Flexible hone plays role in raising the Costa Concordia

The “Flex-Hone“ tool, characterised by the small, abrasive globules that are permanently mounted to flexible filaments, has long been used for everything from automated metal finishing to maintenance and repair operations. Now the “Flex-Hone“ can add one more claim to its resume: playing a small, but important, role in one of the largest engineering feats in marine history – the raising of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia.