German diamond cutting tool makers Tyrolit have produced a new blade for the stone industry which, at less than 2mm wide, produces a clean, fast cut with less waste and, therefore, less dust.

Tyrolit say the development has been made possible by their own HDS patented technology. The resulting product is called the Starmodel, now available for two-handed grinders at 1.9mm thick in diameters of 180mm and 230mm. For one-handed grinders the wheels are 1.2mm thick in diameters 115mm and 125mm. The picture shows a cross section of the two-handed Starmodel on the left compared with their previous comparable two-handed wheel.