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Actino Software presents new tools for application of ISO standards

2011-09-09T06:09:00.001-07:00

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Actino Software presents new tools for application of ISO standards

Euskirchen, the 09/02/2011: Actino Software presents at the DMS Expo in Stuttgart various desktop and server applications and SDKs, which allow an ISO-compliant lean production, processing and validation of PDF documents. At the booth of callas software (Hall 7, Stand B51) show the PDF-specialists, such as support companies, manufacturers and integrators to global standards and use for themselves.

The ISO has adopted various standards, which enables a safe output, distribution, reuse, and archiving of PDF documents. The normal PDF standard offers an enormous range of functions, which may well be in conflict with the requirements of specific applications. Therefore, there are strict rules as a PDF need for archiving (PDF / A), for the transformation pressure (PDF / VT), for barrier-free access (PDF / UA) or print (PDF / X) look.

With the help of various applications such as pdfaPilot the ISO-compliant documents can be generated, and the observance of the standards are reviewed. In addition, the files will be optimized as needed or further processed. The tools are adapted to full automation and maximum configurability, so that integration is possible in any type of workflow or DMS.

In addition to the observance of standards is ensured with the support of the ISO standards and a high quality. Times are in various PDF creation tools from different vendors there are unfortunately a lot of bandwidth in the technical description and users are often surprised that their PDF is no longer open or process can be. All ISO standards make for a binding level that guarantees an easy reuse.
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"We assist companies in implementing the supplier standards." Says Michael Karbe, managing director of the Actino Software GmbH "Compliance with the standards requires a deeper understanding of PDF, the vision of the entire process, from creation to storage and the correction in the case of complications. In Stuttgart, we demonstrate tools and technologies that enable a smooth entry. "

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Actino Software GmbH Company Profile
Actino Software GmbH has set itself the goal to assist companies and institutions in the implementation and use of PDF and XPS standards. The company develops and markets programs for creating and editing of the portable data format since the PDF-revolution in the early 90s. As a seller the company is the world's leading provider of PDF and XPS products represents the use of pre-press through to archiving, to the Office of Web Services or the documentation to software development. Our philosophy is "keep it simple". Thanks to years of experience from numerous projects and cooperation with renowned partners can help with Actino (almost) every PDF and XPS questions, communicate ideas and recommendations.

Diamonds: Wedding jewelry as an investment

2011-09-05T06:56:00.001-07:00

While gold is a deposit insurance in low-interest periods, you should buy rather than diamond jewelry because as an investment. For private investors trading is difficult and expensive.
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Vienna. In the face of fluctuating stock markets and low interest rates investors are increasingly looking for alternative investments. Besides gold and diamonds, to many real estate grab. This year alone, prices are set for some polished diamonds have risen by 50 percent. The year before that it has been a double-digit growth. "That's true for some diamonds," said the jeweler Anton Heldwein. Above all, very little gems that you need for dials of some watches, would be substantially more expensive. "I do not know how long this trend will continue, he may be turning again," he says.
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Will you invest in something Wertbeständiges, he advises rather larger stones of one or two carats (one carat equals 0.2 grams). "Larger diamonds are more valuable, because they are rare," said Heldwein. At the Dorotheum is observed already for some time a strong demand for gems in the order of between two and four carats.

Buy only with certificate

A Einkaräter costs depending on the cut (cut), color (color) and purity (Clarity) - is a flawless diamond, if it becomes clear even with tenfold magnifier no crack or crystal in the crystal - 3000-30000 €. A trader only has a few diamonds at hand, it is also possible that he asked for one more stone, Astrid Fialka says the Dorotheum. "The issue of availability also plays a role in determining award," she explains.

The white color of the diamond is also important. According to Fialka should not be worse than the quality level "H". The color scale ranges from "D" (pure white) to "O" (tinted). "Before we dispense with color and clarity, it is better to buy a diamond with less weight," advises Fialka. The trend, namely in the direction of good quality.

However, there are stones that are colored by nature. They are called in the jargon as "fancy diamonds". They come about in blue or pink. They are often scarce and therefore valuable. To a layman, the value of a diamond is hard to determine. You should buy only from reputable diamond dealers, who have been around a long leave, or seek advice from the jeweler. Also, the Dorotheum has a gem lab. "It is also important that an internationally recognized certificate is there," added Held wine.

Diamond needs should be abandoned in any case on the Internet. "That by itself, because you can not recognize as a layman, if a stone is synthetic. Here one can only rely on a specialist. "

To speculate on capital gains but do not own the bling. There is no public exchange on which they could act as a private person. In addition, they-unlike gold sales tax.

