Colour and Gloss Measurement of Industrial Paint & Coatings

Industrial paints & coatings are applied to a vast range of surfaces and components typically providing some function ahead of more decorative paints. Industrial coatings provide corrosion resistance or protection from wear and tear or light, can be resistant to decay, or provide some other mechanical benefit. Therefore, for such products, visual appearance is not the primary characteristic but consistent and accurate colour is still important for the customer perception of quality or brand.

The ability to offer a range of accurate colours or customise a product to the customer specification can be a powerful way to differentiate your products and meet or exceed customer expectation.

Konica Minolta Measuring Instruments offer a solution for accurate colour of industrial paint and coating applications, from raw materials to finished products. Colour measurement allows organisations to implement data driven process control and quality control procedures that improves output consistency, saving time and waste. Whether for internal controls, colour specification and communication with your supply chain, colour matching or remaking from a database of colours, our software solutions are supported by an experienced team who can help you to accurately specify, produce, and communicate colour, even accounting for non-colour related properties.

Digital colour and appearance data can be used to expedite the supply process, greatly improving a paint producer's ability to react to the market by reducing the risks and costs associated with producing, distributing, and maintaining physical standards.
Colour measurement, applied when visiting with customers, agreeing specifications with suppliers, in paint and coating development laboratories, benchmarking industry competitors, or reporting for internal quality control programs, can build supply chain relationships based on quality, consistency, and reducing subjectivity from specification and approval.

Konica Minolta has a dedicated team of experts responsible for implementing, training, optimising, and customising our computer colour matching and digital colour data platform Colibri®.
Colibri® is a modular digital colour data platform that allows companies to develop and grow their systems as necessary, with specialised modules for all functions of the colour supply chain. Owners can build libraries and share data and functions securely with supply partners via cloud or on-premises infrastructure. Benefitting from the advanced colour matching algorithm, colour producers can greatly simplify matching and correction steps, easily switch in our materials or colourants as dictated by the market or supply chain.

Our benchtop spectrophotometers are manufactured to the highest standards, to provide you with accuracy and traceability alongside innovative features like a built-in ISO compliant gloss sensor or built in display and operator wizard. A portable spectrophotometer such as the CM-26dG is the perfect accompaniment to the process, allowing operators mobility and flexibility whilst maintaining traceability and industry leading inter model agreement with other instruments in the supply chain and integrating a 60-degree gloss sensor.

Through our partnership with Rhopoint Instruments, we offer a number of advanced gloss and appearance measurement solutions, including the innovative IQ glossmeters which measure DOI and Haze. Development teams can utilise the Rhopoint TAMS, a portable machine vision system, to inspect surfaces throughout the coating process, from surface preparation, primer, coats, and finishing.