The car made in Antwerp, can pose threat for gem cutters of diamonds in Surat

Antwerp, the world's largest center of trade diamonds and brilliants, can provide sleepless nights for the qualified gem cutters in the center of processing of diamonds in Surat. The research center of the Antwerp world diamond center (Antwerp World Diamond Centre, AWDC) presented revolutionary technology which completely automates and accelerates process of a facet of diamonds without participation of human hands.

The Antwerp research technical center for diamonds (to Wetenschappelijk en Technisch OnderzoeksCentrum voor of Diamant, WTOCD) succeeded in development of technologies which completely automates process of a facet and is besides capable to reduce time for this operation at 10-20 times.

Brilliants granilis manually on a grinding circle throughout centuries. In the 1960th years Antwerp became the modern leader in trade brilliants, in particular thanks to a large number of gem cutters - about 10 000 people, - which worked in Antwerp. However within the last decades the number of gem cutters in Antwerp was reduced because of high salaries to Belgium, and it led to emergence of the Indian Surat as the global center for a facet of diamonds.

Now about 14 of 15 diamonds extracted in the world granyatsya in Surat and other parts of the Indian province State of Gujarat, including Amreli's regions and Bhavnagar. Annual export of brilliants from India is estimated at 21 billion dollars.

Needed about 10 years of researches that WTOCD, at last, was succeeded to develop a front line technology under the name "Fenix" who allows to facet now a stone for half an hour.

the Director general Epshteyn Ari (Ari Epstein) in this regard told

to AWDC: "This opening in a root changes process of a facet of diamonds, and "Fenix" ​​ can change a situation in the diamond industry Antwerp. This technology gives to Antwerp opportunity to return back part of a facet to this city. Considering that fact that business by such huge volumes of diamond raw materials, and 90 percent from this volume of stones granyatsya in other place, opportunity quickly granite stones here here is done, and then to sell them from Antwerp, can cause the real revolution in ours to trade diamonds and brilliants".

the Analyst of the diamond industry of Aniruddkh Lidbide (Aniruddha Lidbide) noticed

about it: "The new revolutionary car becomes a big problem for handicraft methods of processing of diamonds gem cutters in Surat. Now gem cutters of Surat and State of Gujarat are leaders in production stones from almost jeweler quality to soliter. But the car developed by AWDC, in long-term prospect will change this scenario".