De Beers DVI at approval
Diamond
verification instruments
Pass
rigorous independent tests
DVI
received outstanding results
De
Beers Group Industry Services announced that all four of their diamond
verification instruments (DVI) submitted for testing as part of Project Assure
has received outstanding results. Project Assure is a joint collaboration
between the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) and Signet Jewelers, with input
provided by other participants in the diamond industry and gemmological laboratories,
including De Beers Group.
The
project known as the Assure programme has published the results from the
independent performance tests of the DVI in the Assure Directory on DPA web.
Through the Assure Directory trade participants can access objective and third
party verified information on the relative performance of Diamond Verification Instruments
and guidance on how to ensure that their business is protected from undisclosed
laboratory grown diamonds.
De
Beers Group Industry Services submitted four instruments for testing:
DiamondSure, AMS2, SYNTHdetect and DiamondView, receiving excellent results
overall, and with the SYNTHdetect, AMS2 and DiamondView being the only tested
instruments to achieve a diamond accuracy rating above 99%. Three of the
verification instruments gave a 0% false positive rate meaning no synthetic
diamonds were mis-identified as natural diamonds, with the AMS2 recoding near
perfect results.
All
of the instruments either identified or referred 100% of synthetic diamonds for
further testing. The DiamondView achieved 100% accuracy and a zero referral
rate and the AMS2 and SYNTHdetect instruments referred less than 0.75% of
natural diamonds for further testing.
Speaking
about the results, Jonathan Kendall, President-De Beers Group Industry Services
said: “We are thrilled to have received the results of the Assure programmes
independent testing and to have learnt that our diamond verification
instruments performed so well. It is of key importance to the diamond industry
that we are able to provide clear guidance about the capabilities of diamond detection
instruments so that our customers can have confidence in the machinery, and
their ability to detect lab grown diamonds.”
Jean-Marc
Lieberherr, CEO of the Diamond Producers Association, said “Trade participants
have a shared responsibility to disclose the nature of the product they are
selling to protect the end consumer. Through the Assure Program we will support
the diamond trade, from independent jewellery retailers to large diamond
manufacturers, to make informed decisions on how to ensure that undisclosed
laboratory grown diamonds do not enter their natural diamond supply chain. The Assure
test results should be considered along guidelines formulated by the
Responsible Jewellery Council.”
Andrew
Bone, Executive Director at the Responsible Jewellery Council, said “We welcome
this initiative to support the spread of effective diamond verification
practices across the pipeline. We will continue to support the DPA and the Assure
Program in their efforts to enhance consumer confidence in the jewellery
industry.”
The
ASSURE Program partnered with the 11 manufacturers representing the 18 most
widely available Diamond Verification instruments in the market. The
instruments submitted to Assure have been tested in accordance with the methods
and protocols in the Diamond Verification Instruments Standard.
The
standard was developed in collaboration with the independent third-party test
agency UL and a Technical Committee consisting of leading scientists and
academics from major gemmological organisations, including GIA, GII, IIDGR
(Institute of Diamond Grading & Research now known as De Beers Group
Industry Services), NGTC, SSEF, TISNCM and WTOCD.
The
Diamond Verification Instruments have been tested with a deliberately
challenging sample (including natural diamonds, laboratory grown diamonds and
if applicable, diamond simulants), designed to provide an indication of the
relative performance of the instruments.
The
first round of testing took place at UL’s laboratories in Canton,
Massachusetts, USA, and the results will continuously be made available in the Assure
Directory in the coming weeks. Visit the Assure Directory on DPA web, www.diamondproducers.com/Assure to learn more
about the test results and to download guidelines on how to ensure pipeline
integrity. Direct questions on the Assure Directory and Diamond Verification
Instruments can be placed at DPA.
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