LANXESS's new colorimetric system enables unique service for leather industry

13 Jul '05

4 min read

Germany based largest leather chemical specialist LANXESS offers colorimetrics and more Web-based service devoted to pigments used in leather manufacture Meeting customer needs swiftly and accurately. Web-based service devoted to pigments used in leather manufacture.

The Leather Business Unit of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH is using a web-based colorimetrics and color formulation system to integrate all its expertise in color standardization and formulation relating to leather finishing pigments.

As well as intensive technical support in developing optimal color formulations, the Leather BU also offers its customers a regularly updated range of standard compositions for fashion colors for the next couple of seasons.

LANXESS's web-based service devoted to pigments used in leather manufacture. Measurement with a spectrophotometer. Meeting customer needs swiftly and accurately.

Using the X-RiteColor Master Web Edition, a hardware and software package from X-Rite GmbH, Cologne, LANXESS already has suitable technological means at its disposal at four Intranet-linked sites in Leverkusen (Germany), Wuxi (China), Zárate (Argentina), and Sao Leopoldo (Brazil).

Stefan Wildbrett, leather technologist at LANXESS in Leverkusen, explains the benefits, saying: "We no longer need to send data storage media or color samples half way around the world by mail or courier to be certain we have found the correct color with our formulation. The new color measuring system calculates this formulation precisely and error-free in seconds."

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