“Kristall Production Corporation” JSC, Smolensk, Russia

A. V. Romankov, Chief Technologist, phone: +7(4812) 20–01–10

“Kristall” Production Corporation is the largest manufacturer of cut diamonds in Russia and one of the largest manufacturers in Europe. For the purpose of ensuring the marketable competitiveness, the company holds the global technical re-equipment. It is necessary for the production of “Premium” category cut diamonds, with wide spectrum of qualititative-colour characteristics. The mass of such cut diamonds varies from 0,01 to 10,00 carat and more. These cut diamonds have traditional circular faceted shape and various fasntasy faceted shapes. The long-term program of technical refit and re-equipment was calculated for the period till 2018. First of all, this program concerns the basic production stages: lining-out, cutting, chipping and faceting. Each of these stages is the part of the process of transformation of diamond into the high-quality cut diamond.