[Jewelry making - Article 00009] - [Orchid] Help: lapidary

[Sandeep Saxena]

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    Hi! Background; We are a small NGO based in India. . We run projects
    on employment generation for women, girls and unemployed youths
    living below poverty line. 

    The plan is sanctioned and in about a month, we are going to start a
    lapidary Training cum Production centre, which will later expand
    into rural areas also. In this project, we start with 45 faceting
    machines for colored gemstones/ CZ faceting. 

    Now, as a planner and promoter, I am worried about the marketing/
    consumption of faceted stones produced by us. Please advise; 

    1.  Is there any craft/ jewelry product in your mind for value
    addition, which we can think of manufacture in-house for easy
    domestic/foreign market? I had in mind of producing diamond/ colored
    stone studded chains (continuous type). From where I could get more
    information? 

    2.  Can we get bulk faceting contracts? how?? where??? I think after
    one year, when the project expands we could produce 2.5 M faceted
    pieces annually. 

    3.  Is there any specific machine for fastest faceting of CZ ? 

    4.  Any other suggestions are most welcome 

    eagerly waiting for your replies. 

Thanks in advance
Sandeep Saxena


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