Christensen Diamond Products
After retiring from football, Christensen became employed by Koebel Diamond tools, which sold diamond tools to the automotive companies in Detroit.
In 1944, Christensen went into business with his former teammate, Frank Christensen, to whom he was not related. The two men began manufacturing diamond bits as the Christensen Diamond Products Company in Salt Lake City. George was responsible for procuring diamonds for the business, eventually negotiating a direct allocation from the DeBeers diamond syndicate.
In 1946, the company introduced diamond core bits to the mining industry. The company had a technological breakthrough in the late 1940s when it perfected a tungsten carbide matrix for diamond bits at an oil field in Colorado. The two men also formed Christensen Machine Company, which later became Hughes Christensen, to manufacture precision tools and gauges for military ordnance and radar. In 1957 Christensen Diamond Products opened a manufacturing plant in Celle, West Germany to serve international markets. Eventually, the Christensens' operations became international with manufacturing plants in Canada, France, Germany, and Japan.
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