Diamond Services, a developer and provider of screening services and technology for the diamond and jewellery industries, will be launching its lab-grown and colour-treated diamond screening service next week in Israel. It said that it will subsequently announce plans for expansion in other major diamond centres. The service provider had inaugurated this service last November in Shanghai.

The company uses its proprietary Diamatest and mini Raman Spectrometer. It says that used together they provide the only system currently available that is able to test both mounted and un-mounted stones regardless the size and shape, and can accurately detect whether they are lab-grown synthetics, HPHT colour-treated diamonds or diamond simulants, providing a conclusive finding.

Joseph Kuzi, Diamond Services' CEO and President said, "With increasing reports of lab-grown diamonds being sold without proper disclosure, or, even worse, with grading reports that mask their true identity, it is becoming increasingly imperative that diamond traders verify whether their merchandise is natural or not, especially with the 'memo' type of business."

He said that the company’s screening service is designed to do just that and offers conclusive results. According to Kuzi, the system can accurately identify synthetics, treated goods and simulants on the spot, with no stones needing to be referred for further testing.