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Best Practices For Calibration Test Weights

Rice Lake’s Metrology department has retained its world class reputation through its highly trained staff and adherence to stringent handling procedures–from receiving, to calibrating, to shipping. The information below from Rice Lake highlights the standard procedure that they use upon receipt of your test weights. Here you’ll also find the best practices that Rice Lake… Read More »

Is It Alright To Cut Load Cell Cable?

A customer recently asked us about cutting load cell cable because the cable was too long for his particular application.  The standard line of thinking is that you should not cut load cell cable because it may void the manufacturer’s warranty. Are there any recommendations for altering load cell cable that might be different than… Read More »

AWTX Launches Redesigned Stainless Steel ProDec Scale

Based on feedback from end-users and distributors, Avery Weigh-Tronix is pleased to announce the availability of a redesigned ProDec (DSLS) floor scale. The complete stainless steel structure of the ProDec now incorporates hermetically sealed, stainless steel Weigh Bars as standard. Ideal for the hygienic requirements of the Food and Chemical processing industries, the hermetically sealed… Read More »

MSI Crane Scales

MSI’s Challenger and Port-A-Weigh crane scales have been a staple of the MSI line for decades, popular in industries ranging from petro-chemical and aerospace to agriculture, marine, metals and more. Recently MSI announced that they’ve enhanced functionality of both models to allow use with the new MSI-8000 RF Remote Display. Adding MSI-8000 RF Remote Display… Read More »

Amazing What Some Folks Will Do Just To Make A Sale

We were told this week by one of our long time customers that he was “informed” by one of our local competitors that our company was now owned by someone else. In essence this competitor was trying to place some doubt in the customers mind. That is the second time in the past few months… Read More »

New DIN Rail Weight Transmitter with PLC Connectivity

There’s all kind of cliche’s that come to mind with the new Cardinal 201 like good things come in small packages. That is definitely the case for this new item from Cardinal Scale. The Cardinal Scale model 201 weight transmitter is a fast, accurate instrument for process control-based static and dynamic weighing applications. The 201… Read More »

New ARMOR® Series Truck Scales

Cardinal Scale Manufacturing recently announced a new “brand name” for its popular line of EPR truck scales. With our many popular name-brand products, such as the GUARDIAN® hydraulic scales, STORM indicators, and SnapStream wireless applications, it was time to give a brand name to the most popular Cardinal heavy capacity product of all. As the… Read More »