CanTech The Grand Tour 2024 2024年3月26日 ～ 28日

CanTech The Grand Tour is a conference and tabletop exhibition for metal packaging manufacturers from across the globe.

Join us at CanTech The Grand Tour

Metal substrates are a primary method for brands to convey identity and brand values. However, two-piece metal packaging is expensive to produce. Not only is it difficult to evaluate color on reflective surfaces like beverage cans, but the high-speed production environment makes print color control a challenge.

Color measurement is the fastest, most accurate, and cost-effective way to produce consistent color across processing plants and achieve sustainability initiatives.

Before the show, visit our Metal Packaging Manufacturers page to learn more and download the brochure.

During the show, we invite you to join a presentation by Pieter Mulder, our Brand Expert, to learn how color measurement can help you get color right on beverage cans.

Topic: Consistent Cloud-Based Color Control
Date: 27 March
Time: 14:50 - 15:15 PM IST

Please also stop by our table to ask questions and see live demos of our solutions for beverage can color measurement.

Featured Hardware Solutions

• Ci64 Sphere Spectrophotometer: Offers simultaneous SPIN/SPEX and correlated gloss to collect reliable spectral data for statistical process control. Using configurable menus, operators can view measurement procedures and data directly from the device for consistency across shifts and facilities.
• Cup and Cylinder Fixture: Has a sample-positioning arm to hold an un-necked beverage can and a bench to position the Ci64 at the correct height and angle for consistent measurements without deformation or distortion.

Featured Software Solutions

• PantoneLIVE: A digital, cloud-based repository that houses all Pantone digital color master and material-dependent standards so beverage can suppliers can retrieve spectral data of achievable target colors. The world’s leading CPG brands use PantoneLIVE to share Pantone colors as well as their own private brand colors.
• Color iQC Software: A configurable, job-based software solution helps operators easily evaluate whether a measured sample is in tolerance of the standard. With Color iQC, brands, suppliers, and manufacturers can define standards, tolerances, settings, and measurement modes and ensure correct color measurement practices between operators and across global locations.
• NetProfiler Software: A cloud-based blend of software and color standards automatically verifies and optimizes device performance to calibrate issues caused by age, wear, or environmental conditions. NetProfiler also identifies instruments in need of service before they result in off-color products and reduces variation between devices from different suppliers.

Featured Learning Resources

• How Coca-Cola Addresses Packaging Sustainability: Learn how X-Rite Pantone’s Digital Print Quality Program addresses Coca-Cola’s sustainability initiatives and facilitates accurate color on different packaging materials across their supply chain.
• Color Measurement & Tolerancing for Metal Packaging: Download this whitepaper to learn how an X-Rite color measurement solution helps create a repeatable measurement process for consistent packaging color with less waste
• Beverage Can Gauge R&R Study: Completed by X-Rite and Sun Chemical, this study confirms the accuracy and repeatability of an X-Rite digital color solution for manufacturing beverage cans.
• How to Capture Color on Cylindrical-Shaped Items: Learn how X-Rite's Cup and Cylinder Fixture and a Ci64 spectrophotometer measure cylindrical-shaped samples at the correct height and angle.

Can’t make it to the show?
Get in Touch to speak with a Brand Color Expert to learn more about color management for beverage can manufacturers.