Quality Control Procedures and Instrumentation for Colour, Visual, Appearance and Physical Testing

Ten Million! That is the number of different colours that we can distinguish. No wonder we can not remember colours well enough to identify a particular shade. However, the quality criterion "colour" is becoming more and more important in every industry. Uniform colour influences customers' likes and dislikes. This is of particular importance when the individual components of the final product are manufactured at different company sites, or even more complicated when several suppliers are involved .

APPEARANCE TESTING
for paints, coatings, inks or plastics

Uniform appearance is an important quality criterion for many products. Gloss effects are based on the interaction of light with the physical properties of the sample surface. The other influencing component is the physiological evaluation scale.

BYK-Gardner offers complete system solutions for appearance control. Whether you are testing paints, coatings, inks or plastics we have the instrument to help

The Visual - NCS System makes it easy to visualise, select, communicate, document and manufacture any colour rationally, accurately and consistently. This is contrary to other complex technical production driven systems. NCS provides architects, designers and consumers with a perfect colour navigation, design selection, specification and documentation tool.
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VeriVide is the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of highly specialised colour and visual assessment equipment, wherever this is critical to product quality and consistency.
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BYK-Gardner colour spectrophotometers help you to achieve the right colour in just about any paint, coating or plastics colour application. Whether you need to control the colour of injected molded interior automotive parts, metallic automotive body panels, or laptop housings, BYK-Gardner has the colour instrument for your application
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Color QC and Matching Software
Since 1986 CyberChrome color experts have specialized in writing color quality control (QC) and computer color matching software (formulation). Our OnColor Suite of software works with most color spectrophotometers in use today.
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VMA-GETZMANN - innovative dispersing and fine milling systems Dissolvers, vacuum dissolvers, bead mills, basket mills, homogenisers and stirrers for laboratory, pilot plant and production
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The new intelligence in gloss measurement | With the new micro-gloss glossmeter you can measure any material - paints, plastics or highly reflective metals. Its new expanded measurement range of up to 2000 gloss units always guarantees reliable results – in accordance with international standards. More Information



Orange Peel and DOI measurement on high to semi gloss surfaces … appearance control is no longer limited to final topcoat inspection. Like the wave-scan DOI, the optical profile of high gloss surfaces is detected using a laser light source. More information

Orange Peel and DOI measurement
Now you can measure Orange Peel and DOI on small and curved surfaces: Automotive add-on parts - like bumpers, gas tank doors, mirror housings, door handles, decorative trim or motorcycle parts. More information

Physical Test Equipment
BYK Gardner Meet your testing needs from A-V. Abrasion, paint application, density, dispersion, drying time, film thickness, hardness, impact and flexibility resistance, viscosity and just about any other paint, coating, or plastic physical property can be measured with our range of Physical Test Equipment. More

ElektroPhysik is one of the leading manufacturers of measuring instruments for the surface technology. Being a pioneer in the field of non-destructive coating thickness measurement, ElektroPhysik, in cooperation with national and international standardising institutes and universities has successfully advanced new product developments along with international standardisation of the coating thickness measurement.
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