Boart Longyear John Hoffmeister as president and chairman of the board of the company. FACTS was dissolved when Boart International (a wholly owned subsidiary of Anglo American) bought out CDP's interest in Longyear. In 1974, Boart International invested capital which helped Longyear to become the world's leading manufacturer of diamond bits. Boart Longyear engineers in North Bay, Ontario, secured a reliable source of high-performance synthetic diamonds, which triggered the development of a new bit design – the impregnated-diamond bit. With decades of powder metallurgy experience behind them, Longyear engineers set out to develop a new crown that consisted of synthetic diamonds evenly
Vitaly Bort Vitaly Bort Vitaly Bort is a former People's Deputy of Ukraine and a member of the Party of Regions (since May 2006). Vitaliy Petrovych Bort was born on 1 September 1972 in Donetsk. In 1994 Bort graduated from Donetsk Polytechnic University (Horlovka branch) in the faculty of the Construction of Roads and Bridges. In the 2014 parliamentary election Bort sought re-election to parliament for a constituency seat in Makiyivka; this time as a non-partisan candidate. At that time the constituency was held by pro-Russian insurgents during the War in Donbass and the elections did not take place. Bort is married;