JAN 28th 2013-Starting yesterday 27th of january, the fair features  not only the highest number of exhibitors ever, 80, but  becomes a truly global event with buyers delegations attending from North America, China, the Russian Federation, the Middle East and, of course Europe.

When in February 2010 the Antwerp Diamond Trade Fair (ADTF) opened for its first edition, anticipation was high: it was the first time in more than four hundreds years of Antwerp’s rich diamond history that the Scheldt City’s diamantaires threw the door of their bourses’ trading halls wide open for jewelers to come in and get a taste of what usually had remained hidden: the widest possible selection of polished diamonds in the world. For its fourth edition, the organizers ambitiously have resolved to invite high end diamond buyers’ delegation from all over the world.

“Once there I realized that while I had Known quite a bit about Antwerp’s diamond industry, at the Antwerp Diamond Trade Fair I was afforded access to a variety and choice of goods I had never been exposed to before” said a German jeweler who had attended the ADTF.

Henry BORZI