System for use in producing a powder coating composition

A system for use in fabricating a colored powder coating composition comprising:

• an electronic fabricator controller having a fabricator processor, a fabricator memory, and a fabricator bus;
• a color sensor coupled to said fabricator controller;
• a filament feeder comprised of a filament driver coupled to said fabricator controller;
• a filament mixer coupled to said fabricator controller;
• said filament mixer having a filament inlet joined through an inlet channel in a mixing chamber housing to an interior mixing chamber;
• said mixing chamber housing having a heating element and having an extrudate channel between said interior mixing chamber and a nozzle opening;
• a mixing mechanism within said mixing chamber;
• at least one operating instruction in a memory location accessible to said fabricator processor to determine the data representation of a color value acquired from said color sensor;
• at least one operating instruction in a memory location accessible to said fabricator processor to determine from said data representation of a color value an input formulation of filaments for forming a powder coating composition having a color substantially the same as said color value acquired from said color sensor;
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• at least one operating instruction in a memory location accessible to said fabricator processor to operate the filament feeder and the filament mixer in accordance with said input formulation.