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The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) goes digital
The lab has introduced it will likely be phasing out paper stories by 2025. The conversion will start in January 2023 with the digital launch of its hottest report, the GIA Diamond File.
Accessible by a QR code, digital stories will open in a revamped app and can characteristic GIA-provided details about the diamond’s 4Cs.
Moreover, the digital providing will characteristic a brand new inscription matching service, enabled by the GIA Match iD instrument. Engineered to pair with the app, GIA Match iD captures a diamond’s inscription picture and hyperlinks the diamond to its safe GIA report utilizing proprietary synthetic intelligence (AI) know-how.
The conversion will save 18 tonnes (20 tons) of paper and 16.8 tonnes (18.5 tons) of plastic every year, in addition to scale back transportation-related carbon emissions, GIA says.
“Digital stories from GIA construct on our a long time of innovation and transfer our shopper safety mission ahead,” says the lab’s president and CEO, Susan Jacques. “This necessary transformation permits GIA to supply shoppers a very trendy and fascinating expertise whereas serving to our trade progress towards a extra sustainable future.”
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