As the scrap metal industry relies heavily on accurate weighing to determine material pricing – with many bulk metals bought and sold by the pound – customers who sell scrap metal rely on their buyers to deliver a fair price for all materials purchased. With 100 years of experience, Calbag Metals based in Portland, Oregon, […]

Trucks are processed eight times faster with the installation of a new weighbridge control system installed at Ennstone Johnston’s Cloud Hill (UK) site. Ennstone Johnston, one of the UK’s largest producers of aggregates, asphalt and ready-mix concrete, needed to increase the number of trucks in and out of their site at Cloud Hill and reduce […]

When Polk County Recycling Center in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, USA decided to install a truck scale/weighbridge to weigh recyclable materials, they determined that the scale would be shared with the Polk County Highway Department. The Highway Department needed this scale to monitor the inventory and usage of road materials, stored in a road salt , stored […]

After a series of fires in the Angeles National Forest, near Los Angeles, Calif., the San Gabriel Reservoir became home to 6.1 million cubic yards of forest fire sediment, reducing the reservoir’s capacity by 40 percent. The San Gabriel Reservoir is essential to Los Angeles citizens, as the reservoir creates electricity, delivers fresh water, and […]

A weighing system from Avery Weigh-Tronix has helped improve production efficiency and quality for Glen Moray’s Scotch whisky distillery. It measures batches of malted barley to an accuracy of 99 percent and provides traceable data to monitor production and to meet the requirements of Customs and Excise. In common with all scotch whiskys only three […]

At its liquid products transfer site in Portland, Oregon, Peninsula Terminal Company’s Transload Services Division receives tanker railcars transporting chemicals for the paper and fuel industries. The company’s customers rely upon Peninsula Terminal to help them transfer chemical loads from railcars to the customers’ tanker trucks and track the amount of chemicals offloaded. To provide […]

With over 33 years of experience in integration of batching and bagging systems for the feed and grain industries, Jorge E. Jaramillo & Cia. S.A.S prides itself on delivering quality solutions to its customers. As a sole contractor for all weighing needs of a new feed plant with a monthly capacity of 40,000 metric tons, the […]

During 2014, Noah’s Ark Zoo Farm in Bristol, UK, celebrated the arrival of two very special new inhabitants. Already home to a vast array of species, the zoo has welcomed Buta and Janu – two magnificent African elephants – to their impressive menagerie. To help manage the health of these gentle giants, the zoo has installed […]