Whether it’s grading, detection or promoting young designers, the International Gemological Institute has a wealth of services that will be in the spotlight on our Instagram account.
Avi Levy, president of the International Gemological Institute (IGI) North America, will join us on Instagram Live on June 24 to share five of the company’s key activities for the trade. Levy will also take the audience on an exclusive tour of IGI’s New York lab.
For close to 50 years, IGI has provided the fine-jewelry community and consumers with a broad range of services, including natural and lab-grown diamond reports, colored-stone grading and origin reports, and jewelry-identification and appraisal reports. With laboratories and education facilities in major diamond and jewelry centers around the world, IGI — now part of the Blackstone portfolio — is ideally placed to understand the needs of the market.
One of the main issues facing the industry today is the rise of lab-grown diamonds in the marketplace. IGI screens millions of natural and lab-grown diamonds to ensure that traders and consumers receive the products they expect. Authentic IGI Laboratory Reports are designed to empower trust and confidence among buyers and sellers alike.
IGI also organizes design competitions to discover the jewelry talents of the future. And in the upcoming Live session, our audience will get to learn about other useful services the laboratory offers.
“Five Things You Didn’t Know About IGI” will take place on Monday, June 24, at 11 a.m. EDT. Join us on the @rapaportjewelrypro and @igi_gemgrams Instagram accounts to watch the Live interview.
This episode of the JewelryPro Instagram Live series is sponsored by IGI. With 30 laboratories and 19 schools in 10 countries, IGI has a workforce of over 1,000 experts dedicated to industry service and consumer protection.
