind industry that bundles operation, maintenance and decommissioning. Maintenance, rotor blade service and main component replacement are already part of it, so operators and developers deal with fewer interfaces. Also in 2024, a mobile sawing unit is added, allowing rotor blades to be cut up directly on site.
Successful certification to ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 underlines our commitment to quality, environmental responsibility and occupational safety.
In 2026 alone, neowa decommissions more than 100 wind turbines; more than 300 in total. Around 95 % of projects are repowering.
Where we work
Headquarters
Branch
Warehouse
Audited quality
Legal certainty, completeness and depth of recycling – regularly audited by independent bodies.
Award
Ideas for more sustainability.
On 12 May 2017 our associated company neocomp GmbH received the GreenTec Award in Berlin in the category “Recycling & Resources by Veolia” for its process for treating glass fibre reinforced plastics (GRP).
The process recycles GRP in an environmentally sound and economical zero-waste process: the materials obtained are used completely, thermally and materially, in cement production, and can also be used in the processing industry. neocomp processes 30,000 tonnes of waste a year at its plant in Bremen. neocomp GmbH is a joint company of neowa GmbH from Lüneburg and Nehlsen GmbH & Co. KG, based in Bremen.
The GreenTec Award has been presented since 2008. It honours environmental and resource protection projects in 15 categories; a jury of more than 70 representatives from business, science, associations and the media chooses the nominees and winners.
Sustainability
Environmentally friendly, sustainable solutions are at the core of what we do. We work only with licensed disposal facilities and make your waste flows transparent. That builds trust. For our team, sustainability in waste management is the basis of how we work.
Network
Team
Around 30 colleagues in Lüneburg and Bremen: project managers, technicians, dispatchers and commercial staff who know your project and answer the phone themselves.
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