CIBJO & Turkish Jewelry Exporters Association Ink MoU For Business Growth

The heads of the Environment Jewelry Confederation (CIBJO) and the Turkish Jewelry Exporters’ Affiliation (TJEA) have concluded a Memorandum of Understanding, pledging the intent of the two organisations to cooperate closely in nurturing the growth of equally the Turkish and intercontinental jewellery, gemstone and important metals industries.

The MoU was signed on 21st January, 2023, in Vicenza for the duration of the Vicenzaoro exhibit, by CIBJO President Gaetano Cavalieri and TJEA President Burak Yakin, in the presence of a big group of Turkish jewellery market associates and CIBJO officials.

According to the agreement, CIBJO and TJEA will create programmes to teach users of the gemstone, cherished metals and jewellery sectors in Türkiye about the concepts of moral enterprise procedures, responsible sourcing, sustainability, Company Social Accountability and harmonized standards and nomenclature. These will be centered on the CIBJO Blue Guide collection, which covers diamonds, colored gemstones, pearls, coral, cherished metals, the operation of gem labs and rules of responsible sourcing, and other direction files, such as CIBJO’s laboratory-developed diamond guide. These kinds of programmes will be offered at functions structured by TJEA.

Academic packages shipped less than the framework of this arrangement could include things like seminars, workshops and conferences, and graduates of these functions would receive diplomas bearing the official seal of CIBJO.

It also was agreed that CIBJO and TJEA will cooperate in the translation of chosen CIBJO Blue Guides and steerage documents into Turkish, for distribution in Türkiye. They also will be created offered on the CIBJO web-site.

Yakin emphasised that this agreement has historic significance for the Turkish jewellery field, which is the two a leading-10 jewelry exporter and a jewelry market place. “In a globally interconnected business these as ours, protecting interactions with colleagues in other nations around the world is of paramount worth. To be equipped to communicate and operate alongside one another, we want to see eye to eye on benchmarks, functioning rules, terminology and ethics. CIBJO is the single discussion board where by all these are addressed by all worldwide gamers, and we are delighted to be able to adapt what is learned to the Turkish atmosphere, and at the exact time have our voice heard internationally,” the TJEA President reported.

“Türkiye is right now a lynchpin in our industry, not only as a key company and purchaser of jewelry, but also as a gateway to the growing markets of Central Asia, Jap Europe, the Balkans and the Jap Mediterranean, for which it serves as a principal buying and selling and creation hub,” said Dr. Cavalieri.

“The Globe Jewellery Confederation hopes that this significant agreement not only supports the growth and advancement of the Turkish sector, and well as its enhanced involvement in the get the job done that we do, but also the enlargement of a vibrant and ethical jewelry trade during its region.”

Gaetano Cavalieri (appropriate), President of the Earth Jewelry Confederation (CIBJO) and Burak Yakin, President of the Turkish Jewelry Exporters’ Affiliation, signing the MoU concerning the organisations in Vicenza on 21st January, 2023.