John Crane Acquires Advanced Diamond Technologies' Industrial Division

26 April 2019

Based in Romeoville, Illinois, USA, ADT specialises in the development of diamond films for industrial, electronic, mechanical and medical applications.

The Industrial Division of ADT has developed proprietary materials that capture the properties of natural diamond using chemical vapor deposition. The company’s ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD®) technology is a thin-film diamond material grown through a proprietary chemical vapor deposition process. UNCD improves mechanical seal reliability and performance in difficult applications involving poor lubricating fluids, liquids above their atmospheric boiling point and abrasive slurries.

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