Diamond development

摘要

Element Six is creating a £20m innovation centre near Oxford to develop new products.The international synthetic diamond company, which makes products for oil and gas drilling as well as machining and electronics, is building the new facility in an effort to consolidate its research and development (R&D) activities.Steve Coe, Element Six's group innovation director, told The Engineer. 'The primary reason for doing it is because our research centres are scattered around the world at the moment. The idea is to take the majority of that work and consolidate it into one centre so we get much better communication and co-ordination of our R&D activity.'