b'Industry Briefsheld a ribbon-cutting ceremony Jan. 17 to officially open its new 15,000-sq.-ft. headquarters and CVD-di-amond coating facility in Big Flats, N.Y. The opening marks the fourth expansion of production capabilities since the U.S. subsidiary was opened in 1998 and the third increase in capacity for CVD-diamond processing since 2014.Those attending the ceremony included Dr. Toni Ley-endecker, founder and owner of Germany-based par-ent company CemeCon AG; Tom Santulli, Chemung County executive; Kamala Keeley, Chemung County Chamber of Commerce president; and Mike Krusen, president of Southern Tier Economic Growth.It was quite a big deal for the local community, said Gary Lake, president of CemeCon Inc. We ended up on the local papers front page, above the fold.The new building joins the companys 25,000-sq.-ft. facility in the same Big Flats complex. With CVD-diamond production relocated to the new building, the larger building will continue to house CemeCons equipment for PVD and high-power impulse magne-tron sputtering (HiPIMS) PVD coating technologies.We can add 75 percent to our PVD and HiPIMS busi-ness because of the area that was vacated by the dia-mond process, Lake said, adding that the company is in the process of ordering another HiPIMS machine. We have enough space that we could easily go up an-other five or six machines. Thats a big deal.He emphasized that the fully commercialized HiPIMS technology is able to deposit coatings that are thicker, harder and experience less stress during application than conventional PVD coatings. Therefore, a wider range of coating thicknesses can be deposited that bet-ter adhere to the substrate. 18MARCH 2018IndyNews.indd 18 2/15/18 2:40 PM'