10/20/2004

Diamond Innovations, formerly known as GE Superabrasives, now provides Composite Diamond
Coatings1 - CDC - that offer a practical and economical opportunity, to provide the unique properties of diamond to the surface of wear parts and systems. Any part that is exposed to harmful and costly effects of various wear modes may benefit from this protective unique coating technology.

Protection for Wear Parts and Systems from the No.1 Diamond Expert

The CDC coating offered by Diamond Innovations is a hard metal alloy with fine particles of Man Made* Diamond dispersed throughout the metal matrix. Tightly controlled diamond characteristics, such as purity as well as tightly controlled sizes and shapes, significantly enhance the quality of CDC. The excellent control of Diamond Innovations micron products are key for the critical consistency that makes a premium CDC coating. Outstanding wear life and enhanced reliability guarantees a significantly extended use of the CDC coated parts. The coating can be chemically removed and replaced with a fresh coating. The result is a part as good as new, without manufacturing cost for a replacement. These benefits, combined with the unmatched hardness and wear resistance of diamond, make CDC a cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to other processes such as electroplating, hardening or thermal spraying.

Uniformity Regardless of Work Piece Geometry -
Huge Savings Potential Through Innovative Work Piece Options

CDC applies with unmatched uniformity to most complex geometries.

CDC is applied with absolutely perfect uniformity to all surfaces of the work piece. Unlike other coating processes, there is no build up on edges, corners, inner diameters or any other given part of the surface. CDC can be applied with the same unmatched uniformity to the most complex geometries.

Commonly coated materials are steels and aluminum alloys. Copper, brass, bonze and stainless steel can also be treated with CDC. Given the unique properties of CDC, huge cost savings potentials are opened by changing the base material of parts to one that is less expensive, lighter, or easier to manufacture. High cost base materials, such as tungsten carbide or ceramics can potentially be replaced with CDC coated low cost steels or aluminum. CDC also successfully replaces applications such as functional hard chrome plating, thermal spray coatings, carburizing, nitriding and boriding of steel parts and anodizing of aluminum. CDC applies with unmatched uniformity to most complex geometries.

New and innovative substrate materials can be evaluated at Diamond Innovations' applications laboratory upon request through www.AbrasivesNet.com

Diamond Innovations is the inventor and the world's leading supplier of manufactured diamond, cubic boron nitride (CBN), and polycrystalline products used in the metalworking, stone, concrete, petroleum, glass, woodworking, electronics and mining industries.

For more information please contact Carmen.Kassing@abrasivesnet.com
Phone 49 172 6924 902, Fax 49 6103 87274

*Trademark of Diamond Innovations, USA
1Composite Diamond Coating is a patented process of Surface Technology, Inc., Trenton, NJ.

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