Boart Longyear wireline core retrieval system, an innovation that revolutionized the diamond drilling industry by increasing productivity on the worksite and making tripping core from the bottom of the hole safer for the drilling assistant. Later named the Q Wireline System, the new core retrieval method introduced a level of productivity never before seen in the exploration drilling industry. In 1964 Longyear sold 25 percent of its family-owned stock to FACTS, a Luxembourg-based holding company owned jointly by Boart International and Christensen Diamond Products Company. Three years later FACTS exercised its option to purchase another 25 percent of Longyear's family stock. The
Vitaly Bort his wife Olga (born 1973) is a housewife. They have one daughter, Yana, born in 1996. 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