Soldering, or more appropriately brazing, is a capillary fill system where solder is heated with a gas-oxygen torch or open flame. The solder then flows across and bridges the noble metals together.Soldering, or more appropriately brazing, is a capillary fill system where solder is heated with a gas-oxygen torch or open flame. The solder then flows across and bridges the noble metals together.Soldering, or more appropriately brazing, is a capillary fill system where solder is heated with a gas-oxygen torch or open flame. The solder then flows across and bridges the noble metals together.

Hallmark has been acting as a safeguard to purchasers of gold and gold articles for centuries in various countries. In simple terms, Hallmark is a purity certification of gold articles in accordance with Indian Standard specifications. Gold articles are evaluated and tested at an official Assaying and Hallmarking Centre and then certified that the metal used conforms to the national and international standard of fineness and purity.

Hallmarks are used to guarantee the purity or fineness of gold and silver articles. With us, you would be getting precise hallmarking with quality assessment. Hallmarking on gold and silver jewel is the best of our services to our customers from years. As you know gold and silver ornaments are too soft to withstand any marking, wear and tear even for purity marking. So, we prefer laser marking for hallmarking to prevent decorations from any kind of damage or unwanted marks. Hallmarking can be done with punches, X-ray fluorescence technique, cupellation and many other ways. But the prevalent is laser marking. We hallmark on all gold and silver articles to define its purity.

Hallmark is basically a symbol that acts as a safeguard of gold and golden objects that indicates the purity of gold. In simpler words we can say that Hallmark is the certification of the purity of gold. Hallmarking process basically involves evaluation of golden objects at hallmarking and Assaying centre which are later certified as pure on the national and international standards. Hallmarking in India is a voluntary process. The jewelers who intend to get their jewellery hallmarked contact Bureau of Indian Standards for a fee based license, after acquiring the license the jewellery is sent to BIS recognized A&HMC. The Indian Government had launched BIS in the year 2000.

What does hallmark consist of?

Hallmark consists of five components i.e. BIS Mark, the fineness number (corresponding to given caratage), Assaying and Hallmarking Centre’s mark, jeweller’s mark and year of marking denoted by a code letter and decided by BIS (e.g. code letter ‘A’ was approved by BIS for year 2000, ‘B’ being used for the year 2001 and ‘C’ for 2002). The marking is done either using punches or laser marking machine. The BIS hallmark, a mark of conformity widely accepted by the consumer, bestows the additional confidence to the consumer on the purity of gold jewellery.

How does the hallmarking scheme operate?

As per this scheme the jewellery retailer/manufacturer desirous of obtaining a licence apply to BIS for use of Standard Mark (hallmark) on their jewellery. After registration, BIS officials conduct a preliminary inspection for verification of premises retailing/manufacturing, testing facilities and competence of testing personnel. A sample is drawn from the jewellers retail/manufacturing premises for independent testing. Based on the satisfactory preliminary inspection report and test report of the sample drawn during inspection, licence is granted to the jeweller.