Singapore, 10 September 2013
Konica Minolta Sensing Singapore Pte Ltd, a company dedicated to color measurement, control and solution won 2013 Asian Manufacturing Award for Best in Food / Beverage Safety & Testing. This award is for Konica Minolta Spectrophotometer CM-5.
This prestigious recognition was awarded on 29 August 2013 by the Manufacturing Group of publications at Contineo Media, publisher of Asia Food Journal (www.asiafoodjournal.com) and PharmaAsia (www.pharmaasia.com) in the annual AMA Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony held at Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore.
The annual event provides recognition to companies providing industrial technology solutions and value-added services enabling manufacturers to reach and sustain the required levels of world-class performance.
Awards are given across six main themes of Automation & Control, Industrial Software, Logistics & Supply Chain, Food & Beverage Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry and Corporate Social Responsibility.
The winners will be selected by an international panel of expert judges who will analyse and rank the nominations received. The judging process is audited by an external party to ensure fairness and transparency.
Spectrophotometer CM-5 is an instrument capable of handling a wide range of food ingredients and packaging. It is the only top port type spectrophotometer for reflectance and transmittance with full stand-alone function. A compact and lightweight color instrument designed to be simple to use with an error free color measurement workflow even by non-experts.
The CM-5 is capable of measuring powder, paste, liquid and solid samples such as flour, syrup, alcohol, juice, milk, food colors, flavours & fragrances, powder, bio oil, bred and whey. On top of that, CM-5 can measure specialized liquid indices like Gardner, Iodine, Hazen, APHA, European Pharmacopoeia and US Pharmacopeia for applications in chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors.
It has an automatic calibration system and there’s no need to go through the calibration procedure manually. The user friendly on-screen operation wizard prompts the user to take measurement by just following the instruction shown on the large color LCD. There’s no need to connect CM-5 to a computer as all information will be shown on the LCD screen.
User’s measurement setting can be stored on a USB drive by plugging it into the instrument. This makes it easy to set up the measurement setting especially when a single instrument is used by multiple users. Target data and sample data can also be downloaded onto the USB drive for analysis on a computer.
The CM-5, top notch color instrument aids many food and beverage manufacturers worldwide in their quest to ensure both their food and beverage product quality. With the precise color information, food technologists can easily and objectively determine the color quality of their food products. Unlike yesteryears, today’s consumers associate the color of food products with its quality prior to their purchase. Food manufacturers who appreciate the importance of color as a mark of quality use product color as an integral part of their marketing strategy in this competitive market place.
About Konica Minolta Sensing Singapore Pte Ltd
Konica Minolta Sensing Singapore Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc, is recognized as the international leader of industrial color, light and 3D shape measurement. The company is responsible for product lines that continuously revolutionizing how visual perception is measured by the world. More information can be found at https://sensing.konicaminolta.asia/
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