Nosiphiwo Mzamo: South Africa’s State Diamond Trader to buy diamonds from other African countries

South Africa’s State Diamond Trader (SDT) is set to buy diamonds from other African countries starting with Botswana. SDT’s chief executive Nosiphiwo Mzamo told Rough & Polished’s Mathew Nyaungwa at the country’s inaugural diamond show, which...

10 february 2025

Edahn Golan: Halo effect from lab-grown diamonds driving high demand for large, 2-carat natural stones in the U.S.

Edahn Golan, owner of the eponymous Edahn Golan Diamond Research and Data, told Rough & Polished's Mathew Nyaungwa in an exclusive interview that their research found a halo effect from lab-grown diamonds. He said the trend among lab-grown diamond...

27 january 2025

Paul Zimnisky: We will see a modest recovery in natural diamond demand and prices in 2025

According to Paul Zimnisky, an independent diamond and jewellery analyst and consultant based in the New York metro area, the natural diamond industry will see a modest recovery in demand and prices this year. Zimnisky said a moderate recovery would...

13 january 2025

African Diamond Council makes traceability its top priority, wants KP to embrace Authentia.io

The African Diamond Council (ADC) has made traceability its foremost priority and has been contributing to a traceability solution called Authentia.io for the last three and a half years, which is now ready to globally satisfy the traceability...

16 december 2024

Gaetano Cavalieri: CIBJO leading the jewelry industry on critical issues

One of the gem and jewellery industry’s most well-known and respected personalities, Dr. Gaetano Cavalieri, has been the president of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO), for the past 23 years. CIBJO is the oldest international organisation...

09 december 2024

Nornickel improves procurement with assistance from TEK-Torg platform

05 march 2024

Norilsk Nickel has entered into an agreement with the Federal Electronic Platform TEK-Torg in order to develop and improve the procurement and bidding system in electronic format.

The companies will jointly expand the level of digitalization of Norilsk Nickel’s procurement activities using the TEK-Torg infrastructure, provide information support for specialists in procurement, implement new services and hold educational events.

“For the first time ever, we decided to use an external electronic trading platform in order to centrally inform the market about the needs of the Norilsk Nickel group of companies in a "single window" format. We hope that this approach will allow us to attract new suppliers to meet our needs,” said Alexander Fedotov, director of Norilsk Nickel’s logistics department.

The TEK-Torg is a universal trading platform for conducting governmental and commercial procurement, as well as property auctions, and small purchases.

Theodor Lisovoy, Editor in Chief of the European bureau, Rough&Polished