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Never Drill Again

Never Drill Again

The best ideas are often simple, and it was just such an idea that came to the mind of Ernst-Georg Ortwein in 2000. For a long time he had been annoyed by the lack of a strong, quick, clean alternative to drilling for attaching objects to high-quality surfaces like tile or natural stone. Above all, he wanted a method that was reversible – anyone who has seen a bathroom wall riddled with holes can appreciate that.

He considered the enormously strong, elastic and non-rotting single-component adhesives employed in the aircraft and automotive industries and thought there must be some way to put them to use in the building trades and home repairs. Up to that time, they had not been used because hardening took too long and the adhesive had to stay in contact with the air, making it impossible to achieve a bond through brief application of pressure. Ortwein had the following idea: use an adapter to mediate between the adhesive and the object to be attached! The adapter would have to let air through and be very rugged. And to be universally applicable it would have to have standard internal threads, screws or bolts.

Putting the idea into practice proved to be somewhat less simple than the idea itself. Ortwein had to do quite a bit of tinkering and experimenting, making many an error in the process, until his results met his expectations. Today his adapter is a mature product with international patents, and every day it is freeing more and more users from the trouble and expense of drilling.

In November 2005, to meet the growing demand, the Ortwein family sold the business with the new hole-free attachment technology from its sanitary equipment store to the newly founded nie wieder bohren ag (english translation "Never Drill Again"). The new company - with a financially strong investor in the background - has taken on the task of developing the many potential applications of the technology and marketing it internationally.

Take a look at this review from an independant journalist from KBB

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