Since 1946, innovation has been at the core of E6’s DNA. By continuously reinventing its world-leading solutions to unlock performance in the world’s most demanding industrial environments, E6’s pioneering work has shaped significant progress across countless sectors, ranging from machining and semiconductors to optics, thermal management, mining, and cutting-edge applications in the energy and sensing fields.     
 

Today, E6’s mission to ‘shape the future’ continues to accelerate new and existing technologies, and its award-winning solutions are enabling breakthroughs in fields such as quantum technologies, high‑power electronics, and advanced photonics, helping customers and research partners turn fundamental science into commercial reality.  

“As we mark this milestone, we look to the future, renewing our commitment to usher a new era of advanced material applications. Here’s to the next 80 years of accelerating technological transformation through the remarkable properties of these outstanding materials.”

Siobhán Duffy, CEO, E6.

Over the last couple of weeks, you will have seen that we also launched our new Sustainability Plan, reinforcing our commitment to do our part to preserve an earth worth living on. We believe that a sustainable business is a resilient business and, with this principle, Element Six enters its 80th year poised to shape the technologies that will define the next century.

Find out more about Element Six’s history in our new timeline video.

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About Element Six
Element Six, part of the De Beers Group, is a world-leader in the design, development and production of synthetic diamond advanced material solutions. The company operates worldwide with primary manufacturing facilities in US, UK, Ireland, Germany, and South Africa. 

For eighty years, Element Six has harnessed the extreme properties of synthetic diamond to open up new possibilities in areas such as photonics, acoustics, power transmission, water treatment, thermal management and sensors.

The company’s advanced material solutions are used in a wide range of applications across multiple industries including manufacturing in the automotive and consumer electronics industries, cutting and drilling in the oil and gas industry, and in components for mining, road, construction and agriculture applications.

Media enquiries
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