NEXT GENERATION MICRON+
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NEXT GENERATION MICRON+ ——— Toolmakers can achieve highly consistent engineered abrasive tools using Micron+, which increases productivity and dramatically improves workpiece quality.

PRECISE REQUIREMENT DELIVERS THE BEST SOLUTION ———— Element Six works closely with customers to tailor products to meet their exact requirements. PRECISE REQUIREMENT is the Element Six approach to matching product offers to customer needs – exactly. From a core portfolio of products Element Six can work with customers to tailor a product to meet a specified end-use requirement. To support co-development, Element Six has a dedicated Global Innovation Centre where new ideas can be explored and specifications defined; and where prototype grit products can be developed and tested. Element Six...

ELEMEN T SI X MICRON+ MICR ON+ SY N T HE T IC DI A MOND A ND CBN P O W DER S Element Six Micron+ powders are part of the Element Six synthetic diamond abrasives family that provides a range of benefits to customers. These include increased levels of productivity and world class workpiece qualities achieved from the use of highly consistently engineered abrasive tools. The ability to select particles of precisely controlled size, strength and shape enables the production of the highest quality tools for the most demanding industrial applications. Element Six provides a complete range of...

UNIQUE MICRON+ PRODUC T ION PROCES S Element Six is one of only a very few large-scale manufacturers of synthetic diamond. Since the fundamental characteristics of synthetic diamond are determined at the synthesising stage, complete control over this part of the process gives Element Six a significant advantage in producing extremely high quality micron. Element Six creates the synthetic diamond that forms the basis for micron, which gives us a high degree of control over crystal size, strength, shape, purity and durability. At the Element Six Micron+ Production Centre the incoming...

THE NE X T GENER ATION MICRON+ PRODUC T R ANGE –– Micron+ is available in two source materials: synthetic diamond and cubic boron nitride. –– Micron+ product range includes: MDA, CDA and ABN. –– All Micron+ products are manufactured to ISO9001:2008, the international standard for quality management. –– Micron+ is delivered in individual factory sealed containers in quantities of up to 25,000 carats. –– Every container is bar-coded for traceability throughout the manufacturing process, with samples of each batch held for reference. –– Micron+ can be used in various bond systems including...

THE NE X T GENER ATION MICRON+ PRODUC T R ANGE T HE IMP OR TA NCE OF C OAT ING S A ND CL A DDING S Protective coatings are a technology developed by Element Six to enhance synthetic diamond retention in the bonding matrix and to protect the surface of synthetic diamond crystals in the sintering process. Improving synthetic diamond retention keeps tools working at peak efficiency and extends tool life. Protective coatings also shield the synthetic diamond during the sintering process, allowing higher temperature sintering for either better bonding metallurgy or the use of different value...

ADVANCED PERFORMANCE FOR DEMANDING APPLICAT IONS A W IDE R A NGE OF A PPL ICAT ION S F OR T O OL M A K E R S Element Six Micron+ is used to cut, grind, lap or polish many different materials such as: –– metal, resin and vitrified bond wheels –– pellets and polishing pads –– silicon –– silicon carbide –– quartz –– sapphire –– metal carbides (WC) –– ceramics Dicing wheel. Grinding wheel. –– ferrous metal Lapping tools. T Y PIC A L E ND U S E R A PPL ICAT ION S –– Super precision mould finishing for optical lenses –– Polishing optical lenses –– Cutting and grinding magnetic heads –– Slicing,...

E L EME N T S I X Element Six is a synthetic diamond supermaterials company and a member of the De Beers Group of Companies. Element Six designs, develops and produces synthetic diamond supermaterials, and operates worldwide with its head office registered in Luxembourg, and primary manufacturing facilities in China, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, South Africa, US and the UK. Element Six supermaterial solutions are used in applications such as cutting, grinding, drilling, shearing and polishing, while the extreme properties of synthetic diamond beyond hardness are already opening up new...