Company Announcement - Elcometer revolutionises the hand-held glossmeter market

With all the features that you come to expect from an Elcometer designed and manufactured product, such as ease of use, menu driven colour display, robust and ergonomic design, statistics and graphing, USB & Bluetooth® _to Android and iPhone mobile devices, the new Elcometer 480 single, dual and triple angle glossmeters sets new standards in the field of hand-held gloss measurement.

Key Features include:
•Measure Gloss, Haze and % Reflectance in a single unit.
•Industry leading repeatability, reproducibility and inter-instrument agreement.
•Traceable to BAM standards- the gauge automatically calibrates & stores the calibration values and tile serial number into memory – for complete traceability.
•Up to 3 times faster than any other hand-held glossmeter in Standard Mode and 10 times faster in Scan Mode - providing real time, accurate gloss values over the entire surface area.
•Stores up to 40,000 readings in 2,000 alpha-numeric batches or connect your gauge via USB or Bluetooth® _to Android and iPhone mobile devices for instant data analysis and report generation.
•Manually entered or automatically created test limits, when combined with the gauge’s Differential Mode, provides users with instant Pass/Fail and variation from approved gloss values.
•Test limits can be set up on one gauge and seamlessly transferred via ElcoMaster™ PC software to any other Elcometer 480 either on your production line or your suppliers – ensuring uniform quality control inspection.

Manufactured in Elcometer’s state-of-the-art optics facility in the UK, each gauge is compatible with the ElcoMaster data management software, allowing gloss measurements to be combined with other key measurement parameters such as coating thickness, adhesion, climate and oven temperature profile data. For more information on the Elcometer 480 range of glossmeters, please visit www.elcometer480.com or contact Elcometer at sales@elcometer.com