Program aims to educate young consumers about mined stones’ positive qualities.
The group will soon launch a program to refute false claims made by the lab-grown sector.
Lab tech: Grown stones’ chemical properties are spurring progress in computing, sustainable energy, and other emerging fields.
Rapaport’s Avi Krawitz outlines six factors that will affect the trade this year.
36% of center stones in 2022 were synthetic diamonds, doubling in popularity from 2020, according to The Knot.
Increases for select products drove 9% growth in fourth quarter.
Government abolishes import duty on diamond seeds, pledges research grant.
Some jewelers are keeping their synthetics sales low-key to avoid pushback from the trade.
Siobhán Duffy will take the helm at the industrial-diamond business on February 1.
It may take a few months before sentiment improves and buoyancy returns to the trade.
Current board member succeeds Sue Rechner.