The Company dealt in natural gem rough and industrial diamonds and sold their goods to manufacturers of tools, saw blades, grinding wheels and drill bits for mining and oil field exploration as well as to gem rough dealers worldwide. In 1964, Werdiger began Diamond Abrasives Corporation which was a distributor of DeBeers synthetic industrial diamonds in North America for more than forty years. While the products were industrial diamonds, both Companies were really in the service business providing more than a thousand different types of diamonds on demand to meet their customers’ requirements. Industrial diamonds are used in a multitude of different applications and are essential to modern life.