What we do

ADEX Platform AG makes agreements with governments in Africa to form equal partnerships and creates local ADEX companies in the participating countries. These companies will manage the procedures for selling the diamonds and other types of gemstones on the ADEX Platform including scanning, cutting, polishing, blockchain tracing, and data input.

ADEX’s method and sales system brings diamonds and other gemstones to market much more quickly and efficiently than currently done. The rough and cut as well as polished diamonds and other gemstones are sold directly on the online platform. This efficiency will reduce costs of bringing rough as well as cut and polished stones to sale through both the reduction in time (which equals better cash flow) and costs of the extra intermediate steps and parties (more parties needing financial outputs) and thus ultimately result in stable prices over time, which is better for all links in the industry.

When purchasing diamonds or other gemstones from the platform, customers can therefore instantly feel comfortable knowing exactly where their purchased stones are from, on what journey it has been, and that the stones are fair trade and conflict free.

ADEX Platform is a transparent, low threshold, equitable and widely accessible diamond as well as other types of gemstones platform. At ADEX we believe that each rough stone is unique and reflects a rich history of its country of origin. ADEX introduces a genuine transformation to the way diamonds and other gemstones are purchased by allowing buyers to acquire the exact product they desire directly from African mines for the best possible, fair and transparent price for both the African country and the buyers.

As a customer on the ADEX Platform you can choose to have your purchased rough diamond or other type of gemstone above 1 carat cut and polished locally in the African producing countries in the ADEX daughter companies using the DaVinci automated laser cutting and shaping system from Switzerland that uses water to cool the surface while cutting, thereby significantly reducing the risk of the stone cracking.

The Why, Where, What and How of ADEX

Positive disruption

The world, as we know it, has changed. It will keep changing. This is also true for the global diamond and gemstone industry and trade. That’s why we believe that a positive disruption to the method of sales of diamonds and other gemstones using new advanced Swiss technology, will be the key to the industry’s future.

Equal Partnership for Success

We also believe that the key to successful growth in the diamond and gemstone industry includes equal public-private partnerships that will allow each African diamond and other types of gemstones producing countries to tell their own story.

Ethical Production

In recent years, consumers’ concern about the products they buy, their provenance, and the ethics of production processes have become topics that no industry can continue to ignore. Keywords and concepts such as decent workers’ pay and rights, corporate social responsibility, transparency, accountability, and fair trade are now at the forefront of consumers’ minds. This is also true for the diamond and in general gemstone supply pipeline.

Why Now? Innovative Technology

Why now? Because now we can. The world is becoming more technology driven and this is vital to a sustainable and profitable development.

Long-term View

To successfully trade in the long term, the African diamond and other types of gemstones mining sector needs a transparent, low threshold, equitable, and widely accessible platform such as ADEX Platform. The current accelerated adoption of technologies and digital tools throughout the diamond and other gemstones supply pipeline enables ADEX to achieve the objectives mentioned above.

Value Adding

With the implementation of the ADEX Platform trading model, various aspects of value-adding processes will come into play. These processes will fulfill political and financial aspirations and objectives, and guarantee country branding of the diamonds and other gemstones produced. With both country branding and origin traceability, the participating African countries will gain direct control of their diamond and other gemstones production and consequently enhance the reputational and emotional added value of these diamonds and other gemstones in the downstream markets.

Furthermore, all the participating African countries now have the unique opportunity to cut and polish their diamonds and other gemstones locally in the ADEX offices using new Swiss technology that significantly optimizes the time from ‘mine to finger’.

International Expertise

ADEX has engaged a group of international diamond industry professionals and experts committed to the ADEX structure and objectives. ADEX Platform AG has already been actively operating in Switzerland. The establishment of local ADEX companies and operations will follow in accordance with the agreements in each participating African country.

Loyalty and Focus

ADEX will initially market rough as well as cut and polished diamonds and other types of gemstones. Following the successful implementation of these diamond and other gemstone sales processes, ADEX intends to develop strategies together with the local governments for other natural resources as well as other value-added processes in the downstream market.

Transparency and Integrity

ADEX operates in a fully transparent and compliant manner, ensuring its operational integrity.

UN Sustainable Development Goals

ADEX commits to the UN sustainable development goals and works actively to improve: SDG 1 by actively contributing to remove poverty in the Countries in which we form equal public-private-partnerships, SDG 8 to foster and create decent work conditions and create economic growth, to SDG 10 and to reduction of inequality and to SDG 17, by forming Partnerships to support the SDGs with governments, political institutions and private partners.