Casting
Casting is a cornerstone of jewellery manufacturing, enabling UK jewellers, designers, and suppliers to produce precise, repeatable designs at scale while maintaining creative flexibility. From traditional lost-wax casting to cutting-edge digital processes, advances in this area continue to transform production efficiency and design possibilities. Jewellery Focus covers casting techniques, equipment innovations, and supply chain developments, offering trade professionals insights into how this essential process supports both bespoke and mass-market jewellery production.
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Apr- 2021 -16 AprilAppointments
The Alkemistry launches female apprenticeship scheme
The Alkemistry, an independent fine jeweller, has launched an apprentice training scheme for female jewellery designers. The year-long programme will provide apprentices with both practical skills and personal development to kick start their career in jewellery design. Three female employees have been selected for the scheme, which is intended to…
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Oct- 2020 -6 OctoberDesigners
Lucy Slyvester launches Autumn collection
Lucy Slyvester has revealed her new Autumn jewellery collection for the Halloween season. The Oxfordshire-based designers’ new line includes designs based on stag beetles, flies, moths, dragonflies and crab claws, all created with either solid silver or gold. Slyvester believes the new collection’s pieces ‘‘are a perfect fit for an…
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Aug- 2020 -18 AugustTrade Organisations
BAJ opens admissions for three short courses
The British Academy of Jewellery (BAJ) has announced the opening of admissions for three short courses at its Birmingham campus. Prospective students can now sign up for BAJ’s Stone Setting for Beginners, Wax Carving: Practice and Casting Theory, and Jewellery Manufacturing for Beginners programmes. Courses can be attended by both…
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Jul- 2020 -8 JulyFeatures
How Amazon can help the jewellery industry to shine
With Covid-19 shutting down the high street, many jewellery businesses have turned to online retail to survive. Even as shops begin to open their doors, social distancing measures mean that footfall is unlikely to be on the level it was pre-pandemic. But since two thirds of consumers begin their online…
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Jun- 2020 -17 JuneProduct Launches
Cast launches jewellery-making kit
Casting start-up Cast has launched a new kit that enables customers to design their own rings “from the comfort of their home”. Customers can now use its bespoke jewellery making kit to carve and create personalised and bespoke jewellery pieces in wax. The group will then cast the pieces and…
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May- 2020 -14 MayManufacturers
Hean Studio resumes operations
Hean Studio has revealed it is now reopen for business. The precious metal castings specialist had initially stopped operations in light of the ongoing pandemic. However, it has now reopened with a team of skeleton staff in order to keep employees safe and enable social distancing in line with government…
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1 MayAdvice
Covid-19 – Funding options and survival tips to keep the jewellery industry afloat
No business has been immune from the effects of the Covid-19, but the jewellery sector has in some ways been particularly vulnerable to the economic challenges posed by the virus. While firms in many sectors have been able to adapt to the circumstances by shifting to new and unfamiliar delivery…
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Feb- 2020 -28 FebruaryFeatures
Manufacturer Files: Kevan Scott
“I started my business in 1997 in my mum and dad’s cellar, while still employed at a place where I had worked for 12 years and where I also served my apprenticeship,” says Kevan Scott, founder of the jewellery manufacturer and designer Kevan Scott, when recounting how he started the…
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Dec- 2019 -12 DecemberSponsored
Why Vicenzaoro is the ‘innovation hub’ for the entire jewellery supply chain
Once again this year, Vicenzaoro January will be celebrating its hi-tech aspect with T.GOLD, the international show for jewellery machinery and the most innovative technologies applied to gold and jewellery processing. In fact, from 17 to 22 January, the Italian Exhibition Group event will consolidate its role of innovation hub…
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Nov- 2019 -25 NovemberManufacturer Files
The manufacturer files: Black Dragon Crafts
In a modestly-sized workshop on the side of a green hill in west Wales sits Black Dragon Crafts, a manufacturer which specialises in the creation of Celtic beads and jewellery. The whole operation is now run almost entirely by its founder, Annie Wealleans, who began crafting the historically inspired jewellery…
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