Chemical & Petrochemical

The cost for hand-harvesting operations has steadily increased over the years without regard to the
delivered-in price that growers receive. Growers …

Customer was having problems with kits coming up short on parts in the sealed boxes. The kit is made up …

Fairbanks has a solid and successful track record in tank weighing assemblies, and the word is spreading. Many industrial processes need and …

Maintenance practices don’t immediately show profit or savings but good practices prevent short and long-term expenses. Here is the good …

You are not looking for loose change when you check the load cell pockets to compare truck scales.  Instead, you’re …

In 2001, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) released a study that calculated the cost of
corrosion to the United States …

A UK manufacturer of denture cement / denture adhesive uses the Lloyd LR Plus test machine to test new formulations …

Multiple custom floor scales can be ordered in any quantity. From a single request to larger quantities, we can ensure each …

Batching systems, whether manual or automated, are everywhere. Compounding liquid solutions or blending powdered components into a final mixture is …

Materials characterization specialists at Exeter Advanced Technologies used the EZ20 test machine to measure the behavior of paint coating.
Introduction
The worst-case …

The Customer – Ashland Chemical company
The Challenge – Facility required safe drum scales for industrial use.
The Solution – B-TEK Scales …

It is not uncommon to find our competitors focusing the sales dialog on the virtues of a steel deck truck scale. …

• 3,000 deaths
• 1 in every 6 Americans get sick (that’s 48 million people)
• 128,000 hospitalizations
These yearly estimates are provided …

Force measurement is used in many differing types of applications and may be accomplished with devices utilizing differing technologies. Typical …

In the food production industry, product contamination by microorganisms such as bacteria or fungi presents a potential and omnipotent risk. It is …

What is IP69K? Is this a concern for me? If so, how can I be
protected?

In the past force measurement generally meant obtaining a peak load measurement on a product, part or material to verify …

A leading medical manufacturer has an R&D location that is made up of numerous labs containing a variety of balances, …

During a measurement, weight acts on the load cell’s body and causes elastic deformation.  The body has some spring constant. This …

The Clients – Warehouses, manufacturing facilities and all customers with portability needs
The Challenge – To make a drum scale mobile with …

Texas oil field companies use the Intercomp TL8500 Tension Link Dynamometers to measure the torquing force. As this equipment is serviced …

By combining the TA1 texture analyzer with our grips and fixtures for packaging testing you can perform tests such as …

Along America’s Gulf Coast, from Gulf Shores, Ala., to Layfayette, La., you will find locations for regional supermarket chain, Rouses Food Market. From …

Do not be fooled by service companies selling scale maintenance agreements that lack focus on calibration. Calibration is the most …

When selecting a supplier to fulfill your testing, calibration or measurement needs, you need to be sure that they can …

Single column force testers today represent the largest single market segment of the force testing marketplace for a number of …

Many manufacturing facilities currently have load cells installed in tank systems that are no longer operational. Most of the times …

In just about any application, a concrete deck truck scale is a better long-term solution than a steel deck scale. When …

Businesses are turning to the Internet for a wide variety of purchases, including scales. Although convenient and sometimes less expensive, …

Open-end service is the most typical type of service that is provided in the industrial weighing service industry. It is …

How do you weigh product accurately in a portable tank, vessel or reactor? With a specially designed  caster load cell!
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Tilcon owns and operates dozens of quarries, asphalt and recycling plants, water terminals, and highway construction divisions, in New York …

This chapter states the requirements for balances used for materials that must be accurately weighed (see General Notices, 8.20). Unless …