Sarine Technologies said the Bonas Group is adopting the Sarine Diamond Journey traceability programme and will offer stones with a registered geographical origin.
Over the past ten years, Bonas Group has become the largest independent global diamond and gemstone tender and auction house, marketing and selling twelve direct-from-mine productions representing Blue Rock Diamonds, Braúna, IMDH, KAO, Lucapa Diamond Company, Lucara Diamond, Mountain Province Diamonds and Stornoway Diamonds.
Bonas brings to market direct diamond output from Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa, where provenance registration can be guaranteed at source. Thus, the natural diamond’s origin can be confidently assured for value-chain (midstream and downstream) clients and consumers.
Philip Hoymans, Managing Director of Bonas-Couzyn (Antwerp) NV of the Bonas Group, said: “Diamond traceability is rapidly becoming a must-have in our industry. We are adopting Sarine’s solution, as it perfectly meets our needs — it provides a steadfast data-base solution and is scalable to our volumes of stones, as it only requires us to add a quick scan. Just as important, it integrates seamlessly with our customers’ operations, since they already employ Sarine systems in their cutting and polishing processes, which can now automatically continue the traceability process.”
David Block, CEO of Sarine Technologies, added: “Bonas’ joining the growing Sarine traceability community is of major significance to the entire diamond value chain, allowing retailers to easily source fully-traceable diamonds from many origins. I am looking forward to additional cooperation with Bonas, leveraging the synergy between Bonas’ leading position in rough diamond sales and Sarine’s industry-leading technological solutions to provide big-data solutions to the industry’s overall benefit.”