In an endeavor to deliver the finest Diamonds, we have set up a world-class manufacturing unit in Surat (Ichhapore), spread across 150,000 sq. ft., employing over 2,000 skilled and experienced artisans.
The use of advanced technologies like Helium Rough, M-Box, Avalon, Laser machines, and Galaxy 1000 maximizes the yield, proportion, and symmetry of our Diamonds, resulting in finest Rounds and Fancy-shaped solitaires.
A majority of our workforce has been with us for decades, ensuring continuity, competence, and consistent quality across all manufacturing levels.
In addition to a modern and comfortable workspace, our facility provides a work environment that promotes employee wellness. Beyond the main manufacturing area, the factory encompasses a spacious reception area, utility bay (canteen), and a gymnasium for employee use.
At Ankit Gems, our commitment goes beyond crafting exceptional-quality Diamonds, we are equally focused on manufacturing them in the most environment friendly manner.
Our Surat facility is a world-class, energy-efficient, and eco-friendly structure, designed to offer a comfortable and sustainable working environment. By implementing green practices within our factory, we focus on water and energy conservation, waste management, and reducing CO₂ emissions - ensuring sustainability is integrated into every step of our operations.
Our Factory is One of the Best-Certified Green Factory Buildings in India, Proudly Accorded with the Highest Possible Rating — LEED® Platinum by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
While solar panels installed on our roof and parking area currently take care of 40% of our total energy needs, we are steadily moving towards becoming 100% solar-dependent in near future. Our building is also 31% more energy efficient than a building of similar size and type.
Additional green initiatives incorporated within the factory:
We have also prioritized employee wellness by designing for employee's natural comfort conditions, using horizontal orientation and maximizing ventilation. Over 75% of our indoor spaces has access to natural daylight, the lush greenery in and around the premises further reduces ambient heat, creating a serene work environment.
Our modern exterior façade also makes the factory internationally recognizable.
By incorporating such Green infrastructure, industry-leading technology and eco-system based approaches, we can proudly say:
“We Provide the Industry with the Most Exceptional Quality, Environment-friendly Solitaires — ALWAYS!”
We began our operations in Windhoek, Namibia, in 2009 through a joint venture with Crystal Diamond Namibia.
Ankit Gems is among the few companies globally to receive sight allocations for its factory in Namibia. Our rough sourcing is always driven by demand and guided by our advanced ERP system, which offers real-time access from anywhere in the world.
Since we began sourcing our roughs from NDTC, our purchases have increased over fourfold. We have also successfully secured extra ex-plan allocations from NDTC — amounting to up to 53% of our ITO value.
Following successful audits for BPP and Forevermark Integrity, our Namibia unit has commenced profitable production of Triple Excellent Round Diamonds.
Factory Strength:
The unit has grown from an initial team of just eight workers to a workforce of over 100 employees today. Initially, a team of Indian experts spent time in Namibia, helping to train the local workforce. The company, now known as Ankit Gems Namibia (Pty) Ltd, is focused on further enhancing its operations and nurturing the most competent and committed workers, enabling them to take on leadership roles and guide new local recruits.
In addition to learning the basics of diamond manufacturing, the team was trained to use computers for planning and processing stones at each stage of production.
Today, our Namibian manufacturing operations are so robust and advanced that we are already able to cut well-made Fancy-shapes, with precision and consistency.
To ensure the highest standards of craftsmanship, we regularly send experts from our Surat facility to Namibia to train and impart advanced manufacturing know-how to local artisans. Moreover, we also call a handful of these artisans to our Surat facility, to familiarize themselves with the manufacturing process, further refining their Diamond cutting and polishing skills. These trained artisans now lead the local workforce, many of whom have risen to the pinnacle of our Namibian manufacturing facility.
Training of Namibians:
At Ankit Gems, our commitment to crafting Diamonds of unparalleled quality and beauty continues to set new benchmarks in the global diamond industry.
In 2017, we achieved a remarkable milestone in the international Diamond marketing arena - a Diamond mined in Namibia, cut and polished at our Namibia factory was inscribed by the Forevermark Diamond Institute in Surat, India. This 3.48 ct Round Brilliant Diamond became a Forevermark Jubilee Diamond (a DTC trademark) and bears the special inscription ‘2,000,000’.
Additionally, jewelry crafted from this Diamond earned its place in Forevermark’s exclusive Red Carpet Collection, destined to be adorned by celebrities at prestigious events and award ceremonies worldwide, showcasing the brilliance of Namibian Diamonds on a global stage.
Our expert Namibian craftsmen have also polished a 27.41 ct Diamond - one of the largest of its kind to be mined and manufactured in Namibia. This remarkable achievement highlights our skill, precision, and potential in crafting world-class Diamonds.
Beyond crafting extraordinary Diamonds, Ankit Gems Namibia proudly supported the DTC Shining Light Awards Southern Africa Collection, celebrating the theme “Women of Africa - Your Light Shines”
Our Namibia facility is equipped with cutting-edge technology to support high-precision Diamond manufacturing. We were the first Indian company to install the GalaxyTM 1000 machine at our Namibia unit.
Below are some of the latest machines installed at our Namibia factory:
The Galaxy™ 1000 is the world-leading product for the fully automated detection and mapping of internal features in rough Diamonds. The Galaxy™ 1000 can scan most rough Diamonds and accurately maps all the inclusions in the Diamonds regardless of their type, size, and location. This unique process is performed quickly and automatically without the need for any “windows” being opened or other pre-processing of the rough stone.
Unlike alternative techniques, this revolutionary system operates virtually independent of the operators’ skill. It is designed to directly output its data to the Advisor™ – Sarine’s rough planning software, so as to confidently enable true optimization of the value of the polished stone, based on all the relevant C’s, including, for the first time ever, the Clarity.
