Whereas 2019 and 2020 have shown themselves to a be a game changer for the entire world, the process may have been even more dramatic for the diamond industry, which after a gradual restructuring process finally saw the development of a real demand-driven business, this new environment, the perennially profit-squeezed midstream is more able to act purely in its own “economic, financial, and commercial self-interest, less burdened by producer pressures to ‘relieve” them of their stocks,” write Pranay Narvekar and Chaim-Even-Zohar in the 2020 edition of their annual diamond pipeline report, published by IDEX.