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RAPAPORT...
ANTWERP: Fientje Moerman, the Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade, paid a visit to Antwerp’s diamond district on Wednesday, February 7, 2007, during which she toured the HRD Antwerp Diamond Lab, one of the world’s most important providers of diamond grading reports, and was hosted by the Research Department of AWDC
The AWDC Research Department is recognised internationally as an authority in development of detection methods for treated and synthetic diamonds. In this respect, it provides crucial support to the HRD Antwerp Diamond Lab. Its team of scientists is considered a strategic asset by the Belgian diamond trade, in that is helps ensure the competitiveness of the Antwerp World Diamond Centre.
“Anwerp is proud of its outstanding scientific knowledge centre, which plays a leading role in the research of diamond treatments and synthetics. It comfortably stands alongside the very best institutes doing similar research in other parts of the world,” stated the minister.
Ms. Moerman also took the opportunity to hand a cheque of €10,000 from the AWDC to Anne De Roeck, director of “De Hoeve vzw,” which runs project providing housing and work opportunities to adults with autism and other mental handicaps. The organisation currently offers small-scale housing facilities with adapted infrastructures to 20 autistic adults, and an additional housing facility for 10 adults with other mental handicaps.
The Antwerp diamond community has a long history in investing in social projects. Income from each of the periodic Antwerp Diamond Conferences has been used to support social, medical and educational projects in the local community.
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