6. May 2022: An important new fieldtest of Elop's Insight Crawler have been
conducted together with the leading multinational integrated construction and
real estate company Implenia GmbH. The tests done together with Implenia marks
an important milestone in the development of Elop's crawler solution -
confirming the technology and its market potential.

According to the testing partners the crawler solution have a significant
potential as its much quicker, it improves safety, and reduce costs associated
with inspections compared to other currently available technology in the market.


The Insight crawler from ELOP will be an efficient and safe tool that can climb
vertically on concrete infrastructure such as buildings, cooling towers and
bridges to inspect and check the inside of the structure to detect voids,
airpockets, cracks etc. to confirm the state of the structure.

This is the second successful milestone test of the crawler solution after the
first test done with the federal Autobahn company Autobahn GmbH in Germany
earlier this year.

"These tests make us confident that there is a great market potential for our
solution and confirm the need for it in the market, we are on track with the
development and on schedule as planned to commercialize the crawler", says
Marcus Jocham, Head of Business development in ELOP Technology. 

The German market is very interesting for such technology, and its highly
needed, according to Jocham.

"The German autobahns and highways in Germany have around 40,000 bridges.
According to the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), almost 4,800 are in
a critical or unsatisfactory condition. A robotic scanner like the
InsightCrawler can greatly improve the inspection authority's inspection
capabilities, making inspections a lot more effective," explains Jocham. 

Today German Motorway bridges are inspected every six months by means of a
"hands-on inspection" by visual inspection and by tapping them with a special
hammer, but it only provides for a superficial test. With a solution like the
InsightCrawler the German Autobahn company now can see inside the bridges.
 
"Currently we are four men responsible for inspecting and control 700 bridges.
That's almost impossible. We hope that we could relieve our staff with such
innovations." Said Bernhard Möhrle, head of the bridges and civil engineering
department at Autobahn GmbH Südbayern, about ELOP' Crawler solution to Der
Spiegel 10. March 2022.

Contact information:
o Stian Thorsrud, Head of Communications and Marketing, tel: +47993 00 003
o Øivind Horpestad, CEO and Executive Chairman, tel: +47 910 00 626

For investors:
o Kim Boman, CFO of Elop, tel: +47 959 63 912

About Elop AS 
Elop is a Norwegian technology company that delivers tools and digital solutions
to inspect, monitor and manage infrastructure worldwide. Through data-driven and
AI-based solutions for inspection and predictive maintenance of concrete
infrastructure, Elop's vision is to provide asset owners with solutions that
improve safety, extend asset lifetime, minimise total lifecycle cost and
environmental footprint. Elop is headquartered in Norway. For more information:
www.elop.no