Diamond Services Ltd. was established in Hong
Kong in 2012 by Joseph Kuzi, with the goal of
developing technological
systems that would assist
in the screening and
identification of synthetic
diamonds, as well as
diamonds that had been
colour-treated using
High Pressure, High
Temperature (HPHT)
technology.
One year after its founding, in 2013, the company released its first product. Called the DiamaPen®, it was a hand-held laser device that is able to detect fancy colour synthetic diamonds. In 2014 Diamond Services introduced DiamaTest®, an innovative system that screens both loose and colourless diamonds for synthetics. That same year, the new system was awarded the JNA Award by UBM Asia in Hong Kong, for outstanding contribution and achievement in the jewellery and gemstone industry. In 2015, Diamond Services released the mini Raman
Spectrometer, following a successful trial in Surat,
India. Able to accurately detect HPHT and CVD
lab-grown synthetic diamonds and HPHT colourtreated
diamonds, as well as diamond simulants,
it was designed to provide individual diamond
and jewellery companies with a technological
capability that, thus far, had typically been the
exclusive domain of well-equipped gem labs. In
addition to supplying its own technology,
Diamond Services began offering synthetic
screening services in 2015, through its
headquarters in Hong Kong (19F Shing Lee
Comm. Bldg., 8 Wing Kut St., Central, Hong
Kong); and in the United States (1414 W. 15 St.,
New York City).
In 2017, with evidence mounting about a surge in
the volume of uncut synthetic diamonds entering
the marketplace, Diamond Services announced
that it would expanding its synthetic screening
service to include rough diamonds. This would be
delivered though its facilities in Hong Kong and
New York. Diamond Services' founder, Mr. Kuzi,
joined the diamond industry in 1994 as Managing
Director of UBEX, a diamond-trading and
manufacturing company. He had previously
served as an officer in the Israeli Air Force for 13
years, during which he completed a degree in
computer engineering at Tel Aviv University, and
the worked as Marketing Director at El-Op, a top
10 Israeli high-tech military systems manufacturer
that is now part of the Elbit Group of Companies.
Specialising in the supply of newly available goods
from Russia, in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, UBEX made an auspicious
debut. From total sales of $5 million in 1994, the
firm saw its annual revenues grow to $180 million
within four years, netting the company and Mr.
Kuzi the prestigious "Outstanding Diamond
Exporter Award," from the Israeli Ministry of
Industry and Trade in 1998.
In 2003 Mr. Kuzi took a hiatus from the diamond
and jewellery sector, completing Harvard Business
School's Advanced Management Program. He
then worked five years as an independent
business and management consultant, based in
London. He returned to the diamond business in
2008, becoming the licensee for European
Gemological Laboratories in the Far East,
establishing its first-ever facility in that region,
when he set up the EGL gem lab in Hong Kong.
In 2012, with the growing incidence of gemquality
synthetic diamonds in the marketplace,
Mr. Kuzi established Diamond Systems.
Mr. Kuzi Is today considered as one of the
diamond industry's leading experts on the subject
of lab-grown diamonds, and he is a frequent
presenter on the subject at events around the
world, dedicated of raising the level of
knowledge in the jewellery and gemstone sectors
about synthetics and their detection. Mr. Kuzi
also played a key role in the establishment of the
Panama Diamond Exchange, the first diamond
bourse in Latin America recognized by the World
Federation of Diamond Bourses, serving a twoyear
stint as its Executive Vice President, starting in
2015.