Any undertaking of this magnitude for a non-profit organization such as the Science of Hard Materials is impossible without sponsorship. Some of these sponsors have helped to found the conference series (*) and others (#) have generously contributed to several of the conferences and have therefore played a major role in their success.

National Science Foundation*
Reed Tool Co.*
GTE Precision Materials*

Kennametal#
Sandvik Coromant#
Saint-Gobain Abrasives#
Schlumberger#

Carpenter Advance Ceramics
Cemented Carbide Producers Assocviation
DeBeers Industrial Diamond Division
European Office of Areospace R&D
Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica
Iscar Ltd.
Mitsubishi Materials Corp.
MKS Instruments Inc.
Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
Teledyne/Firth Sterling
Toshiba Tungaloy Co. Ltd.