If you buy a diamond to a jeweler, you pay 20 percent VAT. "To this must be the price rise only once, so you can sell the diamonds at a profit," said Heldwein. He advises, buy diamond jewelry, especially as to bear. "If the value increases sharply, says you should expect it not." Diamonds mounted in the safe could also not play to their appeal.

As a "safe haven" when it really hard hergeht, would be diamonds, but are better than gold: To transport 800,000 euros have to carry forty pounds of gold - or eight grams of diamonds.

Who wants to define itself not exactly a gem, but get exposure to securities, is not so easy to find the diamond like gold. Securities that represent the diamond price, such as "Exchange Traded Funds" or certificates do not exist. "I do me at all difficult to describe diamonds as pure asset class," says Alfred Grusch of Pioneer Investments.

Mining stocks are lagging behind

However, one can invest in lean mining stocks. This one has the choice between pure diamond company or large commodity companies which mine including diamonds. The latter include some Anglo American (ISIN: US03485P2011), Rio Tinto (GB0007188757) and BHP Billiton (AU000000BHP4). The shares of these companies but rather move in unison with the stock market as the diamond price. For a year they are slightly in the positive as well as the S & P 500 index. The company Petra Diamonds and Harry Winston diamonds are pure groups. This business strategy is clear though, because companies do not work but other segments, is also the risk of larger investments.

What should you consider when ... Diamonds

Tip 1

Trade. Unlike gold, there is no public market for diamonds, may also act on the private investor. One must therefore find a buyer who pays the required price. Even when you shelled out 20 percent VAT jeweler. To this value, the diamond prices rise at least to ensure that the system expects in the first place. Because the rising demand from Asia, are likely to attract the price-the extent is uncertain.

Tip 2

Criteria. The value of a diamond results from the "four Cs": carat (weight), cut (cut), color (color) and Clarity (purity). A Einkaräter (0.2 grams) of high quality currently costs about 30,000 €. To assess purity and polish, however, extremely difficult for lay people. Buyers should always seek logistic distributors who know in this profession, or seek advice from the jeweler can. Certificates can also help.

Tip 3

Alternatives. Who, given the growing demand from China and India on a diamond boom, but he believes wants to acquire any physical precious stones can also draw on mining stocks. Broad-based companies such as Anglo American, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to build not only diamonds, but various commodities. Who is willing to take risks, has the opportunity to invest in pure diamond companies.

uncut diamonds softened up during grinding

2010-12-02T10:39:00.000-08:00

The diamond is the hardest material in the world. But why does the crystal of carbon grind nonetheless valuable gems? Quantum physicists have now found out a surprising answer: the carbon atoms are "liquid".

A team of German researchers has discovered why diamonds - can grind at all - after all, the hardest material in the world: When polishing its surface is soft, so to speak. It is formed between the stone and the diamond chips of the grinding wheel, a layer in which the individual carbon atoms are much less tightly bound together than in the crystal itself, this layer can then either be mechanically using the disk or removed chemically by the action of atmospheric oxygen . "The moment in which the diamond is cut, the diamond is not a diamond more," Michael Moser brings the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, the results of the study to the point.

The researchers were able to show that using complex calculations, in which they simulated the quantum-mechanical behavior of individual carbon atoms. Thanks to this procedure will be answered in future also other previously unresolved questions about friction between solids processes, the team writes to Moser in the journal Nature Materials.

Diamond is because of its extreme hardness in the industry often used as a cutting tool and as a component of polishing paste. But even as he is sought after gem: For centuries grind and polish the rough diamonds to diamonds experienced craftsmen and other forms - with the help of diamond chips on a cast iron disk. However, this sensitivity is called for: A diamond can in fact not the same polish on each side well. Some facets occur easily and are easily smooth and flawless, while others seem to resist the grinding. In such places can be very difficult to generate high-quality surfaces. Scientists have been looking for an explanation for this phenomenon - as a response to the much more fundamental question of why the surface of the hard diamond ever respond to treatment with fragments of the same material, which is so sought after buy diamond buyers from all over the world.

Moser and his colleagues have now developed a new computational method that they could determine exactly when and how atoms detach from the surface of the diamond. They found that results from the rapid friction between the diamond chips and the uncut diamond grinding a new, less solid carbon layer on the uncut diamonds. In it, the atoms are not strictly arranged in planes as in the crystal, but are rather confused. When polishing the soft layer is then removed in two ways: First, the sharp-edged diamond chips on the grinding scrape out small carbon particles. Second, the oxygen of the air, the carbon atoms to attack the new shift, because their bonds to their neighbors, much weaker than previously in the crystal lattice. Thus, the carbon atoms disappear, so to speak from the solid, because carbon dioxide gas is produced. By the model can also explain the different good polishing results on the various pages of Stone: The soft layer is not everywhere the same speed. Where it occurs rapidly, can easily drag the diamond, and where they are reluctant to buy, the processing is more difficult.

