EGL Asia, the Hong Kong-headquartered lab has renewed its agreement for close cooperation with NGGC, the state-owned, leading Chinese diamond grading lab. The pact was signed in Ramat Gan, Israel, during a visit of a Chinese delegation of representatives of the Shanghai Institute of Measurement and Testing Technology (SIMT) and NGGC.

This renews the existing arrangement between the two institutions under which customers of the two laboratories who wish to receive a diamond grading certificate from both organisations can do so by paying only for the EGL Asia grading report. EGL Asia and NGGC also cooperate closely in a research project concerning the identification of synthetic diamonds.

Prof Shao Li, SIMT president and head of the delegation, praised the long-time cooperation with EGL Asia in greater China. "EGL Asia has been successful in adapting to and following the Chinese grading standards," he noted. 

"We are very proud to host such a high-brow Chinese delegation and enhance the cooperative framework with our Chinese colleagues of NGGC," said Joseph Kuzi, CEO of EGL Asia.