The Lab Gem Supplier

If you run a business, your reputation depends on the product and service that you provide to the end user.  Even if your customer service is well beyond what your competitor can offer, you can’t possibly succeed if you can’t provide the product quality to match that service.
Many wholesale distributors of loose cut cubic zirconia [...]

As a retailer who buys wholesale cubic zirconia from PehnecGems, it’s likely that some of your business comes from selling children’s jewelry. Many parents will be looking for affordable jewelry for their kids and will be interested in cubic zirconia pieces. With such a large range of sizes and colors, it’s easy to create bracelets, [...]

The hardness of loose cubic zirconia, lab created gems and naturally formed gemstones is measured by the Mohs scale. For instance, natural diamonds, Earth’s hardest mineral, are a perfect 10 on the Mohs scale. Lab created cubic zirconia are nearly as hard, registering 8.5 Mohs. Common talc (as in talcum powder) which can be easily scratched [...]

The presence of a dangerous, toxic heavy metal in popular low-cost children’s jewelry has American parents understandably panicked. Walmart and Claire’s were stripping their shelves of the dangerous jewelry items yesterday. The source of everyone’s concern was the discovery that many popular, low-cost, China-made children’s jewelry items contained dangerous levels of cadmium, a highly toxic heavy metal. [...]

Cubic zirconia gems are expected to lead jewelry trends in 2010. With America still struggling to climb out of the recession, the economy will remain a grounding force in fashion trends for 2010. American shoppers will look for practicality when wardrobe shopping. Smart basics in neutral grays and browns will be featured in sturdier fabrics. Also popular [...]

A new product is set to revolutionize the custom jewelry experience, placing jewelry customization at the fingertips of retail customers. Developed by Gemvision, well-known creators of Matrix, the industry’s most popular jewelry CAD-CAM program, CounterSketch Studio is a user-friendly jewelry design software program. Small enough to sit on top of a retail counter, CounterSketch Studio [...]

New video from Pehnec.com – in business since 1961 and proud to serve the world jewelry industry!

Lab created diamonds take nature’s gem-forming process and compacts it into a nanosecond in geologic time. The result is a glittering gem just as beautiful as nature’s creation, but without the multi-million year wait — and without the destructive and dangerous mining practices used to extract these rare beauties from the earth.
Diamonds are formed deep [...]

A diamond as big as your thumb, maybe even your fist that is absolutely, perfectly flawless. It’s the stuff of jewelers’ dreams. It would have to be an amazing fluke of nature, a thing of mystic legend rather than raw reality. But in the not so distant future, it could become a common occurrence in laboratories [...]

Last year a California woman accused Jewelry Television of Knoxville, Tennessee of fraudulent advertising and misrepresentation in selling treated gems without full disclosure. According to an online article posted on National Jeweler, the $5 million class action suit sought to recover money spent by thousands of cable shoppers who believed they were purchasing “highly-coveted, extremely [...]