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Earlier this month, the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) launched its first sustainability report in the presence of Governor Cathy Berx and many other relevant stakeholders. This sustainability report was one of the objectives of the Master Plan 2020, which the sector launched in 2012. The English version of the report is now available on the AWDC website.
Like other sectors and companies the national and international diamond sector is an attractive target for cyber criminals.
Over the past number of weeks several Antwerp and international based diamond companies have been victims of a failed, foiled or successful cyber crime.
The Antwerp festival’s tenth edition will be celebrated with fitting festivities. AWDC took great pleasure in participating in the organization of this event and gave 300 festival participants a unique glance into the diamond world and an exclusive chance to win a diamond.
On Tuesday 15 July 2014, H.E. Raoul Delcorde, incoming Belgian Ambassador to Canada, visited the Antwerp diamond sector. Ari Epstein (AWDC CEO), Christiaan Van Doninck (Head of Business Development) and Karla Basselier (Head of Public Affairs) received the delegation. H.E. Delcorde was given a tour of the Diamond Office, the Antwerp Diamond Tender Facility and the HRD diamond lab.
Bloomberg News this week reported that Firestone Diamonds selects Antwerp as the market to sell stones from its Liqhobong mine in Lesotho, further confirming the diamond center as the preferred point of sale for diamond producers worldwide. The sales in Antwerp will take place in the form of electronic tenders.
Fusion Alternatives will be holding its July KAO Rough Diamond Tender in cooperation with I. Hennig in Antwerp between July 18-25.
We kindly invite you to two exclusive networking events, on 14 October 2014 in Shanghai, organized by the AWDC in the framework of the mission to Shanghai and Singapore, organized by the City of Antwerp.
We kindly invite you to four exclusive networking events, organized by the AWDC in the framework of the Belgian Princely Mission to Malaysia & Singapore from 22 until 28 November, in the presence of HRH Princess Astrid of Belgium, organized by Flanders Investment & Trade.
