Element Six

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Element Six

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 Erica Leathers, Chief Financial Officer Dr Daniel Twitchen, Executive Director - Bus Dev & Technologies Sales Dr Iain Goudemond, Executive Director – Operations Emma Williams, Executive Director, HR & Communications
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 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.

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.