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Understanding Vertical Gravity Separators: How They Work and Their Applications

Dive into the mechanics and benefits of vertical gravity separators (VGS). Learn how these devices effectively separate oil, grease, and solids from water in various industries, their design features, and key applications in wastewater treatment. Explore why VGS systems are crucial for environmental compliance and efficient liquid waste management.

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Techniques For Improving Palletizing

RFID chips can be molded into the pallets to monitor locations and track inventory https://palletizing.com/. Block pallets utilize both parallel and perpendicular stringers to better facilitate efficient handling. A block pallet is also known as a "four-way" pallet, since a pallet-jack may be used from any side to move it. Slightly more complex hardwood block pallets, plastic pallets and metal palletizing can be lifted from all four sides.

The production of pallets accounts for 43% of hardwood and 15% of softwood usage in the U.S. A number of different organizations and associations around the world work towards establishing and promulgating standards for pallets. Some strive to develop universal standards for pallet dimensions, types of material used in construction, performance standards, and testing procedures.

Bulk boxes are closely related; they are usually large separate boxes shipped on pallets. Plastic pallets are produced and used widely in the U.S. and Europe, spurred by the adoption of the ISPM 15.

A full comparison of wood vs plastic can be made by a life cycle analysis. Plastic pallets can cost 10 times as much as hardwood pallets and even more expensive compared to cheap expendable softwood pallets.

Other organizations choose to focus on pallet standards for a specific industry or type of material . The Australian standard pallet is a pallet size commonly found in Australia but found rarely elsewhere. It is a square pallet originally made of hardwood 1,165 mm × 1,165 mm (45.87 in × 45.87 in) in size which fits perfectly in the RACE container of the Australian Railway. They are ill-suited for the standard 20 feet (6.1 m) and 40 feet ISO shipping containers used around the globe. Australian standard pallets are usually manufactured in hardwood, but 1165 × 1165 mm pallets can also be manufactured using lighter timber suitable for use as disposable pallets using 16 millimetre boards.

How To Pack Your Pallet

Since there often isn't room to drive a forklift truck into the plane to load the pallets, the load floor is equipped with electric rollers. Once a pallet is pushed through the doorway, the electric rollers are used to move it to the front or rear of the cargo hold.

Fluctuations in material prices can have a bearing on pallet price, as typically over half the price of a pallet is in the wood and another 5%-10% is in the fasteners. Options to hold down price include choosing recycled or hybrid pallets or considering a review of your pallet specifications and applications.

By using design software such as Best Pallet or Palletizing Design System, it's possible that you can find a cheaper pallet design that will suit your needs. Pallets are essential for operations and efficiency in many businesses. Pallet price can be impacted by material choice, new vs. used, pay-per-use or purchase, pallet size, quality, regional availability, and so on. So, after getting to know the Lowes manager, and the outdoor manager, I asked if I could have some of their pallets.

This will help you create a stable base with a lower center of gravity. It also helps you avoid crushing any lighter, less-dense goods. As compared to non-palletized dispatching of cargo consignments, pallet shipping is definitely costly. However their cost-effectiveness by effectively minimising the potential risks and damages to the consignments makes the pallet cargo ships a must-have in the shipping cargo dispatching domain. The use of pallets greatly depends on the type of cargo that is to be transported.

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Aluminum and stainless steel pallets can sell for $200 or more. Wood composite or presswood pallets typically have a price point competitive with recycled wood pallets, with the added benefits of nestability and not requiring heat treatment for international shipment. Presswood pallets are also available in several sizes, including popular quarter- and half-pallet models.

Wood pallets can pose serious bio-hazard risks as they are susceptible to bacterial and chemical contamination, such as E. coli problems in food and produce transportation, and even insect infestation, and thus the need for ISPM 15.

Discarded wooden pallets should not be used for firewood or crafts unless it has been determined that the wood in these pallets has not been treated with wood preservatives, fungicides and/or pesticides. Various pyrethrins and propiconazole are common treatments for wooden pallets. In addition, imported palletized goods are routinely fumigated with highly toxic pesticides. During use, harmful materials or chemicals also may spill on the pallet wood and be absorbed.

