Diamond Services to launch affordable technology to detect synthetic diamonds

Hong Kong-based Diamond Services Ltd., is launching an accessible and affordable technology that will significantly lower the threshold for diamond companies to screen for synthetic diamonds – both loose and mounted. Diamond Services Ltd. delves in marketing cutting-edge technological solutions to the diamond, gem and jewellery industry and trade.

Yossi Kuzi, owner of Diamond Services, said that the new screening technology is based on laser optics. He further added that the company has developed a new device with Faculty of Chemistry, a leading academic institution that screens colourless diamonds, with a 100 percent success rate. “We have run tests on batches of up to a 1,000 stones - HPHT and CVD -- with complete success," Kuzi stated.

Kuzi has been engaged in developing affordable screening methods and tools, and in 2012, Diamond Services launched the DiamaPen, that generates accurate results in the screening and separation of fancy colour synthetic diamonds. Kuzi noted that the various instruments available in the market today, for separating natural diamonds from their synthetics work on the assumption that all synthetic diamonds belong to the Type IIa category, and on these tools' ability to measure the fluorescence of the diamonds. "However, recently the industry was confronted with synthetic diamonds that belong to the Type IaAB category, which cannot be detected by means of fluorescence measurements. This, for all practical purposes, means that the instruments that currently serve gem labs and the industry at large have become, if not obsolete, at least less reliable," he stated.

Demonstrating with laboratory prototype of the new device, Kuzi noted that, “By introducing low-entrance technology, we hope to level the playing field for all operators in the market and make it accessible industry wide." He also stated that screening should be rather a simple process taking not more ‘time required to, for instance, weigh a stone.’ The new screening system will be launched at the coming Hong Kong March show (Asia World Expo, Hall 9, booth M07) and will be available thereafter via service stations worldwide. The first service stations will start operating from March 2014 both in Hong Kong and in Israel.