Boart Longyear Limited
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Boart Longyear Limited Company Profile

Boart Longyear is the company to call if you need to dig yourself out of a big hole -- literally. The company manufactures drilling machinery and provides services to mining, energy, and infrastructure companies worldwide. Although the majority of Boart Longyear's business is geared toward mining activities, the company also caters to industrial businesses that utilize its hard metal and diamond technologies. The company, which was founded in 1936 to develop new ways to make use of Anglo American's excess boart (lowgrade natural diamond), now operates worldwide.