"Yahalomei Espeka Israel", founded in Israel in 1969 by Abraham Sussholz was incorporated in 1982 when his son, Phillippe, joined the business. In 1996, at about the same time as Abraham Sussholz retired, Abraham Fluk joined the company as a full partner.

These two very experienced diamantaires are already developing and preparing the firm for their children (the third generation). Abraham's son, Uri, a graduate of Tel Aviv's University Faculty of Computer Sciences and Administration, manages the company's manufacturing and rough purchasing system.

They work together with an excellent sales and administration staff whom they credit with their company's achievements. They were recently quoted as saying "the award for excellence that we received belongs to our company's employees - the members of the Espeka family - who have contributed and continue to contribute, energetically and devotedly, to the company's development ".

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• Sightholder status helps the firm plan its production and enables it to promise clients an orderly, regular supply of goods.
  
  
• Espeka-Israel is one of Israel's largest manufacturers of rounds (0.01 to 1.50 carats).
  
  
• By manufacturing its smaller goods in China (0.01 - 0.10 carat), Espeka-Israel is able to offer exceptional quality at competitive prices.

• Competitive Prices
  
  
• All "makes" including excellent cut, ideal cut, and fine make
  
  
• Straight/fixed assortments (down to the smallest sizes) instead of mixed parcels
  
  
• Larger Sizes: 0.70 - 3.00 carats (which can be provided with recognized Certificates)

Espeka-Israel is one of the few Israeli companies that manufactures large quantities of very small diamonds for volume users.

Because it is economically impossible to cut small goods in Israel, five years ago, Espeka-Israel made contact with a small factory in Guangzhou, China (located in the Guandong Province). Today, the factory has 1000 employees involved in all of the processes of bringing the rough to the polished stage - marking, bruting, cleaving, cutting, polishing, and sorting.

The cutters and polishers are professional, talented, and highly skilled. The factory polishes stones ranging in sizes from 100 per carat to half caraters, utilizing all forms of polishing techniques - from the manual expertise of the individual artisan to the technology of advanced computerized polishing systems. In addition, working with sub-contractors, Espeka-Israel employs approximately another 100 workers in China.

Quality control is of the utmost importance in keeping with Espeka's high standards for the very best quality and make.

The company has developed so remarkably in the past few years. Equipped with state-of-the-art machinery, the modern Israeli factory in Ramat Gan employs approximately 50 diamond cutters and polishers. Espeka also works with sub-contractors in Israel.

After the diamonds are sorted, the assortments are defined by Espeka's Special Code System that is easily analyzed. The company also cuts and polishes larger sizes (0.70-3.00 carats) which can be offered with the well respected certificates of the G.I.A, A.G.S., and E.G.L gemological laboratories.

The sales, sorting, buying, and administration offices are in the Diamond Exchange's Noam Building:

Most of Espeka's clients order their goods according to these codes which are based on a custom-made computerized system that promises a continuous supply of steady assortments with every order.

Whereas the goods polished in China are sorted there, the codes enable full control over goods manufactured both in Israel and in China.

The program keeps track of each sale and shipment which makes repeat orders of the same goods easier for everyone involved.

Approximated 350 set assortments make up the different codes which include 8 clarities, 10 colors, and all the classic sizes.