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Tonight, Wednesday August 14, 8PM, Discovery Channel UK will be broadcasting an episode of the popular show 'How do they do it', revealing how nature's most precious product is transformed from rough stone into sparkling diamond, in Antwerp,centre of diamond expertise and innovation. The episode will be repeated onFriday on Discovery's Science Channel.
AWDC, as member of the Administrative Support Mechanism (ASM), today announced the launch of the renewed KP website. The new site is highly user friendly and designed to enhance the efficiency and continuity of the KP by providing comprehensive tools and up-to-date KP knowledge and institutional memory.
As part of the “Anti Tigerkidnapping Program”, AWDC Security Office announces the next monthly ‘security awareness training session’, which will take place on Thursday August 29th.
Today’s economy requires businesses to become increasingly more transparent. That is precisely why a higher level of transparency is one of the key priorities defined in the Antwerp Diamond Masterplan, summarized in the so-called ‘fifth C’ of Compliance, Confidence and CSR. The cash payment regulations fit in perfectly with that philosophy.
Since April 16th 2012, the use of cash payments in transactions is limited by the anti-money laundering legislation to a maximum of €5,000.
Antwerp's July monthly figures indicate the Antwerp diamond business is going well. Both imports of polished and rough diamonds rose significantly compared to the same month in 2012, by 5.78% and 11.07% respectively in terms of volume. Rough imports total value even increased by a solid 30.04%. Rough exports increased by 23.02% in carats and 25.25% in value, while exports of polished diamonds slightly fell by 0.79%.
In addition, the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme Annual Report (KPCS), charged with controlling and mapping the worldwide diamond production and distribution, confirms Antwerp's leading position as the world's prime diamond trading hub.
On Friday, August 2nd 2013 the Antwerp authorities announced a breakthrough in the investigation of a tiger kidnapping that took place on October 11th 2012 in Antwerp. At that time, three men entered the home of an employee of the Indian diamond company KIRAN BVBA. While the man's wife was kept hostage, he was forced to empty the vaults of the Kiran offices in the Hoveniersstraat in the Antwerp diamond district. The total value of the stolen diamonds was estimated at US$ 13 million.
Varda Shine, executive Vice President of De Beers, visited Antwerp this week. She was in Antwerp along with senior members of the De Beers Global Sightholder Sales team for the annual Business Review Meetings with De Beers Sightholders.
Dear Sir/Madam,
It is with great pleasure that Mr. Stéphane Fischler and Mr. Ari Epstein invite you to a reception in honor of the visit to the Antwerp diamond sector of Vice-Prime Minister Johan Vande Lanotte on July 26th 2013, between 4u15 and 5u00 pm. The reception will take place in the AWDC Lounge, 9th floor, in the AWDC building, Hoveniersstraat 22, 2018 Antwerp. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis.
