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UK Assay Offices

UK Assay Offices play a vital role in maintaining trust and integrity within the jewellery industry, ensuring precious metal items meet legal standards through hallmarking. For jewellers, manufacturers, wholesalers and designers, their work is central to compliance and consumer confidence. Jewellery Focus covers developments at the UK’s Assay Offices, including regulatory updates, technological advancements in testing, and changes impacting the trade. Our reporting also explores how these institutions support the industry with guidance, innovation, and services that affect daily operations for professionals across the jewellery supply chain.

UK Assay Offices

UK Assay Offices play a vital role in maintaining trust and integrity within the jewellery industry, ensuring precious metal items meet legal standards through hallmarking. For jewellers, manufacturers, wholesalers and designers, their work is central to compliance and consumer confidence. Jewellery Focus covers developments at the UK’s Assay Offices, including regulatory updates, technological advancements in testing, and changes impacting the trade. Our reporting also explores how these institutions support the industry with guidance, innovation, and services that affect daily operations for professionals across the jewellery supply chain.

June hallmarking jumps 12.3%

The total number of hallmarked items surged 12.3% in June, an increase of 94,023 articles…

18ct gold grows 12% in Q1 hallmarking figures

The total number of articles hallmarked fell across all categories except platinum in March,…

Hallmarking figures drop in January

After a strong year of growth for hallmarking figures in 2014 the total number of articles…

Hallmarking set to top 10m items for first time in three years

The total number of hallmarked items is set to top 10 million for the first time since 2011,…

HALLMARKING: Gold keeps climbing, silver lets the side down

Gold continued its upward trajectory in the month of October with a 22.1% rise in the number…

Upward hallmarking trajectory continues in August

The positive trend for UK hallmarking figures continued in August, according to the latest…

14ct gold surges 60% in June hallmarking figures

Rising hallmarking figures showed no signs of slowing in June with the four UK assay offices…

April hallmarking figures up by a fifth, 9ct gold up almost 50%

Figures released by The Birmingham Assay Office have revealed that the total number of…

Q1 hallmarking figures rise 23%, gold jewellery on the up-and-up

The number of articles hallmarked across the four UK assay offices rose by 23 per cent in…

Hallmarking figures for 9ct gold rise more than 33%

Figures released today by the Birmingham Assay Office show that the number of 9ct gold items…
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