Author: Ben Prayel

By the Scales and Balances Product Team Over the past eight months, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes improving our product offering and enhancing how our customers interact with our website. This ongoing transformation reflects our commitment to staying at the forefront of the weighing industry and better serving professionals across a wide… Continue reading New Product Launches & Site Upgrades: Scales and Balances Moves into Application-Based Weighing

A moisture balance, also known as a moisture analyser, is a tool used in industries to assess the moisture percentage of a particular product or sample. Used in industries like food processing and manufacturing, moisture analysers are suitable for determining moisture content in a range of products, including food, straw, and grain. Some of the… Continue reading Understanding Moisture Balances: Applications and Benefits

What are test/calibration weights? Test weights are used to check weighing instruments and establish whether you need to calibrate your scales. If you regularly use scales in an industry environment, such as pharmaceuticals, retail, or production, you’ll benefit from maintaining accuracy with the help of calibration weights. These weights are available in a variety of… Continue reading Test Weights Explained: Your Ultimate Guide

A precision balance is a highly accurate scale with precise readability increments. These balances are typically used in labs and manufacturing and work best with small-to-medium sized samples. Precision balances offer greater sensitivity than standard digital scales, making them ideal for measuring weights up to 0.001g or 1mg. Precision balances are super-accurate and can be… Continue reading Why Precision Balances Are Essential for Laboratory and Industrial Applications

You can purchase a huge range of industrial scales from Scales and Balances, ranging from industry-compliant models to affordable bench scales. Whether you work in pharmaceuticals, retail, or food and beverage, Scales and Balances is huge to plenty of scales of different sizes, capacities, and readability. To find the best scale for you, assess your… Continue reading Where to Buy the Best Industrial Scales?

While industrial weighing scales are paramount in laboratories and chemical environments, their importance in the production of food and beverages shouldn’t be overlooked. Industry-compliant weighing scales help reduce costs, ensure accuracy, and increase efficiency on the production line. Industry events such as IFE, Foodex and PPMA highlight recent and future trends as well as technological… Continue reading The Role of Industrial Weighing Scales in the Food and Beverage Industry

Buying a industrial scale for your workplace allows you to make accurate and precise measurements that ensure fair pricing in retail environments and precision in spaces such as labs. Big or small, any type of business can suffer as a result of a poorly performing scale, so procuring the right product first-time is a must.… Continue reading A Purchaser’s Guide to Buying a industrial Scale/Balance

ATEX-certified scales are safe for use in hazardous or potentially explosive environments. These robust scales are ideal for use in industries such as chemicals, pharmaceuticals, gas and oil, and food and beverage. ATEX certification guarantees that scales meet strict safety standards, reducing the chance of ignition from static electricity, overheating, or sparks. In certain industries,… Continue reading ATEX Scales: Ensure your Safety in Hazardous Environments

Electronic balances are essential for industries such as retail, food and beverage, and pharmaceuticals. If you’re buying or already own an electronic balance, don’t make these common mistakes, including forgetting to calibrate, ignoring its environment, using the wrong technique, neglecting cleaning, or overlooking power supply issues.  If you find yourself regularly having to troubleshoot your… Continue reading 5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Using an Electronic Balance

Purchasing trade-approved scales ensures legal compliance for buying and selling by weight. Although trade-approved scales can be more accurate, over time scales can become uncalibrated as a result of wear and tear, damage, or even battery issues. To test the accuracy of your scales, either use a simple test by weighing two options and checking… Continue reading How to Test Accuracy or Calibration Drift on Trade Approved Scales