page_title: WD Lab Grown Diamonds
section_title: Diamond production
hierarchical_section_title: WD Lab Grown Diamonds / Diamond production
caption_attribution_description: English: Two diamonds grown by Washington Diamonds Corporation.
context_page_description: WD Lab Grown Diamonds is a company in the Washington, D.C. area producing lab-grown diamonds for both jewelry and hi-tech applications.
context_section_description: WD Lab Grown Diamonds uses chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to grow diamonds. More specifically, they use a single crystal technique licensed from the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
  WD Lab Grown Diamonds announced its first commercially available diamonds on September 18, 2012. The company has gradually been producing larger and better quality diamonds. WD Lab Grown Diamonds first 5 carat round brilliant diamond was graded by International Gemological Institute (IGI) on June 1, 2016. (WD Lab Grown Diamonds' diamonds were originally certified by the American Gemological Society (AGS), until the AGS stopped grading lab-grown diamonds. Their diamonds are now certified by IGI.) On May 22, 2018, WD Lab Grown Diamonds announced that they had produced at 9.04 carat gem-quality diamond (graded as I color VS2 clarity IDEAL cut), shattering their previous record of 6 carats (January 2018) and setting a new record for the gem quality lab grown diamond industry. 
  Robbins Brothers and Brilliant Earth are their primary customers. WD Lab Grown Diamonds is also the supplier for the Carnegie Institution.
  Although WD Lab Grown Diamonds is currently focused primarily on the gem market, it plans to move further into the technology sector in the future. WD Lab Grown Diamonds announced in February 2018 that one of its scientific quality 6mm diamond anvils set a record when it was able to withstand 600,000 atmospheres of pressure in a lab study at Oak Ridge National Library.
caption: Two diamonds grown by WD Lab Grown Diamonds.
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