These costlier pallets usually require a deposit and are returned to the sender or resold as used. Many "four way" pallets are color-coded according to the loads they can bear, and other attributes.

Pallets constructed of extruded pallet components are a more obvious fit for custom sizing. One example of an extruded plastic pallet manufacturer is Custom Built Plastic Pallets. While costly, durable plastic pallets should last a long time and deliver a low cost per trip, as long as they're properly managed to avoid loss or theft.

This usually works best if you’re stacking boxes of the same size. If unable to use the overlapping pattern, make sure you rotate each new layer of boxes you add. Whatever you do, avoid stacking boxes in columns with all the boxes facing in the same direction as this makes it easier for boxes to tip over or slide during transit. When deciding how to arrange your boxes on a pallet, remember that heavy items should be placed on the bottom layer.

This provides the skid mobility in contrast to that of a pallet, which makes the skid a good option to move materials from one place to another. The skid is also good for non mobile use and is often used as the foundation of heavy machinery. At the end of the carriage, the Customer must make sure that the Customer returns to their owner any containers, pallets or packaging which is delivered to the Carrier with the Goods. Further, if for any reason (e.g. a change in the physical characteristics of the consignment) your service requirements vary, we reserve the right to negotiate the rates or to withdraw from the agreement. Jayde Transport may charge freight by weight, measurement or value and may at any time re-weigh, re-value or re-measure and charge proportional additional freight accordingly.

The core difference between LTL and Partial TL is the way it is transported rather than its size or weight. Stackable pallets have bottom support so as to be able to be placed on top of another loaded pallet and provide stability during storage and transport.

Paper pallets are prized for their cleanliness, light weight, ease of recyclability, and relatively low price point. They're usually priced only slightly higher than a similarly sized expendable wood pallet. Due to the time and expense of tooling molds for plastic pallets, custom sizing may be an expensive alternative.

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All prices presented in these documents and future quotes regarding services provided by Jayde Transport exclude GST. Metal pallets include steel models as well as more expensive aluminum and stainless steel for specialized applications such as clean rooms or food production environments. Rolled thin steel and mesh pallets typically sell at a lower price point, competitive with reusable plastic pallets.

Extensively used in storage and warehousing, they are popular pallets for racking, with the right shape and size to be removed from transport and directly onto warehouse racking for storage. Wooden pallets typically consist of three or four stringers that support several deckboards, on top of which goods are placed. In a pallet measurement, the first number is the stringer length and the second is the deckboard length. While most pallets are wooden, pallets can also be made of plastic, metal, paper, and recycled materials. Due to this change in design, the weight of the skid does not rest on the bottom deck but rests on its vertical slats or legs instead.

They graciously gave their approval, as long as I left the painted ones alone. So, every time I see some I like, including long ones, I help myself and now have a stack of nice ones on my back basement deck under the regular decking.

Weight limits depend on the weight of the vehicle and local laws, but typically are around 34,000 – 45,000 lbs. The most typical truckload shipments are transported via dry van, flatbed, and refrigerated trailers. Partial truckload shipments are shipments that don’t completely fill the truck, but tend to remain on a single truck similar to full truckload shipments. As a result, they are subjected to less handling than LTL shipments. Average partial truckload shipments fall between LTL and FTL sizes and weight.

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Experiment Reaffirms Quantum Weirdness

Physicists are closing the door on an intriguing loophole around the quantum phenomenon Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”

There might be no getting around what Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.” With an experiment described today in Physical Review Letters — a feat that involved harnessing starlight to control measurements of particles shot between buildings in Vienna — some of the world’s leading cosmologists and quantum physicists are closing the door on an intriguing alternative to “quantum entanglement.”

“Technically, this experiment is truly impressive,” said Nicolas Gisin, a quantum physicist at the University of Geneva who has studied this loophole around entanglement.

According to standard quantum theory, particles have no definite states, only relative probabilities of being one thing or another — at least, until they are measured, when they seem to suddenly roll the dice and jump into formation. Stranger still, when two particles interact, they can become “entangled,” shedding their individual probabilities and becoming components of a more complicated probability function that describes both particles together. This function might specify that two entangled photons are polarized in perpendicular directions, with some probability that photon A is vertically polarized and photon B is horizontally polarized, and some chance of the opposite. The two photons can travel light-years apart, but they remain linked: Measure photon A to be vertically polarized, and photon B instantaneously becomes horizontally polarized, even though B’s state was unspecified a moment earlier and no signal has had time to travel between them. This is the “spooky action” that Einstein was famously skeptical about in his arguments against the completeness of quantum mechanics in the 1930s and ’40s.

