Often companies in the industrial sector use balance scales to ensure that products meet weight specifications and adhere to safety standards. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Strainsert Company
West Conshohocken, PA | 610-825-3310Strainsert is a manufacturer of a variety of precision made scales, in addition to force sensing transducers, miniature load cells, pins & bolts. As a leading company who has served such industries as aerospace & marine, Strainsert will custom design & manufacture products to your exacting specifications and will provide the most responsive, accurate & efficient solutions for research.
Thompson Scale Company
Houston, TX | 713-932-9071Thompson Scale Company is a leading manufacturer of weighing systems and packaging machinery controls. We provide industrial scales like in-motion checkweighers. We also offer universal filler controllers, universal remote LED/LCD displays and filling machinery upgrades. Founded in 1972.
Koehler Scale, Inc.
Waukegan, IL | 888-245-9945Since 1959, Koehler Scale has been distributing industrial scales. In fact, we are one of the largest distributors of scales. Our service is unrivalled with 24-hour service, 7 days a week. If you need a non-standard scale, we are able to fabricate it as well. Come to us for all of your weighing needs.
Pennsylvania Scale Company
Lancaster, PA | 800-233-0473Pennsylvania Scale Company specializes in industrial scales such as counting scales, bench scales, weighing scales, floor scales, portable scales, airport-baggage scales and money-manager scales. With almost 100 years of experience, we provide quality products to various industries.
Ohaus Corporation
Parsippany, NJ | 800-672-7722As a scale manufacturer, OHAUS is a worldwide leader in the production of industrial scales and balance scales. Our line of industrial scales includes electronic scales, bench scales and counting scales. Our mass measurement tools are helpful in the education of students for concepts in math & science. Contact us soon and we will deliver to you reliable results.
Intercomp Company, Inc.
Medina, MN | 800-328-3336Intercomp is one of the world's largest manufacturers of portable scales for the industrial, material handling and transportation industries. Our major product lines include bench scales, floor scales, platform scales, industrial scales, weighing scales, axle scales and much more.
Balance Scale - PCE Americas, Inc.Many industrial and commercial operations require access to tools that provide information about the qualities of objects. This has been true as long as there have been markets and scientific experiments. Balance scales were among the first answers to the problem of object measurement. They involve a beam balanced over a fulcrum. At either end of the beam are plates on which objects can be rested and measured relative to each other. If an object with a known weight is placed on one plate and an object of unknown weight is placed on the other, the balance or unbalance of the beam will indicate the weight of the objects relative to each other.
Balance Scale - PCE Americas, Inc.Balance scales are widely employed in schools for the purposes of demonstrating the relationship and differences between weight and mass. They are sometimes also used in the jewelry industry and in other contexts, though the advent of more advanced, precise and more easily readable electronic scales have made balance scales all but obsolete in industrial and commercial use.
Despite balance scales' near obsolescence in most industrial and commercial operations, they are capable of producing some of the most accurate measurements out of all mass and weight measurement technologies. Scales do not directly measure mass; they measure weight, which is acceleration due to gravity. Mass is proportional to weight, though, which means that determining an object's weight can make things clear about its mass.
Other scale varieties, such as spring scales and counterweight scales, are subject to the gravitational pull wherever they are. Because the earth's gravitational field is variable depending on location, some scale varieties' readings can vary based on their location. This problem does not affect balance scales because they compare the mass of two objects, and mass is not affected by gravity. For this reason, balance scales are still used in the calibration of test weights and for other similar purposes.