Titadyn 30 AG (often referred to as Titadine) is a type of compressed dynamite used in mining and manufactured in southern France by Titanite S.A.
The explosive comes in the form of salmon-coloured tubes of a range of diameters, from 50 to 120 mm.
Titadine is very powerful and fast-burning, with an energy rating of 4650 J/g and a speed of detonation of over 6,000 m/s.
In September 1999 a combined group of ETA members and Breton separatists raided a factory at Plevin, Brittany, stealing over eight tonnes of Titadyn, some of which was subsequently sold to the Islamist resistance group Hamas, according to Spain's El Mundo newspaper.
[1] Another raid took place in March 2001 when an explosives factory near Grenoble in France was targeted and 1.6 tonnes of Titadyn was stolen.