RAPAPORT... A new project to combat undisclosed synthetics has launched in India, offering retailers low-cost screening and inscription using a model based on gold hallmarking.
Naturalmark will place tamper-proof seals on parcels of loose diamonds, as well as laser-inscribing finished jewelry, enabling transparency at a consumer level, Surat-based Gourav Sethi, its founder, told
Rapaport News last week.
The program, which launched in October, has received support and funding from regional jewelry associations in India, as well as from a handful of diamond and jewelry manufacturers, said Sethi, who has been a board member at the Surat Diamond Association for 10 years.