Colour and Appearance Measurement of Plastics products

The appearance of plastic products is a key quality parameter with an undeniable influence on the customer's purchase decision. The appearance of many plastic products typically involves not only colour and opacity, but also gloss and surface texture. Whether the plastic product is opaque or translucent, flat, curved, thin, or thick, offering appealing colours, delivering products in the correct colour, and delivering consistency are expected from the modern plastic producer.

Offering a wide range of colours or custom colours within specification is a proven way to build supply chain relationships and grow your business.

Konica Minolta is a solution provider for the plastic industry, offering colour measurement instruments, colour data and matching software, innovative gloss meters, and controlled lighting cabinets for visual assessment.

Our experts can help you to implement measurement and control processes that will benefit your business.

• Improve product quality
• Reduce costs and waste
• Improve communication with supply chain partners, building relationships based on collaboration and improvement

Digital colour and appearance data can be used to expedite the supply process, greatly improving companies' ability to react to the market by reducing the risks and costs associated with producing, distributing, and maintaining physical standards, subjective specification, and approval processes with customers.

Colour measurement, applied when visiting with customers, agreeing specifications with suppliers, in plastic product innovation 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 Colibri®’s advanced 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. By improving colour communication, owners can dramatically save time, and reduce waste and rejects.

Konica Minolta benchtop spectrophotometers provide operators with the ability to measure all manner of samples both in reflectance in transmittance, whether these are films, foils, sheets, pellets, or plastic parts. Whilst customers, who require portability, are well served by close tolerance instruments like the CM-26dG or for textured plastic producers (like the automotive industry) the CM-25cG.

Our partnership with Rhopoint instruments and Just Normlicht GmbH (light cabinet) offers our customers access to innovative solutions for gloss measurement and a range of controlled lighting assessment solutions.