DiaExpert™ is the world’s leading rough Diamonds planning system, used by most major manufacturers. The DiaExpert™ Eye provides all the same functionality of the DiaExpert™ with the additional ability to view the interior of a rough Diamonds using a high resolution optical inspection camera and the Charting software add-on. It enables the user to chart the rough stone’s primary inclusions with very high precision. Thus the DiaExpert™ Eye provides a manual capability to add to the Advisor’s™ planning solution the consideration of the stones internal inclusions. VS1 through I3 inclusions can be located and charted.
The DiaExpert™ Eye accurately scans all types of rough Diamonds and utilizes a cutting edge laser scanner to map grooves, holes and other concave areas on the rough Diamonds surface. The DiaExpert Eye generates a 3D representation of the stone utilized in the planning process. When integrated with the Advisor™ you can optimize on Carat weight and Cut with an added dimension of Clarity, as well as with the highest confidence. Combined with the DiaMark™, accurate manufacturing instructions can be physically marked on the stone providing a full planning solution.
DiaMark™ Z is the industry standard laser marking system that engraves cutting instructions on rough Diamonds, subsequent to the planning process. By combining the DiaExpert™ rough Diamonds modeling platform and the world-leading Advisor™ rough planning software with the DiaMark™ Z, you create the optimal rough planning solution. The DiaMark™ Z provides the perfect link between the Diamonds planning stage and the Diamonds cutting processes, by marking sawing lines, table, culet and girdle reference lines and shaping models for bruting, thus allowing the confident transfer of data from one department in your manufacturing plant to the next.
The Quazer™ is an advanced high quality, green laser Diamonds sawing and shaping system, offering the combined benefits of high productivity and profitability, low risk of breakage and flexibility cutting profiles. The Quazer™ offers the best Diamonds processing value in the market and ensures fast return on investment. The Quazer’s green laser technology has an advanced control software and exceptionally user-friendly operating system.
It offers the advantages of minimal weight loss (double-sided sawing), minimal risk of damage to your diamonds, high throughput, easy maintenance, high durability and many optional add-ons including pie-cut sawing, shaping and offline job setup functionalities. The Quazer™ is a highly cost effective system for diamond sawing, bruting and shaping, employing green laser technology and advanced sawing and optional shaping capabilities, enabling more value to be confidently extracted from any rough stone. The Quazer™ utilization of a high-end green laser has proven its effectiveness in sawing high tension stones whilst maintaining near-zero breakage rates.
DiaMension™ AXIOM is a high-end Diamonds scanner for measuring and modeling polished Diamonds. After 25 years of 3D modeling based on shadows the DiaMension™ AXIOM revolutionizes with new in-light direct modeling of real-time microscope analysis, detecting the tiniest imperfections of the Diamonds, such as facet Junctions.
The DiaMension™ AXIOM is the only scanner that enables fully automated cut and symmetry grading.
The DiaMension™ AXIOM is the only scanner that enables fully automated cut and symmetry grading.
The Helium Polish Diamonds scanner is probably the most precise and popular polish Diamonds scanner used invariably by Diamonds cutting factories, laboratories and dealers alike. Helium has become a de facto standard today for accurate measurement of various parameters and its deviations. Today it has been whole-heartedly accepted by all Global Diamonds Grading labs, which includes GIA, AGS, IGI, HRD, GSI, IIJ, WGI, GTL (GJEPC), IDI and various others. When a Diamonds is scanned with this scanner, a very accurate 3D-model is constructed, which details the facets slope angle, its azimuth and its junction with adjacent facets. This 3D model allows accurate visualization and realistic image rendering, to objectively analyse and grade symmetry + cut. The model will show major and minor symmetry errors, which can be used to generate reports based on various appraisal system. The program allows users to create various user defined reports, to achieve the final goal. Very accurate 3D model allows the user to perform ray trace analysis, and calculate light return for the scanned model.
By using a special light source, Avalight, one can visualise the surface finish of a facet with very high contrast. Polishing lines can be observed more easily with this light source than with a classical light source. This method makes the grading of stones out of the tang much easier. By putting a facet in reflection with Avalight, the smoothness can be observed instantly
We started our manufacturing operations at Botswana, Gaborone in Aug 2022. Backed with a Diamonds processing experience of more than 30 years, Ankit Gems Botswana (Pty) Ltd has already created a niche in manufacturing triple Excellent Rounds and exclusive Fancy Shaped Diamonds.
Being true to our commitment of embracing latest technologies at all stages of manufacturing, this facility operates at the highest technical standards. The technical advancement adopted and machineries deployed at this factory are at par with our Surat and Namibia facilities, enabling us to manufacture high-quality natural Diamonds consistently.
Understanding the importance of quality product above everything else, the factory has been designed in a manner that ensures each craftsman is given the space, tools and guidance required, to process the most exceptional solitaires.
Due to our operational expertize and credibility within the Diamonds industry, we are reckoned amongst the few companies in the world, to have achieved sight allocation in Botswana. This allows us to implement a more sustainable and transparent operational practice in Botswana.
The new facility not only promises exceptional high-quality Diamonds, but also provides new employment opportunities and skill transfer to Botswana locals.
We always make a conscious effort to hire and train local artisans. Having trained the local workforce in Namibia, gives us an edge in replicating the same in our other manufacturing units.
We send our experts in host country to train and impart manufacturing know-how to the locals hired.
Moreover, we also call a handful of these artisans to our Surat facility, to familiarise them with the entire manufacturing process and thus enhance their cutting and polishing skills.
These trained artisans in turn lead the local workforce, to process high-quality Diamonds locally.
