Author: Ben Prayel

Laboratory balances must be accurate and precise since poor readings can throw off the results of experiments. The most common laboratory balance types are precision, analytical, semi-micro, and micro. To ensure accuracy in your lab balances, buy from a reputable supplier, opt for a trade-approved model, and calibrate regularly.  If you work in a laboratory… Continue reading Laboratory Balances: Your FAQs, Answered

Introduction: While all scales for retail must be trade-approved, there are different types, sizes, and capacities. To choose the right type of scales for your retail store, you’ll need to understand the advantages of each one, from electronic scales to label-printing scales, floor scales, and more.  Retail requires accurate weights, whether it’s weighing your parcels… Continue reading Retail Scales: What are the Best Scales for Retail Environments?

  Introduction: While industrial weighing scales are obvious in industries such as healthcare and laboratories, did you know they’re actually commonly used in almost every sector? Industries such as eCommerce, electronics, food and beverage, agriculture, shipping, and waste management rely heavily on the use of scales to ensure accuracy, quality control, and efficiency.  Industries such… Continue reading Which Unexpected Industries Rely on Industrial Weighing Scales?

What is a Trade Approved Scale or Balance? A trade approved scale or balance is essential for ensuring accurate transactions when selling goods by weight. This guarantees that both vendor and customer receive a fair deal. In the UK, one of the more commonly applicable sections for Trade approval is ‘the determination of mass for… Continue reading Trade Approved Scales and Balances

Our customers often call to find out why their high accuracy balance is not giving the results they expected. Often environmental factors such as, wind, vibrations or even atmospheric pressures can skew results or cause the balance to bounce between a result (not settle). Sometimes though, the simple fix is to properly ‘Zero’ and ‘Tare’… Continue reading Zero and Tare, what’s the difference?