BYK

BYK-Gardner is your partner for complete QC solutions for coatings and plastics testing, specializing in colour, appearance, and physical properties.

Colour

Ten million! That is the number of different colours that we can distinguish. No wonder we cannot remember colours well enough to identify a particular shade. However, the quality criterion "colour" is becoming more and more important in every industry. Uniform colour influences customers.

This is of particular importance when the individual components of the final product are manufactured at different company sites or even more complicated when several suppliers are involved. Nevertheless, in the end the colour must be right. BYK-Gardner has a wide range of colour measurement instrumentation including:

Solid Colour
Metallic Colour
Light Booths

Appearance

Uniform appearance is an important quality criterion for many products. Gloss effects are based on the interaction of light with the physical properties of the sample surface. The other influencing component is the physiological evaluation scale. The human eye is still the best tool to evaluate gloss differences. However, the visual surface control is insufficient, because evaluation conditions are not clearly defined, and people see and judge differently. In addition, the subjective perception of appearance is dependent on the personal experience: what is glossy for a paper manufacturer might be dull for an automotive maker. BYK-Gardner offers a complete system solution to test appearance: from portable instruments to bench top instruments with QC-software:

Gloss
Haze
Orange Peel / DOI
Transparency

Physical Properties

Physical properties of Coatings and Plastics need to be tested on a regular basis. BYK-Gardner has a wide range of instruments including:

Abrasion
Adhesion
Application
Conductivity
Density
Dispersion
Drying Time
Film Thickness
Hardness
Impact / Flexibility
Moisture
Temperature
Viscosity