Lemon TechnoMist and Bonas, two leading establishments of the diamond industry, have opened a rough diamond collection centre in Antwerp, which will serve in manufacturing and design services for rough diamonds. The services offered are particularly valuable for rough diamonds above 3 carats or for fancy colour diamonds.

The collection centre will use the latest Lexus-OctoNus proprietary technologies and provide the following services:

-Immersion Glass-based inclusion plotting (up to VVS purity) without windowing the rough stone % - Helium M-Box inclusion plotting

- Pacor Scanner and Pacor Software-based allocation and planning

- D-to-Z colour estimation/optimisation for planned solutions, through Oxygen D-Z technology

- Fancy colour optimization

- Contract manufacturing of fancy coloured diamonds and of colourless stones above 3 carats

The collection centre is expected to srve as an asset to various clientele including: - Boutique and niche manufacturers - they will be able to outsource the cutting and polishing processes to the market leader in processing highly valuable rough stones. They will reduce their manufacturing and operational costs, while optimising the value of the final polished output.

- Large-scale manufacturers – in addition to the advantages as boutique and niche manufacturers, these clientele will also be able to better focus on their core rough articles by outsourcing their production of fancy coloured and highly valuable stones. Moreover, they will establish a benchmark for their own manufacturing facilities.

- Rough traders and mining companies will be able to auto-plot and plan their rough with the Immersion Glass and Helium Rough technologies. They will estimate precisely the expected polished output and will then be able to maximise the selling price or to decide to manufacture the rough.

Lemon TechnoMist is the world's largest firm specialising in rough diamond design and manufacturing services. Bonas is the longest established DTC brokering house, provides consultancy services and organises rough diamond sales on behalf of mining companies.