Think Stothard – The Colour Measurement & Appearance Measurement Specialists.

Think Stothard provide instruments and solutions that duplicate how our eyes see colour and perceive appearance. They measure your product's colour and overall appearance and give numerical values that correlate to what you see. These objective measurements optimise the confidence of your quality decisions. Think Stothard has expertise, experience and a range of quality manufactures and solutions to ensure that you have the right instrument and solution for your colour measurement and appearance application (s).

We start by working and evaluating your product's application and then will specify the target colour and appearance of your products. Once this has been completed we will assign acceptance levels to ensure our instrumentation knows what a pass and fail is with quite a degree of accuracy. We will then find a suitable solution and instrument, whether it be a portable instrument for measuring raw materials, a bench top instrument that will be based in a laboratory or an online instrument that is built into your production line. Most of our instruments and solutions include colour measurement techiques as measuring colour forms part of the overal appearance of your product.

We are available to create custom made product holders that will enable the most difficult and non-uniform products to be easily measured.

We supply Hunterlab Colour measurement & Appearance measurement instruments ( colorimeters and spectrophotometers) that were designed and created by Richard Hunter, the founder of the LAB colour scale some 60 years ago for the Procter & Gamble company. As a brand they supply instruments that can measure quite complicated applications such as food, chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Textiles into over 30 countries worldwide and provide a unique aftercare service that has helped them maintain their position in the market today. These instruments use a variety of colour measurement techniques to collect spectral data to provide an extremely acurate solution to measuring the overal appearance of your product.

We can measure gloss and retro reflectivity on a range of Zehntner instruments that are manufactured in Switzerland by Zehntner Testing Instruments. These gloss measurement tools are extremely well built and also follow a multi application policy.

Our instruments include various options to enable organizations to conform to worldwide, set standards and data is made widely available with options to encrypt and protect confidential results.

If you require application knowledge, a robust, accurate product that will perform for many years with an after sales service that is guaranteed to keep you working into the future then you require a company that thinks about the application and not a one fit, fits all solution.

If you are interested in learning about colour measurement, appearance measurment and related science and technology then please contact us to discuss our colour measurement seminars that we hold throughout the year.