sp3 Offers DiaTip Freestanding Diamond Tips And Tipping Services To Global Market

Santa Clara, CA - sp3 Diamond Technologies, Inc., a supplier of diamond film services, equipment and products, brought its DiaTip freestanding diamond tool tips and tipping services to the global cutting tool market. sp3's freestanding diamond enables unparalleled performance, with DiaTip inserts capable of achieving a wear life two to three times that of polycrystalline diamond (PCD) while maintaining edge sharpness longer. DiaTip is available as insert tips and carbide-backed cartridge tips or as a custom tip applied to customer-supplied carbide inserts and cartridges.

"DiaTip has a significant impact on our customers' tool performance and overall cost of ownership," said Jim Herlinger, chairman and CEO of sp3 Inc. "While tool costs comprise only 3 percent of overall machining costs, DiaTip users will see longer tool life, at higher machining speeds and with fewer tool changes. This increased tool performance, which affects the other 97 percent of machining costs, significantly lowers the cost of ownership thanks to the wear, dimensional stability and total cost benefits of diamond tipped tools."

sp3 has significant expertise in the application of DiaTip having manufactured and internally used the tips for several years. Due to the benefits realized from the implementation of DiaTip, the company has decided to move into the mass market and offer it as an independent product.

"We have come to realize the value tool customers gain when they implement the DiaTip product and are looking to offer those benefits to the global cutting tool market," stated Dwain Aidala, president and COO of sp3 Diamond Technologies. "With its unmatched strength and durability DiaTip's performance exceeds that of PCD by 100 to 200 percent at a price point that is typically only 30 percent more than PCD, making it a very attractive proposition for our customers."

sp3's DiaTips are fabricated from a stand-alone sheet of thick film diamond, which is grown in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactor. Typical films are 500 microns thick. The diamond sheets are laser cut into DiaTips, which are then brazed to customer supplied carbide or steel inserts and cartridges. DiaTip features a cutting surface of pure diamond, with no binder. Absence of a binder avoids chemical interaction with coolant or work piece materials.

SOURCE: sp3 Diamond Technologies