Lach Diamant Still Grinding Diamonds After 95 Years

Lach Diamant in Germany has marked its 95th anniversary while maintaining the tradition of grinding diamonds, including the dressing and profiling of conventional grinding wheels.

The historical business segment of jewelry diamond grinding had its heyday in the 1930s, with 600 employed diamond grinders.

The development of the polycrystalline diamonds has influenced daily life since the end of the 1950s until today. The discovery of electrical discharge grinding for the forming of polycrystalline diamonds in 1978 was also the starting signal for a worldwide realignment in the woodworking and plastics processing industries, especially for the furniture and parquet flooring as well as the PCB industries.

The diamond tooling that was subsequently manufactured, including milling tools, scoring saws and saw blades, increased tool life.

The foundation of Lach Diamond Inc., in Grand Rapids in 1982 helped the introduction of this new technology to the North American market, at trade fairs in Louisville, Los Angeles and Atlanta.

When Jakob Lach founded his diamond grindery in 1922, he never would have thought that Lach Diamant would one day be a pioneer in the manufacturing of diamond tools, the founder of Lach Diamant said in the early 1980s.

In its anniversary year 2017, Lach Diamant, Germany, is exhibiting at EMO in Hanover, the largest European trade show for tools and tooling machines, and the company will present how the company’s diamond tools and grinding wheels have accelerated many technical innovations during the last fifty years.

The EMO as the World Trade Fair for Machine Tools and Metalworking is held alternately in Hanover and Milan. International exhibitors present at this trade fair, the latest materials, products and applications. Numerous lectures and forums used to exchange information between manufacturers and users. This exhibition is the forum for the acquisition of new customers.

On the whole the organisers welcomed on the 6 days of the fair, from 16. September to 21. September 2013, about 2100 exhibitors from 43 countries and 145000 visitors from 100 countries on the EMO in Hanover.

The EMO will take place on 6 days from Monday, 18. September to Saturday, 23. September 2017 in Hanover.