AkzoNobel and BYK-Gardner Digitize Surface Texture for Powder Coatings
AMSTERDAM — Customers have been benefiting from AkzoNobel’s expert digitization of color for decades. Now the company is entering new territory with the help of pioneering technology developed by BYK-Gardner, which can digitally measure and control the textured surfaces of powder coatings.
Launched in April, the spectro2profiler represents a major step forward for the industry because currently, the only way to check the quality of a textured powder-coating surface is to carry out a visual inspection. The new tool – which can measure color and gloss, and analyze the 3D topography of the surface texture – is being hailed as a game-changer.