Shannon based, Element Six is marking sixty years of operations in the county by announcing “significant infrastructure programmes”.
Developers and manufacturers of synthetic diamond solutions supplying global Oil & Gas, Automotive & Aerospace and Mining & Construction industries, Element Six’s Shannon facility was first established in 1961.
Since 2017, the company has invested €16m on the Shannon site and has created 100 jobs in the area, bringing the total number of people employed to over 500.
Over the next three years Element Six Limited will embark on further significant infrastructure programmes aimed at paving the way for the site’s future and improving the overall operational efficiency at its Shannon facility.
CEO at Element Six, Walter Hühn stated, “We are thrilled to celebrate this significant milestone – a diamond anniversary, fittingly – with our local and global teams. This is an opportunity to remember the past we built our foundations upon, but also – crucially – to remain focussed on the road yet to come, our journey into a modern future where sustainability and digital transformation will not be finite projects to complete, but rather states of perpetual agility, enabling us to dynamically adapt to new market trends and customers’ needs.
“With that in mind, today marks not only six decades of fostering talent, manufacturing excellence and diamond innovation in Shannon, but also building and nurturing a community that is at the heart of what we do, underpinned by the same values we upheld 60 years ago. Those values are embedded in the DNA of our company and its people, and will continue to be the driving force in ensuring a prosperous future for Element Six,” he added.
IDA Ireland’s Executive Director, Mary Buckley praised Element Six for their “unwavering” commitment to the Mid-West region.
Shannon Chamber CEO, Helen Downes outlined, “elebrating a sixty-year footprint in Shannon is an amazing achievement. It demonstrates, not just commitment to the area but the ability of the organisation to adapt to the changing circumstances it has encountered over this six-decade timespan”.
