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Press, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2017.01. ➜ Microstructured diamond for optical systems – scalable basic technology and use in ATR infrared spectroscopy.

Press, Watchtime.net, 2013.10. ➜ Silicon is good, but for watches there is actually a better material that women like to call their best friend: Diamond, the hardest material of all.

Press, Ulm News, 2012.04. ➜ GFD Managing Director Dr. Peter Gluche was a doctoral student at the University of Ulm and founded the Gesellschaft für Diamantprodukte mbH (GFD) together with Dr. Andre Flöter. Today, GFD develops and produces artificial diamond coatings with eight employees.

Press, Industrie Diamant Rundschau, 2005.05. ➜ At the Basel jewelry and watch fair “Baselworld”, the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Ulysse Nardin launched a world first: the first gear wheel made of pure CVD diamond in a watch.

Press, VDI Association of German Engineers, 2004.11/12. ➜ VDI Prize for Innovative Material Application 2004 goes to WMtech – University of Ulm and GFD Gesellschaft für Diamantprodukte mbH.

Press, Manager Magazin, 2004.08. ➜ Scientists have come up with a new twist to make mechanical watches run even more precisely and need to be wound less often. In the future, cogwheels could be made of artificial diamonds.

Press, Industrie Diamant Rundschau, 2004.04. ➜ Using a plasma sharpening process, GFD Gesellschaft für Diamantprodukte mbH, Ulm, has now succeeded in economically reducing the cutting edge radius of diamond-coated carbide blades to a value of less than 0.5 µm after the coating process.

Press, idw, 1999.04. ➜ Synthetic diamond scalpel – superior product personality. Any geometry and size and sharp to the point of no return. Ulm-based GFD Gesellschaft für Diamantprodukte mbH among the 10 best in Germany from StartUp.