Master Colour Communication
We offer unique and proven expertise based on thousands of colour standards for the world’s most demanding industrial applications and markets.
Accelerate your design with NCS Creative Studio
Gain exclusive access to our cutting-edge lab and technical teams. By working with our professional equipment, you can achieve your desired colour faster than ever before. What used to take several months can now take as little as one or two days. Our expertise ensures that your new colour is perfectly optimised, ready for seamless integration into your manufacturing process.
With a legacy of revolutionising colour communication since 1979, we know the complexity of colour management throughout manufacturing processes and product design. We assist the colour decision processes of some of the most renowned companies in the world.
Volvo cars at NCS Creative Studio
Developing Volvo Cars’ interior colours at NCS Colour has enabled them to make improvements from idea to delivery, making them colour masters of their global supply chain. Inspiring workshops with the design team has prompted more creative freedom to explore ideas and colour concepts, and to match colours with both existing parts and future designs.
NCS Industrial Solutions
Develop colours with definition
Partner with our colour experts and technicians to distinctly define your colours and acceptable tolerances for diverse materials. We create customised colour samples to match the right colour, gloss, effect or surface structure specifications.
Tailor colour development
Provide coated paper samples for your specified colour, gloss, effects and surfaces to guarantee colour standards for industrial production and branding.
Workshop to develop colours
Develop your unique colours through collaborative workshops with our lab and colour development experts and your stakeholders. We pinpoint the precise colour with faster feedback while guaranteeing production material viability.
Custom tolerance tools
Use a streamlined approach to colour specifications. Leverage a personalised visual tool featuring the target colour alongside samples showcasing the maximum allowable deviation in various directions. This tool is invaluable for accurate visual colour assessments, eliminating the need for measurements.
Calibrate for colours
Produce custom colours for precise instrument calibration targets, including camera, white vision and machine vision imaging.
Manage colours with control
Controlling your colour production can be expensive, time-consuming and can span across an extensive supplier network. That’s where colour management and communication can make all the difference.
Develop your colour management skills in a workshop
Together with our colour experts, you can refine your in-house colour management skills to streamline colour specifications, work with suppliers and ensure quality control.
Optimise colour management services
Prevent production quality issues and save costs with our top-tier colour master program designed for your suppliers. By producing primary masters, we guarantee precise colour perception. Globally certified colour masters are distributed throughout your supply chain, ensuring consistent and accurate colour results.
Tailor industrial colour samples
Create customised colour samples to match your exact specifications for colour, gloss, effect or surface structure. Or define colour masters in diverse materials like plastics, overlays or powder-coated surfaces.
Certify colour samples
Achieve effortless colour matching and quality control with NCS Certified colour samples. Available for all NCS 2050 Standard Colours, each sample has a measurement certificate indicating the offset CIE L*a*b* colour difference from the NCS Primary master.
Consult with our colour experts
We have helped hundreds of companies transform their colour knowledge. As your dedicated colour partner, our curated services are tailored to realise your colour goals.
Deepen your colour know-how
We offer tailored education grounded in the latest colourimetry insights to address industrial colour challenges effectively.
Convert colours
Convert colours to and from NCS and other systems in accurate visual and instrument-based translations.
Measure colours with precision
NCS provides objective, accurate colour measurements. The NCS Reference Lab can measure production samples for precise NCS codes, NCS closest standard and other colourimetric values.
Analyse and audit quality
Ensure the highest quality colour level with our expertise, advanced equipment and NCS Reference Lab for professional colour assessments.
NCS Reference Lab
Our colour management guarantees you meet the highest quality standards in colour accuracy, stability and security.
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Streamlined Digital Colour Communication
Introducing CAPQ, our cloud-based solution that optimises colour management. Across global supply chains, CAPQ makes quality assurance, communication and approvals seamless with a user-friendly digital platform.
Built on a sophisticated Profiling Engine, CAPQ improves Inter-Instrument Agreement as low as <0.1 dE00 (on an average based on actual production samples). This ensures unparalleled precision in digital colour communication, regardless of instrument brands and models across your fleet.
On-demand colour standards
Access stable and secure cloud-stored colour standards, available digitally on demand. Targeted accessibility for users saves administrative and logistics costs.
Efficient communication
Optimise client-supplier connections with our colour management platform.
Consistent quality
Featuring traceable digital colour standards and well-defined tolerances on the platform ensures consistent high quality and minimizes risks and total cost of ownership.
Informed decision-making
Insights captured in the platform enable data-driven decisions and early quality control, saving costs and iterations.
CAPQ Modules: Ensure colour excellence
Colour vault
Store colour standard details: spectral curves, gloss, material specifications and tolerance definitions.
Quality assurance
Verify the quality of colour production in any light source, observer and tolerance type.
Colour distribution
Distribute standards uniquely profiled to any spectrophotometer for internal and external teams.
Instrument management
Monitor instrument fleet accuracy, irrespective of make, model or QC software.
