Checking the gloss for attractive products

Gloss measurement instrument can ensure that a wide range of products look attractive to customers.

Rhopoint Instruments has launched the Novo-Gloss Litea lightweight and durable instrument for measuring gloss.

In most manufacturing industries, attention is given to the surface quality of the product before it reaches the customer.

Steel parts are plated with chrome and polished to protect them from corrosion; car body work receives coats of paint and tough coatings to protect it from the elements; furniture is varnished and marble is cut and highly polished to give it a mirror like finish.

The reason for these finishing processes is often to protect the product and to make it look attractive to a potential buyer.

During this process, inconsistent raw materials or problems in manufacturing can lead to the opposite - unprotected products that look of substandard quality.

Poorly cured paint on the car body will be dull and more likely to chip off, steel parts that are unevenly plated will not be durable, under-polished marble or badly varnished furniture may look of poor workmanship and will not match previously produced batches.

To ensure product consistency and happy customers, many industries use gloss as a measure of surface quality.

Gloss is simply a measure of reflected light from a surface at a known angle.

The Novo-Gloss Litea has been designed as a gloss measurement tool for use in every industry.

Compliant to international standards for gloss measurement, it has features such as downloadable statistics and automatic calibration.

It can measure the gloss of any flat surface from ultra matt plastics to the mirror finish of highly polished metals.

Its resolution of 0.1 gloss units makes it accurate enough to detect very small changes in surface characteristics that are undetectable to the human eye.

Applications range from automobiles and polished metals to paper and decorative stone work.

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