Consort Precision Diamond Celebrating 5 Years With CDT

5 years ago, Continental Diamond Tool made one of our biggest leaps into providing top notch products for our customers by joining forces with our subsidiary – Consort Precision Diamond (CPD) – in the U.K.

CPD is a leading supplier of precision Rotary Diamond Dressers for production grinding applications in aerospace, automotive, medical, tooling, etc.

CPD has and remains fully dedicated to this passion – to provide all customers with the best rotary dresser technology possible.

When it comes to Rotary Diamond Dressers, their focus is all-encompassing:

  • Design

  • Process & Product Development

  • Manufacture

  • Application Support

By teaming up with CPD, CDT has been able to bring quality rotary diamond dressers to the portfolio of superabrasive product offering, allowing for a fully integrated grinding process to the customer.

This has led to superior results for grinding wheel maintenance. The Rotary Diamond Dressers:

  • Can perform at high dressing speeds

  • Capability improvements -0.001um tolerance

  • Allow for more complex configurations

  • Improved product performance

  • Capacity expansions

  • Additional Products - CVD / Traverse disc dressers

Not only does it make way for excellent sharpening and fine finishes, it’s cost effective too.

But we’ve been up to more than just producing the highest quality rotary diamond dressers these past 5 years… All of which has had a direct, positive impact on the service you’ve come to expect with us at CDT.

More has happened over the past 5 years.

Capacity Expansion (2019/2020)

With the help of the Welch government we invested $500k into CPD.

  • New lathes

  • New grinders

  • New inspection lab/equipment

This improved our product quality, increased our capacity, and allowed us to hold tighter tolerances.

Major Upgrades to The Plating Lab 

With the increase in demand, and our drive to supply the best of leading edge tech, we launched an upgrade to the plating lab in 2021.

This extension more than doubled our ability to produce high-quality tight tolerance reverse plated rotary dressers.

Featured In the British Chamber of Commerce Study

The British Chamber of Commerce published a case study featuring CPD and our growth in international trade.

We export to over 20 countries worldwide, including:

  • Europe

  • USA

  • Canada

  • Brazil

  • Mexico

  • China

Nominated for 2 Major Awards

CPD was nominated for the 2022 Chamber Business Awards and the WCNW Chamber Business Awards in Export & International Trade.

2x Faster Production Rate

CPD expansion was supported by the government of Wales with £200k.

This support helped protect/create new jobs and would “help fund the first phase of a five year plan that will see Consort Precision Diamond expand and increasing its head count.”

2023

CPD will be adding a new product line of electroplated grinding wheels in Q2, which will allow further expansion into the superabrasives products in the EU/UK markets.

CPD had championed so much in the past 5 years, maintaining and exceeding expectations for being the top producer of diamond rotary dressers.

Thanks for joining in the 5-year celebration with us! We expect even more great things in the coming 5 years.

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