Category Archives: General

Save Thousands of Dollars By Just Having Your Truck Scale Calibrated Regularly

Over time, truck scale accuracy can change due to a variety of issues, mostly usage and wear and tear. When you’re looking at a truck scale, accuracy is very important to your business because the value of the product you are transporting affects your bottom line and correlates to the weight you see displayed on the… Read More: Save Thousands of Dollars By Just Having Your Truck Scale… »

Avery Weigh-Tronix BSQ Bench Scale Base Frequently Asked Questions

The Avery Weigh-Tronix BSQ is a highly accurate digital bench base with over 1 billion internal counts and a readability of over 3.5 million divisions (unapproved). In practice, this means that the Avery Weigh-Tronix BSQ scale platform can detect even the tiniest of weight changes with astounding precision. Featuring the very latest state of the… Read More: Avery Weigh-Tronix BSQ Bench Scale Base Frequently Asked Questions »

Cardinal Scale’s Digital Fill Control Improves Efficiency for Cherry Packing

In preparation for the busy summer harvest season, fruit distributors find tremendous value in equipment improvements and workflow efficiency. Recently, an authorized Cardinal Scale dealer outfitted a cherry packing shed in California with an upgraded packing system. This operation utilizes a conveyor belt system to transport sorted cherries to be packaged using Cardinal Scale static… Read More: Cardinal Scale’s Digital Fill Control Improves Efficiency for Cherry Packing »

Weighing Solutions for New SOLAS Requirements

Starting July 1, 2016 the SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Treaty will require all ISO containers to have a verifiable gross mass entered into the ship’s manifest prior to loading. This international treaty amendment comes in the wake of several at-sea disasters resulting from overweight and improperly balanced containers; impacting the loading of all… Read More: Weighing Solutions for New SOLAS Requirements »

Intercomp HH400 Handheld Indicator Now Available

Intercomp Scales continues its history of continuous innovation and product improvement with the latest update to their HH400™ Handheld Indicator. INTERCOMP HH400 now available Previously known as the TL-RFX™ Indicator, it was the go-to choice for Intercomp’s TL™ Series Tension Link Scales. Now with added features such as output to RFX™ enabled wireless printers, memory… Read More: Intercomp HH400 Handheld Indicator Now Available »

Load Cell Kit For Weighing Tanks and Vessels

Cardinal Scale Manufacturing has a wide variety of Made in America load cell kits which allow you transform almost any vessel or platform into an integrated weighing system. A few simple things need to be considered when choosing the right system. We’ll also discuss the proper installation and setup methods to use. Whether utilizing beam,… Read More: Load Cell Kit For Weighing Tanks and Vessels »

Detecto D Series Price Computing Scales Now Have Serial Port & Label Printer Available

One of the questions we are asked quite often is “can I print labels with my basic price computing scale”? The answer used to be no.  Then, the answer was no, or well, yes…. but it will be very expensive and difficult. Then, we started getting a few different entry level retail scales that would… Read More: Detecto D Series Price Computing Scales Now Have Serial Port… »