Thickness and color testing equipment helps maintain aesthetic quality, protects products and assists in lowering cost and waste. Associate Editor Diana Mirel discusses new technology for testing equipment.
High-tech quality-control equipment can help companies maximize coating usage and boost their bottom lines. In the past, costly and complex color and thickness testing equipment primarily catered to larger companies with bigger budgets. However, in the past five to 10 years, quality-control testing equipment has decreased in price while advancing technologically, which makes purchasing the equipment more practical and affordable for smaller companies on tighter budgets.
“Gauges are very affordable now,” says James Fusco, technical coordinator at Paul N. Gardner Co. (Pompano Beach, FL). “Mom-and-pop paint and body shops around the corner can afford testing equipment now.”