Element Six (E6), part of the De Beers Group, is a world leader in synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide supermaterials. With over 70 years of expertise and patented technology, E6's facility in Burghaun, Germany, creates cutting-edge industrial components with tungsten carbide, composite materials, and combined solutions. This article explores their innovative forestry solutions in the agricultural, farming and industries.
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Why Tungsten Carbide?
Tungsten carbide is well-known for its outstanding durability and wear resistance properties. In agriculture, where machinery is exposed to severe impact and abrasion, tungsten carbide tools outperform conventional materials, providing lower maintenance expenses and drastically reducing downtime, guaranteeing uninterrupted productivity during the farming season.
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Over 70 Years of Expertise
Element Six has produced tungsten carbide for over 70 years. Global consumers benefit from E6's knowledge in tungsten carbide materials science, its world-leading manufacturing and research and development facilities, and its comprehensive expertise in hundreds of applications.
Element Six works in collaboration with its clients, harnessing the remarkable properties of tungsten carbide to tackle complex and specific requirements. The result is a product that revolutionises performance and productivity, providing customers with a competitive advantage.
Unmatched Productivity
Effective cutting and tillage are essential for successful farming. As a result of their hardness and strength, tools made from tungsten carbide deliver premium cutting performance, even in challenging soil conditions.
Tungsten carbide tools provide precise, clean cutting – resulting in enhanced seedbed preparation, improved seed-to-soil contact, and decreased soil compaction. This translates into higher operational speeds and increased efficiency, meaning customers can finalize agricultural tasks, such as planting, harvesting or processing, quicker.
Element Six's tungsten carbide technology helps consumers improve their productivity, meet tight deadlines, and optimise their farming operations.
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Sustainability
Environmental awareness is becoming progressively important on a global scale. Therefore, it is essential to embrace and foster sustainable farming practices. Tungsten carbide plays a crucial role in promoting sustainability in agriculture. Through the enhancement of cutting and tillage operations, tungsten carbide reduces soil erosion, minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, and lowers fuel consumption. Thanks to that, Element Six's tungsten carbide solutions have the potential to enable a greener future for the agriculture industry.
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By applying variations within the grain size and binder content, Element Six's engineers can engineer tungsten carbide to deliver different properties and performances, exclusively suitable for each purpose (including percussive drilling, forestry, recycling, agriculture, and mining and tunnelling).
Element Six provides tailor-made solutions that transform machine and tool manufacturing for soil preparation, in addition to seed drilling, forestry, crop harvesting, and overall wear protection.
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