The crucial factor is how the different levels of the diamond crystal are oriented to the grinding wheel. It therefore makes a difference whether the crystal planes are perpendicular to the grinding surface or whether the disc's more like an angle on the crystal surface, the researchers discovered. The model is not only a milestone in the diamond research, says Peter Gumbsch, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials. It also demonstrates, can be accurately described using modern methods such as friction and wear processes. The question of how it was possible to process diamond is ultimately only one of myriad unresolved issues of material sciences, he stresses.

Russian diamonds will bring billions

2010-10-15T06:42:00.000-07:00

Russia is the IPO of the state diamond company Alrosa before you want to bring to 1.7 billion euros.
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The Russian state diamond company Alrosa could take a media report, a public offering of up to 2.3 billion dollars (1.7 billion euros). Alrosa wants next year 20 to 25 percent of its shares into circulation, reported business daily Vedomosti said on Monday, citing unspecified parties. JP Morgan has estimated the value of the company at 7.3 to 9 billion dollars.

With the proceeds from the IPO should be the reduction of the gem should be encouraged. In September, Alrosa had announced that it expects the current year with revenues of 3.34 billion dollars. Alrosa shares about a quarter of the world's uncut diamond trading.

Small diamonds manual

2010-08-11T04:16:00.001-07:00

Diamonds were the four C's of diamonds as a classification and should mark their quality: Clarity, Color, Cut and Carat. Over time, however, has been joined yet another C and that's a good thing. "Confidence" certified diamonds, are financed with the proceeds not of conflicts, they apply so as a so-called blood diamonds.

Clarity refers to the purity of the diamond. In the majority of diamonds come with a magnifying glass for the specialist very small, natural features to be seen. These margins prevent the light can penetrate freely the stone. The smaller and has less of a diamond margins, the more valuable and pure, he is also known. Is categorized in the following way

to detect at 10x magnification:

Flawless - if
Very, very small features - vvsi
Very small features - vsi
Small features - si

visible to the naked eye:

Significant features - p1
Major features - p2
Coarse features - p3

Under the paint color of the diamond is classified. The more colorless the more valuable! This is divided by the English name of the subdivision or to GIA standards. The colorless, blue and white diamonds are denoted by river and take the letters D and E. They are followed by fine white (Top Wesselton) with the letters F and G, white (Wesselton) called H and slightly tinted white (Top Crystal) with the letters I and J. Then the follow up to the tinted shades (yellow) diamonds with the letter Z.

The cut makes the diamond until his incredible charisma. The ideal cut is the brilliant-cut, because he only brings optimum brilliance and color splitting, so the polished finish and polished diamonds can rekindle his true fire. Fundamental importance of both the number of facets (56 facets is brilliant), and their distribution on the top and bottom of the stone, and their symmetrical arrangement in size and its angle to the Rundistenebene. In short, it must all vote and requires a high degree of skill, so that a diamond is given the perfect finish.

Carat refers to the weight of an uncut diamond. A Carat is equal to 0.2 grams A Carat is in turn divided into 100 points. A diamond with 50 points thus has 0.5 carat weighs 0.1 grams and

As mentioned initially called Confidence the origin of the diamond. This certification only carry diamonds that were mined by the criteria of the international Kimberley Agreement and will not provide funding for weapons and wars.

uncut diamonds brokers

2010-06-28T05:48:00.000-07:00

Anyone that has any kinds of diamonds for sale should make contact at diamond brokers. There will be interest into cut, rough, uncut and even jewelery diamonds.

A beautiful look at the world's most alluring gem.
With images as fabulous as their highly prized subject, Diamonds is about the science and glamour of this magnificent gemstone.
The book takes a look at why we desire diamonds, where their characteristic fire comes from and why they are seen as the ultimate symbol of love. Known in pop culture today as bling, diamonds play a role in fashion and celebrity as well as jewelry. Also revealed are some of the amazing properties of diamonds that make it a vital material for modern technology and medicine as well as a "girl's best friend".
Filled with color photographs throughout, Diamonds features six chapters: - Desire: why diamonds are so highly valued and their properties - The Hunt: the diamond rushes - The Cut: how the rocks are transformed into jewels - Fame: some famous diamonds and their legends - The Extreme: hardness, transparency, conductivity, durability - Design: jewelry, antique and modern, on clothing and in film.
Designed for the luxury-lover or the mineral collector, Diamonds is sure to please.

diamond mining equipment

2010-03-29T07:32:00.000-07:00

We would be interested into more offers of diamond mining equipment. If you goth anything to do with mining equipment like crushers, excavators, dump tracks and equipment for analysis, please make contact for us. We will continue to gather information on the subject.

