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News Release from: Rhopoint Instruments | Subject: Novo-Gloss Lite
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 30 March 2006
New palm sized gloss meter
Rhopoint Instruments announces the launch of it new lightweight and durable instrument for measuring gloss - the Novo-Gloss Lite
In most manufacturing industries a lot of 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
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 24 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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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 material 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.
Rhopoint Instruments has been designing and manufacturing gloss meters for over thirty years.
Their latest instrument, the Novo-Gloss Lite has been designed as a gloss measurement tool for use in every industry.
Fully compliant to the important international standards for gloss measurement it is loaded with features such as downloadable statistics and automatic calibration to make it the smallest, most powerful and user friendly Novo-Gloss instrument available.
It can measure the gloss of any flat surface from ultra matt plastics to the mirror finish of highly polished metals.
Its high resolution (0.1 gloss units) make it accurate enough to detect very small changes in surface characteristics that are undetectable to the human eye.
All these features have been combined in a cost effective and flexible instrument that can measure the surface characteristics of many manufactured items, from automobiles and polished metals to paper and decorative stone work.
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