Lemon TechnoMist and Bonas recently announced the opening of a Rough Diamond Collection Centre for rough diamond design and manufacturing services in Antwerp. %% The collection centre will use the latest Lexus-OctoNus exclusive 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 %% This collection centre will bring value to the following diamantaires: $$ - {{Boutique and niche manufacturers}} will be able to outsource the cutting and polishing processes to the market leader in processing highly valuable rough stones. They will reduce their manufacturing and operational costs, while optimising the value of the final polished output. $$ - {{Large-scale manufacturers}} will benefit from the same advantages as boutique and niche manufacturers, but 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. %% The services offered are particularly valuable for rough diamonds above 3 carats or for fancy colour diamonds. %%