The jewelry industry encompasses the design, production, and sale of decorative items made from precious metals, gemstones, and other materials. This industry includes a wide range of products such as rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and watches. The jewelry market is driven by fashion trends, cultural traditions, and significant life events, making it a vital sector in the luxury goods market.
Jewelry Testing and Research Services
Contract Laboratory can help you with all your Jewelry testing, analysis, scientific research and development, inspection, certification, engineering, failure investigation, and product development needs including:
Gemological Testing: Assessing the authenticity
quality
and characteristics of gemstones using tools such as microscopes and spectrometers
Metal Purity Testing: Determining the purity of precious metals through methods like X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and fire assay
Durability Testing: Evaluating the strength and longevity of jewelry pieces
especially settings and clasps
Allergy Testing: Ensuring the materials used do not cause allergic reactions
particularly for items in direct contact with skin
Hallmarking: Stamping jewelry with marks to certify the type and purity of the metal
Color and Clarity Grading: Evaluating gemstones based on their color and clarity characteristics to determine value and quality
Weight Measurement: Using precise scales to measure the weight of gemstones and metals
crucial for valuation
Type of Jewelry Products
Contract Laboratory can assist your company, academic institution, government agency or organization in outsourcing contract laboratories to perform testing, analysis, and product development for many Jewelry finished products, processes, systems, in-process materials, raw materials and components such as:
Rings (engagement rings
wedding bands
fashion rings)
Necklaces and Pendants
Bracelets and Bangles
Earrings (studs
hoops
drops)
Watches
Brooches and Pins
Anklets
Cufflinks and Tie Clips
Body Jewelry (belly rings
nose rings)
Custom and Personalized Jewelry
Jewelry Test Methods and Standards
Contract Laboratory can help with testing, analysis, assays, evaluations, examinations, inspections and certifications to different Jewelry test methods, standards, procedures or specifications.
- The Fashion Jewelry & Accessories Trade Association (FJATA) Standards
- Amazon Jewelry Quality Assurance Standards
ASTM 2923 - Standard Specification for Consumer Product Safety for Children's Jewelry
ASTM 2923 - Standard Specification for Consumer Product Safety for Children's Jewelry
ISO 764 - Horology - Magnetic resistant watches
ISO 1413 - Horology - Shock-resistant wrist watches
ISO 764 - Horology - Magnetic resistant watches
ISO 3159 - Timekeeping instruments - Wrist-chronometers with spring balance oscillator
ISO 3160 - Watch-cases and accessories - Gold alloy coverings
ISO 9202 - Jewellery and precious metals - Fineness of precious metal alloys
ISO 10713 - Jewellery - Gold alloy coatings
ISO 11210 - ewellery - Determination of platinum in platinum jewellery alloys - Gravimetric method after precipitation of diammonium hexachloroplatinate
ISO 11410 - Jewellery and precious metals - Determination of gold - Cupellation method (fire assay)
ISO 11427 - Jewellery - Determination of silver in silver jewellery alloys - Volumetric (potentiometric) method using potassium bromide
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