In 1964, the Northern Irish physicist John Bell found a way to put this paradoxical notion to the test. He showed that if particles have definite states even when no one is looking (a concept known as “realism”) and if indeed no signal travels faster than light (“locality”), then there is an upper limit to the amount of correlation that can be observed between the measured states of two particles. But experiments have shown time and again that entangled particles are more correlated than Bell’s upper limit, favoring the radical quantum worldview over local realism.

Only there’s a hitch: In addition to locality and realism, Bell made another, subtle assumption to derive his formula — one that went largely ignored for decades. “The three assumptions that go into Bell’s theorem that are relevant are locality, realism and freedom,” said Andrew Friedman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a co-author of the new paper. “Recently it’s been discovered that you can keep locality and realism by giving up just a little bit of freedom.” This is known as the “freedom-of-choice” loophole.

In a Bell test, entangled photons A and B are separated and sent to far-apart optical modulators — devices that either block photons or let them through to detectors, depending on whether the modulators are aligned with or against the photons’ polarization directions. Bell’s inequality puts an upper limit on how often, in a local-realistic universe, photons A and B will both pass through their modulators and be detected. (Researchers find that entangled photons are correlated more often than this, violating the limit.) Crucially, Bell’s formula assumes that the two modulators’ settings are independent of the states of the particles being tested. In experiments, researchers typically use random-number generators to set the devices’ angles of orientation. However, if the modulators are not actually independent — if nature somehow restricts the possible settings that can be chosen, correlating these settings with the states of the particles in the moments before an experiment occurs — this reduced freedom could explain the outcomes that are normally attributed to quantum entanglement.

The universe might be like a restaurant with 10 menu items, Friedman said. “You think you can order any of the 10, but then they tell you, ‘We’re out of chicken,’ and it turns out only five of the things are really on the menu. You still have the freedom to choose from the remaining five, but you were overcounting your degrees of freedom.” Similarly, he said, “there might be unknowns, constraints, boundary conditions, conservation laws that could end up limiting your choices in a very subtle way” when setting up an experiment, leading to seeming violations of local realism.

This possible loophole gained traction in 2010, when Michael Hall, now of Griffith University in Australia, developed a quantitative way of reducing freedom of choice. In Bell tests, measuring devices have two possible settings (corresponding to one bit of information: either 1 or 0), and so it takes two bits of information to specify their settings when they are truly independent. But Hall showed that if the settings are not quite independent — if only one bit specifies them once in every 22 runs — this halves the number of possible measurement settings available in those 22 runs. This reduced freedom of choice correlates measurement outcomes enough to exceed Bell’s limit, creating the illusion of quantum entanglement.

The idea that nature might restrict freedom while maintaining local realism has become more attractive in light of emerging connections between information and the geometry of space-time. Research on black holes, for instance, suggests that the stronger the gravity in a volume of space-time, the fewer bits can be stored in that region. Could gravity be reducing the number of possible measurement settings in Bell tests, secretly striking items from the universe’s menu?

Friedman, Alan Guth and colleagues at MIT were entertaining such speculations a few years ago when Anton Zeilinger, a famous Bell test experimenter at the University of Vienna, came for a visit. Zeilinger also had his sights on the freedom-of-choice loophole. Together, they and their collaborators developed an idea for how to distinguish between a universe that lacks local realism and one that curbs freedom.

In the first of a planned series of “cosmic Bell test” experiments, the team sent pairs of photons from the roof of Zeilinger’s lab in Vienna through the open windows of two other buildings and into optical modulators, tallying coincident detections as usual. But this time, they attempted to lower the chance that the modulator settings might somehow become correlated with the states of the photons in the moments before each measurement. They pointed a telescope out of each window, trained each telescope on a bright and conveniently located (but otherwise random) star, and, before each measurement, used the color of an incoming photon from each star to set the angle of the associated modulator. The colors of these photons were decided hundreds of years ago, when they left their stars, increasing the chance that they (and therefore the measurement settings) were independent of the states of the photons being measured.

