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Percussive Diamond Inserts
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MININ G & C O N S T R U C T I O N Percussive Diamond Inserts CRUSH THE COST PER METRE DRILLED ——----— Improve your drilling and project productivity with Element Six’s award winning Percussive Diamond Inserts, designed for use in extreme environments such as abrasive sandstone, quartzite, granite, limestone and basalt.

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PERCUS SI V E DIAMOND INSERT S FOR HARD ROCK DRILLING Award winning Percussive Diamond Inserts (PDIs) from Element Six deliver high impact resistance and exceptionally low wear rates – even in highly abrasive rock formations. Thanks to a specially engineered 3D PCD technology, the hole diameters are closely maintained throughout the drilling cycle. PDIs deliver high impact resistance and exceptionally low wear rates, resulting in longer drill life, deeper drilling and fewer drill changes – vastly improving economies for drilling contractors. NE W 3 D P CD T E CHNOL OGY Element Six PDIs use...

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IMPROV E YOUR DRILLING AND PROJEC T PRODUC T I V I T Y 10 WAYS OUR PDI s RE V OL U T IONI S E PERF ORM A NCE Drilling with PDIs has shown to extend bit life by 10 times that of conventional bits containing tungsten carbide inserts. Increased insert life has a positive effect on almost every other aspect of the drilling performance: R EDUCE –– Rig downtime –– Duration of each mining cycle –– Bit inventory –– Service and maintenance time and costs IMPR O V E –– Equipment utilisation –– Drilling and project productivity –– Contractor profitability and competitiveness DEL I V E R –– Consistent...

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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 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 applications in...

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