Sponsors

Any undertaking of this magnitude for a non-profit organization such as the Science of Hard Materials is impossible without sponsorship. Some of the sponsors listed below helped finance the first conference ICSHM 1 (*) and others (#) have generously contributed to several of the conferences and have therefore played a major role in their success.

• National Science Foundation*
• Reed Tool Co.*
• GTE Precision Materials*

• Hilti Corporation#
• Kennametal#
• Reedhycalog#
• Saint-Gobain Abrasives#
• Sandvik Coromant#
• Schlumberger#

• Carpenter Advance Ceramics
• Cemented Carbide Producers Assocviation
• DeBeers Industrial Diamond Division
• European Office of Areospace R&D
• Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica
• Iscar Ltd.
• Mitsubishi Materials Corp.
• MKS Instruments Inc.
• Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
• Teledyne/Firth Sterling
• Toshiba Tungaloy Co. Ltd.