Colour Measurement for Powdered Raw Materials

Building materials come in many forms: one of them being in powder form, such as grey materials like cement, mortar, or plaster. The colour of these products depends on the raw materials used to manufacture them. In order to maintain consistency and colour uniformity, it is important to control these raw materials. This is especially true for concrete, where it is necessary to control the aggregates used to obtain the desired colour using a colorimeter or spectrophotometer.
 
Konica Minolta colorimeters are widely used in the production of cement, aggregates, and related products, offering a comparatively rugged and straightforward solution for colour and colour difference measurement that can be used either for colour control and process control for drying/curing.

Colour difference is more perceptible over larger areas, and this is commonly experienced within building materials.

Colour control can help businesses to control processes and offer competitive advantage through improved consistency of finished product.

Konica Minolta offers robust, high-performance colour measurement instruments and quality control software used to establish and maintain colour quality standards in the building materials industry. These solutions enable users to accurately assess and control the quality of raw materials and finished products in production.

A portable tristimulus colorimeter will offer a simple and mobile solution for measuring traceable L*a*b* colour data that can be stored, analysed or shared with customers or supply partners. A benchtop colorimeter or spectrophotometer provides a more static solution that may offer additional flexibility and additional data for the development lab.

By measuring and communicating traceable colour data, organisations in the building materials industry can build supply relationships based on quality, consistency and clear communication, reducing subjectivity from specification through to approval.

The product specialists from Konica Minolta can offer the expertise from hundreds of installations within this field, supported by a network of authorised service facilities in order to offer swift repairs, and to maintain the accuracy and traceability of these instruments year-round.