And yet, the scientists found that the measurement outcomes still violated Bell’s upper limit, boosting their confidence that the polarized photons in the experiment exhibit spooky action at a distance after all.

Nature could still exploit the freedom-of-choice loophole, but the universe would have had to delete items from the menu of possible measurement settings at least 600 years before the measurements occurred (when the closer of the two stars sent its light toward Earth). “Now one needs the correlations to have been established even before Shakespeare wrote, ‘Until I know this sure uncertainty, I’ll entertain the offered fallacy,’” Hall said.

Next, the team plans to use light from increasingly distant quasars to control their measurement settings, probing further back in time and giving the universe an even smaller window to cook up correlations between future device settings and restrict freedoms. It’s also possible (though extremely unlikely) that the team will find a transition point where measurement settings become uncorrelated and violations of Bell’s limit disappear — which would prove that Einstein was right to doubt spooky action.

“For us it seems like kind of a win-win,” Friedman said. “Either we close the loophole more and more, and we’re more confident in quantum theory, or we see something that could point toward new physics.”

There’s a final possibility that many physicists abhor. It could be that the universe restricted freedom of choice from the very beginning — that every measurement was predetermined by correlations established at the Big Bang. “Superdeterminism,” as this is called, is “unknowable,” said Jan-Åke Larsson, a physicist at Linköping University in Sweden; the cosmic Bell test crew will never be able to rule out correlations that existed before there were stars, quasars or any other light in the sky. That means the freedom-of-choice loophole can never be completely shut.

But given the choice between quantum entanglement and superdeterminism, most scientists favor entanglement — and with it, freedom. “If the correlations are indeed set [at the Big Bang], everything is preordained,” Larsson said. “I find it a boring worldview. I cannot believe this would be true.”

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Baselworld: producing the goods when the going gets tough

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Baselworld: producing the goods when the going gets tough

Roll up, roll up, the new watch releases are in town! EMILY MOBBS visits Baselworld 2017 to discover what’s in store for the local market in the season ahead.

It’s that time of year again when the world’s most famous watch and jewellery show concludes and the local industry eagerly awaits the arrival of hot new product.

Baselworld 2017 took place from March 23 to March 30 and was set against a backdrop of troubling market conditions (see separate story on page 32) but it is in tough periods where the strong is separated from the weak; where those wishing to succeed work harder to reinvent and innovate.

This was a sentiment expressed by the show’s organisers, who pushed the ‘quality over quantity’ mantra during media conferences and press releases throughout the week.

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Addressing the media one day before the event officially opened, Baselworld Exhibitors’ Committee president Eric Bertrand said he believed that the challenging times would provide “opportunity for those who have done their job properly in recent years and who have a solid foundation on the market”.

Further, Bertrand stated on the last day of the watch and jewellery show that the quality of product releases on display was evidence that the sector was resilient amidst difficult conditions.

Baselworld remains important for the Australian and New Zealand industries because it provides suppliers with their first glimpse at the latest watch models for the brands that they distribute while also presenting a chance to seek out new distribution deals.

Seiko Australia group marketing manager Stuart Smith is one member of the 2017 Baselworld Australian contingent who expresses confidence in his brand’s offering. Speaking with Jeweller at the show, Smith said that Seiko had achieved four years of positive results in a difficult market and the local team expected a similar outcome for the year ahead.

“It [the market] has got its challenges – not everybody reports it as being good and, probably towards the back end of last year, it started to get a little bit tougher – but we’re all quite confident,” Smith stated, adding, “If you’ve got good product releases then you’ll probably have a good year. We’ve had a lot of interest on the new releases at Baselworld already.”

Back on home soil, Smith confirms there are various models that should excite local retailers and consumers. For starters, the Japanese brand has re-imagined the past with new releases in the Prospex collection.

“Both models are contemporary re-interpretations of Seiko’s original 1965 diver’s watch,” Smith says of the two timepieces coming to the local market in November.