Kimberlites: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology

2010-03-04T08:29:00.000-08:00

Kimberlite is the geological formation holding diamonds. This book Kimberlites: Mineralogy, Geochemistry, and Petrology is about the mineralogy, geochemistry and petrology of kimberlites. This is all that the prospecting geologist needs to know, when engaging into diamond mining.

uncut diamond evaluation book

2010-03-02T23:39:00.000-08:00

The Valuation and Investment Merits of Diamonds is the first book that deals with the economics of diamonds, specifically with the determinants of diamond prices. The period of 1978-1983 was chosen in order to shed light on the dramatic drop in diamond prices. Khoury clearly identifies these determinants, distinguishing them from one another by the level of impact they have on diamond prices. This book includes: a quick review of the characteristics of cut and uncut diamonds, the financial performance of DeBeers in a declining market, the economic structure of the diamond industry, the method for exercising economic control over the diamond market, the economic variables influencing diamond prices, and the modeling of diamond prices and the testing of the model utilizing advanced statistical methods.

large uncut diamond sold by Petra

2010-02-26T08:50:00.000-08:00

LONDON (Reuters) – Petra Diamonds sold a 507-carat uncut diamond for $35.3 million on Friday, breaking a record as the highest price ever paid for an uncut diamond.

Analysts had estimated the value of the stone, one of the 20 biggest high-quality uncut diamonds, at around $25 million.

"It is fitting that the Cullinan Heritage should achieve a sale price of $35.3 million, the highest sale price on record ever achieved for a uncut diamond, as it has the potential to produce one of the world's most important polished gems," Chief Executive Johan Dippenaar said.
London-listed Petra said in a statement the gem was purchased in a tender by Chow Tai Fook Jewelry Co Ltd in Hong Kong.
Proceeds will help boost Petra's profit for its fiscal year to end-June after the firm swung to a first-half profit on higher production and sales.

AIM-listed Petra found the gem last September at its 74 percent owned Cullinan mine in South Africa, which it bought from sector giant De Beers in 2007.

The Cullinan mine has been the source of many large diamonds, including the world's largest uncut diamond -- the Cullinan -- at 3,106 carats. That gem was cut into the Star of Africa stones that are now set in Britain's Crown Jewels.

Petra was a member of a consortium that paid $148 million when buying the Cullinan mine from De Beers, which is 45 percent owned by mining group Anglo American.

(adapted from Eric Onstad; Editing by David Holmes)

uncut diamonds, internal and external features Nizam Peters (Illustrator, Photographer, Editor)

2010-02-11T01:00:00.000-08:00

We are looking for a good book review on Rough Diamonds, Internal and External Features by Nizam Peters, who was the Illustrator, Photographer, Editor of this book.

If you have written this book and feel competent and willing to write a review, please let us know.

Clean Diamond Trade Act

2010-02-06T02:39:00.000-08:00

Has anyone written a good review of the following text?

Clean Diamond Trade Act

If you have a good review on this, please forward it to us.

uncut diamonds india

2008-10-04T07:43:00.000-07:00

Uncut diamonds in india.

Shillpa Purii

Watch out for reasonably-priced jewellery in 18K and 22K gold, studded with diamond, coloured stones, and uncut diamonds in traditional jadau and kundan work. Shillpa’s antique gold and wooden jewellery with 22K kundan are versatile and perfect for any occasion.

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sell uncut diamonds

2008-09-25T13:28:00.000-07:00

There are miners that want to sell uncut diamonds. If you are a serious buyers for uncut diamonds, please make contact at sell uncut diamonds.

digging for uncut diamonds

2008-09-25T08:10:00.000-07:00

Diamonds are found in many african countries. Many of them extracted via artisanal mining. Buying and selling uncut diamonds can be an exciting business. There are some statuatory obstacles like the Kimberley process certification sheme. Some argue that these obstacles are just designed to keep prices high. In fact many Africans make a living with artisanal mining and depend on the sales of diamonds. Admistrative hurdlese make it more difficult for them to sell the fruits of their labor.

uncut diamonds from Angola

2008-09-20T05:03:00.000-07:00

Angolan uncut diamonds are for sale,. These are amounts in the 100 carats range. If you are interested into diamonds from Angola, please make contact at uncut diamonds.

uncut diamonds

2008-09-19T11:49:00.000-07:00

Info and offers on uncut diamonds. If you are interested into uncut diamonds. please visit uncut diamonds.