New Age Diamonds
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The New Age Diamonds Company is a Russian manufacturer of synthetic diamonds. Using the high pressure, high temperature (HPHT) process, the laboratory produces gem-quality synthetic diamonds.
New Age Diamonds uses a unique marketing approach in Japan where “Heart-in Baby Diamonds” are cultivated from newborn baby hair. This is just one of many commemorative New Age Diamonds that are custom made from the hair of people or fur of pets, either living or dead.
The company does not market its synthetic diamonds as an alternative to natural, mined diamonds, but as a commemorative item in the form of a cultivated diamond. Unlike other “mass produced” man-made or synthetic diamonds which are usually marketed as being cheaper than natural diamonds, New Age Diamonds command a higher price that natural diamonds.
New Age Diamonds make diamonds in a variety of colors with yellows being the least expensive and Deep Red the most expensive.
Learn more about New Age Diamonds at the company’s website: www.newagediamonds.com
LifeGem
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A LifeGem synthetic diamond may not be appropriate to use for an engagement ring, but LifeGem has a truly unique approach to making man-made diamonds. LifeGem will make custom diamonds from carbon samples of deceased family members. Marketed as a “diamond tribute for you and your family,” the company gets the carbon sample from cremated ashes or the hair from a deceased and use the carbon sample as the seed to create a synthetic diamond.
LifeGem was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. They also have offices in Europe, United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and Canada. LifeGem collaborates with funeral homes and cremation service businesses in those countries to offer their unique synthetic diamonds.
LifeGem uses High Pressure-High Temperature (HPHT) to make their diamonds. Most man-made or synthetic diamonds are usually marketed as being less expensive than natural, mined diamonds, but that is not the case with LifeGem, which uses the emotional and sentimental value of its diamonds to command prices much higher than natural diamonds.
Learn more about Lifegem diamonds at the company’s website: http://www.lifegem.com/
Tairus
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Tairus
Tairus is a Joint Venture between the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch) and Tairus (Thailand) Co. LTD of Bangkok. Tairus makes a variety of synthetic gemstones using the high pressure, high temperature process, including emerald, ruby, sapphire, and Beryl. Synthetic diamond production is a recent development for the company.
The Tairus synthetic diamonds are primarily Fancy Yellow colors including Vivid Yellow, Orange, and Cognac. White and blue colored diamonds are much more difficult to produce and the company has not yet perfected the production process.
Learn more about Tairus cultured diamonds at the company’s website: www.tairus.com
Other Synthetic Diamonds: Apollo Diamond, Chatham, Adia Diamonds, Gemesis, New Age Diamonds, LifeGem
Gemisis
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Gemisis
Gemesis, based in Sarasota, Florida, was started in 1996 by retired U.S. Brigadier General Carter Clarke after he purchased diamond glowing machines from the Russians. The Russians had used the machines to make diamonds for its space program. Gemesis diamonds are produced using two dozen or so high-pressure, high-temperature crystal growing chambers to create beautiful and almost perfect fancy-colored diamonds, range in color from red and pink, to blue and green and even bright yellow and orange.
At the present time, Gemesis does not offer clear, white color diamonds that are considered by many for use in traditional diamond settings.
Learn more about Gemesis cultured diamonds at the company’s website: www.gemesis.com
Other Synthetic Diamonds: Apollo Diamond, Tairus, Chatham, Adia Diamonds, New Age Diamonds, LifeGem
Apollo Diamond
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Apollo Diamond, Inc., founded in 2000, has its headquarters in Framingham, and diamond making facility in Boston, MA. Apollo Diamond uses a modified version of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to grow their nearly flawless, colorless, single crystal diamonds, which the company first offered to consumers in 2003. Apollo Diamond will soon be selling blue, pink and black diamonds as well. Apollo also produces diamond wafers and crystals for the optoelectronics and nanotechnology industries, in addition to synthetic diamonds to the consumer diamond market.
The synthetic diamonds produced by Apollo match or exceed the purity and beauty of the finest naturally mined diamond. Apollo synthetic diamonds are so much like mined diamonds that even machines developed by the diamond industry to distinguish synthetic from natural diamonds can have trouble telling them apart.
Learn more about Apollo Diamond, Inc. at the company’s website: www.apollodiamond.com
Other Synthetic Diamonds: Tairus, Chatham, Adia Diamonds, Gemesis, New Age Diamonds, LifeGem