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Andrew Billingsly, CEO at Plaswire, joins to discuss how the company recycles wind turbine blades into construction materials, timber replacements, and utility products. Plus carbon fiber recovery, zero-dust cutting technology, and plans to license blueprint factories worldwide.

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Andrew Billingsly: Exactly. 

Allen Hall: Are we good? 

Andrew Billingsly: I’m truly impressed with this great operation you’ve got. You really moved this forward, isn’t it? That’s great. We try. Yeah. 

Allen Hall: Yeah, we try. We’re not 

Andrew Billingsly: trying. You do. 

Allen Hall: So I, I will put an intro to this episode when we get back to the states. So I’m just gonna say, Andrew, welcome to the show.

And then we will start talking. 

Andrew Billingsly: Where do I look 

Allen Hall: here? 

Andrew Billingsly: Right? Just, just here. 

Allen Hall: Yeah. Don’t worry about those. We’ll figure that out later. That’s, 

Andrew Billingsly: yeah. A bit of AI in that. Yeah. 

Allen Hall: Yeah. 

Andrew Billingsly: And you’ll see as well. Andrew, welcome to the program. Thank you very much, Alan. Joe, really great pleasure to be here today. 

Allen Hall: So we’re here to learn about PLA wire and all the great things you’re doing in Northern Ireland because you’re involved in a lot of recycling efforts in wind, outside of wind.

You’re doing very novel things, which I think the world needs to hear about. Let’s just back up a minute, because not everybody. And particularly [00:01:00]in North America has heard of PLA wire, even though you, you’re all over LinkedIn. What does PLA wire do? What is this basic fundamental of PLA wire? 

Andrew Billingsly: Basically, we’re a processor of polymers.

Okay? 

Andrew Billingsly: So that’s how we see ourselves, that’s how we frame ourselves. We’re a polymer processor with a waste management license. Uh, 

Joel Saxum: I think the important thing here, and this is w