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In September 2019 we updated our grinding app “APPRASIVE” for iOS and Android. The App helps end-users to find products, setup grinding tool and –machine, fine-tune processes and to solve process problems.

During a heavy autumn storm in September 2018, the ship M/S Osfjord ran aground off the coast of Trøndelag in Norway. After several attempts to salvage the shipwreck were unsuccessful, a TYROLIT saw wire was used to salvage the wreck in pieces.

In a tightly scheduled, large-scale project, the 15/33 runway at Salzburg Airport was refurbished. The concrete runway from the 1960s would remain as the foundation for the new covering layer consisting of 120,000 tons of asphalt.

To modernise one of the blocks of the Romanian nuclear power plant in Cernavodă, around 400 tons of concrete had to be decommissioned in a controlled manner and under the strictest safety conditions.

As part of the construction of the new Lancy-Bachet train station in the Swiss city of Geneva, a concrete wall, which had been used to hold back soil during the construction work, needed to be removed.

As part of an offshore decommissioning project for a major U.S. oil company in the Gulf of Mexico, a stub had to be removed within a short time frame in the last quarter of 2018.

Gaudi's unfinished masterpiece La Sagrada Familia is being built with stone from a Lancashire quarry, property of Armstrongs Group, UK. The stone was cut and profiled using Tyrolit diamond tools.