Element Six
Element Six is a company specialised in providing synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride and other superhard materials for industrial use. Part of the De Beers Group, Element Six employs over 1,900 people and its primary manufacturing sites are located in the UK, Ireland, Germany, South Africa, and the US.
| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Design, development, and production of synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide supermaterials. |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Ernest Oppenheimer |
| Headquarters | London |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Bruce Cleaver, Chairman Siobhán Duffy, Chief Executive Officer |
| Products | Industrial diamond, boron nitride, carbide, tungsten carbide, cemented carbide, ceramics, cutting tools, cutting tool material, thermal management, electronics cooling, poly diamond powder, wastewater treatment, quantum technology, synthetic diamond, chemical vapor deposition, synthetic polycrystalline diamond, polycrystalline cubic boron nitride |
| Services | Development of advanced engineering industrial and technology material solutions |
| Revenue | US $0.5 billion (2011) |
| Owners | Umicore, De Beers |
Number of employees | Over 1,900 |
| Website | www.e6.com |
Element Six advanced engineering materials are used in abrasive applications such as cutting, grinding, drilling, shearing and polishing, while the extreme properties of synthetic diamond beyond hardness are applied in a wide array of industrial and technology applications such as optics, power transmission, water treatment, semi-conductors, sensors and quantum information processing.