The quality controlling for the coating color used to be carried out so far by picking up color samples periodically from the line and bringing them to a laboratory for analysis.
However, in the much improved and high speed production sites of these days, the above method would inevitably bring us about a large amount of loss in the color production, since the method would consume much time, after any detection of undesirable things and before any counter -measure to be taken to stop it would be taken. This has become the more peculiar, the hirer the machine speed has got, and “on-line color analysis” has become a must with that much increased coater speed.
On the other hand, the continuous color make-down system has made its debut, out of the tendency to minimize the color consumption and to best optimize the production efficiency, and it calls for “on-line color analysis” as an indispensable part of it.
“COLOR-MAT” is a highly reliable an on-line color analysis system which on-line takes measurements of temperature, solid content, air content, and rheology factors, and is even equipped with a self-cleaning system. It can be connected to whichever existing DCS systems in mills, and has been introduced to a larger number of paper mills in Europe.
The best position along on the coater line at which “COLOR-MAT” should be line-connected, should be as much closer to a coater head as possible, to optimize the coater operation and consequent paper quality.
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