GREENVILLE, SC, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Scio Diamond Technology
Corporation (OTC-BB: SCIO.OB) is pleased to announce that the
infrastructure for its Greenville, SC production facility is complete
and ready for reactor installation. This infrastructure includes
electrical backup and generation equipment, chilling capacity for
thermal regulation of the reactors, HVAC and exhaust control and the
specialty gas delivery system needed for diamond production. The
diamond-growing reactors and support equipment arrived on site several
weeks ago.
Over the next few weeks, the electrical power, process chilled water,
drainage, exhaust, and gas feeds will be attached to each of the 10
growers. The production team will then proceed through a detailed
startup phase, carefully preparing the reactors before beginning
production runs. We expect to commence production on several of the
reactors during our fiscal first quarter ending June 30.
"It seems like it has been forever since we started this process", said
Joe Lancia, Scio's CEO, "but it has only been since late December that
our production facility has been designed, built and now turned on,
ready for us to install our reactors and take them through our rigorous
commissioning phase."
New Scio employees will be coming on board in May to begin production
training. Our training effort is being led by Scio's Operations and
R&D team members, who have been assembled in Greenville for over a
month preparing for equipment installation, startup, commissioning and
initial production runs.
About SCIO Diamond
Scio Diamond will employ a patent-protected chemical vapor deposition
process to produce high-quality, single-crystal diamonds in a
controlled laboratory setting, with such diamonds referred to as
"lab-grown" or cultivated diamonds. The diamonds are intended to have
the identical chemical, physical and optical properties as diamonds
found in the earth, and the company's highly controlled manufacturing
process will enable it to produce very high-quality, high-purity, high
volume, single-crystal colorless, near colorless and fancy colored
diamonds.
Scio's technology will permit it to produce lab-grown diamond in size,
color, and quality combinations that are very rare in nature.