The watches echo the original design concept but, as Smith explains, now have the latest specifications required by divers – automatic calibre with 21,600 vibrations per hour; wider hands with longer-lasting Lumibrite for increased legibility; 200-metres of water resistance; sapphire, crystal glass with an anti-reflective coating; larger case size of 42.6 mm.

The brand also invokes glamour with its Presage Collection, inspired by a cocktail bar and released in July.

“This series of mechanical watches has only previously been available on the Japanese domestic market,” Smith says. “Since its introduction in 2010, the series has developed a cult following on the world’s blogs, forums and websites.

The ‘cocktail’ release will see six models introduced in two different calibres – automatic calendar and automatic with power reserve indicator.”

Finally, Smith says Seiko has expanded its Astron GPS Solar series with the Astron Big-Date calibre. The model has stainless steel and titanium case and bracelet options with key features including GPS-controlled time and time-zone adjustment, dual time with AM/PM indication and perpetual calendar to the year 2100.

The series also features a watch designed in honour of brand ambassador Novak Djokovic’s achievement of securing a Career Grand Slam after winning the French Open in 2016. Both Astron models are expected to be available by early September.

Given its targeted distribution, the Grand Seiko range doesn’t impact heavily upon the Australian and New Zealand markets; however, it should still be noted that it is now to be considered a stand-alone brand, according to an announcement made at Baselworld.

Technology meets adrenaline

Casio Timepieces has a focus on technology too, the brand highlighting its new G-Shock Gravity Master as a key release in 2017.

Available in June and falling under G-Shock’s Master of G range, the watch was developed in response to the specific needs of pilots and is part of G-Shock’s new ‘Connected’ offering, which introduces Bluetooth connectivity with a smart device for simple configuration and data logging.

DANISH DESIGN & VOSTOK EUROPE

Casio has also announced its third release of the limited edition Mr-G Hammer Tone, which Arujunan Gunasingam, national commercial sales and marketing manager of Casio local distributor Shriro, describes as “elegance meets toughness”.

“Limited to 500 units worldwide, each piece is handcrafted by master metalwork craftsman Bihou Asano,” Gunasingam says of the model that will launch locally in September.

Embracing the motorsport spirit is the latest Edifice iteration that has a smartphone link chronograph and was created with input from professional racing-car team members.

“The addition of a smartphone linkage capability has enabled installation of a function for managing individual laps during races,” Gunasingam concludes.

While on high-adrenaline pursuits, Vostok Europe’s latest releases continue the brand’s reputation of unique watches designed for extreme conditions – timepieces are even presented in a waterproof dry box that can be used during activities conducted by people who enjoy living life on the edge.

Ken Abbott, managing director of Vostok Europe’s local distributor Timesupply, explains that one of the brand’s unique selling propositions is the use of tritium illumination tubes – a laser-sealed, gas-filled tube with radio-luminescent material that glows without needing to be charged by an external light source.

“Vostok Europe buyers are a very mixed demographic, from business men and collectors who want a robust unique watch not designed by a ‘committee’ through to tradies, emergency/police and security services who rely on tritium illumination,” Abbott explains.

Along with a Japanese multi-function movement, 300-metres of water resistance and an automatic helium release valve, the latest Lunokhod-2 model’s tritium tubes are mounted vertically around the dial and horizontally on the hour and minute hand, providing the most advanced illumination without the need to recharge with light.

“The Energia [new release] also has the tritium lighting tubes mounted horizontally on the hands and dial but there is another clever feature to further enhance the brightness of the tritium gas – the hands and dial batons are mirror finished,” Abbott adds.

Seeking tranquillity

Those in search of something a little more relaxed can look to the classic, clean aesthetic of Danish Design, another brand distributed by Timesupply.

“Danish Design is about style, simplicity and quality,” Abbott says, highlighting two new releases. One showcases satin gold ion-plated stainless steel and chocolate-coloured leather strap and the other showcases satin rose gold ion-plated stainless steel with a grey dial and taupe-coloured leather strap.

Danish Design marketing director Ronan Weisz also told Jeweller at Baselworld that a new marketing campaign was in the works and expected to be released later this year.

Also renowned for a minimalist style is Bering, a brand synonymous with Scandinavian design. Nils Rasmussen, managing director of local distributor BYMR, points to the brand’s solar watch for men as a key release from the show.

