The Assay Office reduces the price of hallmarking
The Assay Office is pleased to announce that, as of today, a new measure with immediate impact on its customers will be implemented.
From now on, operators will be able to entrust all their pieces and markings to the Assay Office, either by laser or by puncture, as this Office will now match its own values to those practiced by the market when applying hallmarks
The hallmark by puncture or laser will have the cost of EUR 0.10+VAT per piece, when applied on all lots, the current tariff price being kept in other situations.
With this reduction, the Assay Office hopes to encourage all customers to use this service, not only for the convenience and simplification it provides to economic operators, but also by the increase in speed and efficiency allowed when setting the hallmark together with the contrast mark, in a safe and fully legible manner.
This measure is intended to strengthen the goldsmith sector, while at the same time offering an increasingly excellent service to economic operators, contributing to the enhancement of the certification mark.
If you have any questions, please refer to our FAQs that answer these and many other relevant questions by the goldsmith industry and the final consumer.
The Assay Office in Vivacidade
The municipality of Gondomar is closer to the Assay Office. Vivacidade, the city’s news outlet, highlighted in its latest issue an interview with Paula Pedro and Rosa Bessa, who did the honours in presenting the Assay Office, unveiling some of its activities’ particularities and establishing a bridge between the tradition and its focus on the future.
The Assay Office welcomes the invitation to be featured it this article and thanks the opportunity to introduce its activities and plans for the future in a field that is so dear to all Gondomar citizens.
Read the whole article here.
The Assay Office meets its customers
The Assay Office had, once again, the privilege of visiting and meeting, from the inside, what best is done in the Portuguese Jewelry Sector.
These meetings were hosted by three economical operators from Gondomar and Porto: Jose Martins Barbosa, TMB and Bluebird.
In a first meeting, attended also by AORP (Portuguese Association of Jewelers and Watchmakers), the Assay Office met with entrepreneurs Carlos Barbosa, Tiago Barbosa and Alexandre Bastos Gomes, from the industries Jose Martins Barbosa and TMB, from Gondomar.
In a second meeting, the Assay Office discussed the difficulties felt by the Sector and its opportunities for improvement with Diana Loureiro and Susana Andrade, entrepreneurs from Bluebird (Porto).
These meetings began with a tour through Goldpark, giving these industrialists a chance to see, up close, all operations and getting to know the backstage of a more secure and modern Assay Office.
This direct interaction serves a double purpose of fostering a mutual agreement and, on the other hand, promotes a continuous reflection on the revitalization strategies for this Sector.
Ist BIENNIAL CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY IN LISBON, 2021
With a view to interacting with the involved stakeholders and as already achieved with other associations, the Assay Office Direction held a virtual conference with the PIN, Portuguese Association of Contemporary Jewelers, on July 28.
PIN shared with the Assay Office the intention to promote the 1st Biennial of Contemporary Jewelry in Lisbon. The theme will be “Jewels and Protective Objects for the 21st century”.
The Assay Office has committed to support the PIN, in particular in settling the legal aspects that guide exhibitions by foreign galleries. However, this support will extend to other cross-cutting needs arising from the organisation of this event, which is particularly important for the impact it will have on the dissemination of the national sector on a European and Trans-European scale.
