QUICK GUIDE: Choosing the Right HunterLab Spectrophotometer

by Graintec Scientific

When colour defines quality, having the right spectrophotometer is essential to safeguard your product, eliminate guesswork, and meet strict industry standards. Graintec Scientific provides industry-leading HunterLab instruments tailored to a wide variety of unique applications across the food, agriculture, industrial, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Here is a quick guide to help you find the ideal colour measurement solution to optimise your quality control workflow.

Solutions for Food, Beverage, and Agriculture

Ensuring consistent colour in consumables requires versatile, hygienic, and rapid testing tools.

  • ColorFlex L2: Perfect for food, beverages, and pet food, including powders, liquids, dairy, and sauces. It features a touchscreen with a live camera preview, measures both opaque and translucent samples, and runs onboard EasyMatch Essentials L2 without needing a separate PC.
  • Aeros: The ultimate choice for snacks, nuts, and non-homogenous textures. As a non-contact instrument with automatic height positioning, it requires minimal sample preparation, delivering results in about five seconds with 35 measurements per rotation.
  • SpectraTrend HT: Ideal for in-line process control for bread, nuts, and snack foods. It provides continuous non-contact monitoring to instantly flag off-colour batches, effectively closing the gap between the production line and the QC lab.
  • MiniScan EZ: A portable, handheld solution tailored for meats, poultry, fish, and produce. Available in directional 45°/0° and diffuse d/8° geometries, it allows you to measure products across multiple lines exactly the way your customers see them.

 

Solutions for Industrial, Pharmaceuticals, Plastics, and Research

For complex liquids, heavily regulated materials, and high-precision R&D, these models offer unparalleled data capture and spectral analysis capabilities.

  • Agera L2: Engineered for pharmaceuticals, plastics, recycled materials, packaging films, petrochemicals, and textiles. Strict colour control is critical in pharma for dosage identification and safety. The Agera L2 offers Certified Grade 'A' CIE D65 illumination with controlled UV, capturing colour and 60° gloss in one read alongside a dedicated Dark Performance Mode for low-reflectance materials.
  • Vista L2: Designed for beverages, oils, transparent liquids, and plastic preforms. It efficiently measures both colour and haze/NTU simultaneously in a single transmission read, operating PC-free.
  • UltraScan VIS: Built for measuring reflectance and transmission in solids and liquids. It captures reflectance, transmittance, and haze/NTU across a 360 nm to 780 nm wavelength range with a 10 nm optical resolution and automated UV calibration.
  • UltraScan PRO: The premier choice for high-precision research and QC for transparent and opaque materials. It covers the full CIE visible range plus NIR (350 nm to 1050 nm) with a 5 nm reporting interval and automated specular inclusion or exclusion.

Measure Quality, Maximise Profit

Ready to take the guesswork out of your quality control? The Graintec Scientific team is here to help you match the exact HunterLab instrument to your facility's unique workflow and compliance needs. Contact us today or schedule a demo.


 

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