“Combining solar technology with trademark minimalist Danish design, and with a strong belief in environmental protection, Bering has released a striking, black solar watch with yellow highlights,” Rasmussen says of the timepiece that launches this month.

Other highlights include a highly-polished steel and grey women’s watch with Swarovski elements as well as a unisex timepiece, which Rasmussen explains, adopts the latest colour trend of black combined with rose gold. Both are out in June.

Speaking of trends, Daniel Wellington has secured a strong footing within the fashion watch category and announced at this year’s Baselworld the appointment of US model and social media darling Kendall Jenner as brand ambassador.

“Central to this relationship was the launch of the new Classic Petite collection, as worn by Kendall Jenner,” explains John Rose, general manager of Daniel Wellington’s local distributor West End Collection.

“The Petite collection [available now] is a new design for Daniel Wellington featuring a 32 mm case and a rose gold or silver mesh strap,” Rose continues. “Following on from the success of the Black collection that was launched in November 2016, the new Classic Petite collection also comes with either a black or white dial.”

Australia represents

Another significant Baselworld announcement for Rose was the presence of Christian Paul Sydney and the launch of the Break Away system.

The brand, distributed locally by West End Collection, was founded in 2015 and was a first-time exhibitor at this year’s show.

Christian Paul CEO and founder Tim Caruana says Baselworld met all expectations and that the Break Away release received a high level of international interest.

Break Away is an interchangeable watch strap concept with a difference. The three-part system allows consumers to assemble a timepiece from three separate components – the face, the band and the buckle. Each of the 86 available components is treated as an individual stock keeping unit (SKU), which allows consumers to mix-and-match the parts to create their own combinations – there are said to about 1,500 style options.

“The feedback at Baselworld couldn’t be any better,” Caruana says. “The test was whether the concept could be easily communicated and understood and, by all accounts, distributors are not only grasping the idea but saying ‘This is what we need.’”

Rose adds that the new system is presented on a luxurious POS display and will be available in Australia by the end of June.

Still on trend-driven designs, the conversation turns to Henry London, which is distributed locally by Ice Australasia.

“For Henry London, the Iconic and the Automatic range are key new releases and are based on feedback from retailers and consumers,” Ice Australasia CEO Larry Porter explains.

“The Iconic keeps the inspiration of the original Henry design – stainless steel case and domed glass; however, it is brought up to date and on trend with the addition of a mineral glass lens, minimalist on-trend dial and colour palettes,” Porter says, adding that an important element includes interchangeable bands in leather and mesh.

According to Porter, the Automatic men’s range is a beautiful evolution of the original Henry watch and now features an automatic movement with a mineral glass lens.

“Given the feedback we have received from our male consumers, we feel this will hit a sweet spot,” he says.

Ice-Watch, also distributed by Ice Australasia, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Porter states that the brand’s major release is the Ice-Watch Ola junior range, based on the brand’s original slimline design with the addition of numbered dials.

“We see this as the key release from Basel, as it showcases the DNA of the brand – silicone and colour – at a highly-accessible price point,” he says.

Watches for children, adrenaline seekers, fashionistas, tech-heads – there’s a new offering for every consumer type imaginable.

To reiterate Smith’s comment, quality of product releases goes a long way to ensuring success in this market and it appears the 2017 Baselworld show delivered on that with plenty of options for retailers.

CHANGES TO 2018 SHOW Baselworld organisers have announced that the 2018 show has been shortened.

A statement by Baselworld organiser MCH Swiss Exhibition confirms that next year’s edition will be held across six days instead of the traditional eight.

Buyer attendance at the 2017 event decreased 4 per cent year-on-year to 106,000, while exhibitor numbers reduced 13 per cent to 1,300.

Commenting on the decision to shorten the show, Baselworld managing director Sylvie Ritter says the industry is undergoing a “challenging phase” and the event needs to adapt.

“Listening to our exhibitors, we have decided to reduce the duration of the [2018] show and adjust prices accordingly,” she explains.

The 2018 event will take place from March 22 to March 27.

  Emily Mobbs attended Baselworld as an accredited media representative. Baselworld 2018 is scheduled to take place from March 22 to March 27.

Check out Jeweller‘s report from Baselworld 2017 here »

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