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Analytical Balances

Analytical balances are highly sensitive laboratory instruments designed for precise mass measurement in controlled environments. These sophisticated scales typically offer readability to 0.1mg (0.0001g) and feature draft shields to protect against air currents that could affect readings.

Essential for pharmaceutical, chemical, and research applications where accuracy is critical, analytical balances incorporate advanced weighing technology and often include features like internal calibration, data logging capabilities, and connectivity options for seamless integration with laboratory information systems.

Bench Scales

Certified Scale’s bench scales provide reliable weighing solutions for industrial, commercial, and laboratory applications where portability and versatility are important. These compact yet robust scales are designed to fit on workbenches, countertops, or tables while delivering accurate measurements for a wide range of materials.

Our bench scales often feature stainless steel construction for easy cleaning and durability in demanding environments, making them ideal for food processing, manufacturing, and quality control applications.

Checkweighers

Checkweighing scales are specialized weighing systems designed to verify that products meet predetermined weight specifications during production or packaging processes. These automated scales quickly sort items into accept, underweight, or overweight categories, helping manufacturers maintain quality control and comply with regulatory requirements.

Checkweighers increase efficiency by identifying weight discrepancies in real-time, reducing waste and ensuring consistent product quality while operating at high speeds to keep pace with production lines.

Counting Scales

Counting scales can help you streamline your inventory management and parts counting by determining quantity based on the individual weight of each part. These scales sample a known quantity of items to establish an average piece weight, then calculate total quantities automatically.

Perfect for warehouse operations, manufacturing environments, and retail applications, counting scales eliminate the time-consuming process of manual counting while providing accurate results for small parts, components, and bulk items.

Digital Crane Scales

Also known as hanging scales, crane scales provide portable weighing solutions for lifting and material handling applications. These heavy-duty scales suspend between lifting equipment and loads, allowing operators to weigh materials during transport or positioning.

Crane scales feature robust construction, wireless remote displays for safe operation, and various capacity options to accommodate different load requirements in construction, shipping, and manufacturing operations.

Dimensioners

Dimensioners combine weighing and measuring capabilities to capture both weight and dimensional data of packages and objects. These advanced systems use laser, ultrasonic, or camera technology to automatically measure length, width, height, and weight simultaneously.

Essential for shipping and logistics operations, dimensioners help calculate accurate shipping costs and optimize packaging efficiency to speed up the processing of outbound shipments.

Dynamometers/Tension Meters

Dynamometers and tension meters measure force, tension, and torque in various applications from testing material strength to calibrating equipment. These precision instruments provide critical data for quality assurance, safety testing, and engineering applications.

Whether measuring the pulling force of cables, testing spring tension, or verifying the torque of fasteners, these devices ensure that components meet specifications and safety standards in manufacturing, construction, and maintenance operations.

Hanging Scales

The hanging scale offers users a convenient portable weighing for applications where traditional platform scales aren’t practical. These suspended scales feature hook or attachment points for lifting and weighing items simultaneously, making them ideal for weighing fish, game, luggage, or materials in field conditions.

Available in mechanical and digital versions, hanging scales provide reliable measurements in outdoor environments, retail settings, and industrial applications where mobility and ease of use are priorities.

Industrial Balances

Industrial balances are engineered for demanding manufacturing and production environments where durability and accuracy are essential. These heavy-duty instruments withstand harsh conditions including vibration, temperature fluctuations, and exposure to dust or moisture while maintaining measurement integrity.

Designed for continuous operation, industrial balances often feature robust construction, large weighing platforms, and advanced connectivity options to integrate with manufacturing execution systems and quality management programs.

Lift Truck/Pallet Scales

Our lift truck and pallet scales integrate weighing capabilities into material handling equipment, allowing operators to weigh loads during normal lifting and transport operations. These scales eliminate the need for separate weighing stations, improving efficiency and workflow in warehouses and distribution centers.

By providing weight information in real-time, these systems help prevent overloading, optimize shipping costs, and maintain accurate inventory records while streamlining material handling processes.

Mechanical Scales/Balances

Mechanical scales and balances operate without electrical power, using spring mechanisms, lever systems, or counterweight principles to measure weight. These reliable instruments provide consistent performance in environments where electricity isn’t available or where electronic equipment might be affected by electromagnetic interference.

Mechanical scales require minimal maintenance, offer long service life, and remain functional in extreme conditions, making them valuable for outdoor applications, remote locations, and backup weighing needs.

Medical/Health Scales

If you’re in the medical and healthcare industry, you will need to invest in medical/health scales. This weighing equipment allows for highly precise including patient monitoring, medication preparation, and clinical research.

These scales meet strict accuracy standards and often feature specialized functions like BMI calculation, memory storage, and data connectivity for electronic health records. Whether for hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, or home healthcare, medical scales provide the accuracy and reliability required for patient care and treatment monitoring.

Micro Balances

Micro balances represent the pinnacle of weighing precision, capable of measuring minute quantities with readabilities as fine as 0.001mg (0.000001g). These ultra-sensitive instruments are essential for applications requiring the highest level of accuracy, such as pharmaceutical analysis, materials science research, and forensic investigations.

Micro balances incorporate advanced vibration isolation, environmental controls, and sophisticated electronics to achieve exceptional stability and repeatability in controlled laboratory environments.

Precision/Toploader Balances

Precision balances, also known as toploader balances, offer high accuracy weighing for laboratory and industrial applications requiring readabilities between 1mg and 100mg.

These versatile instruments provide an optimal balance of precision, capacity, and ease of use, making them suitable for general laboratory work, quality control testing, and educational applications. With user-friendly interfaces and reliable performance, precision balances serve as the workhorse instruments in many analytical and research environments.

Industrial Floor Scales

Industrial floor scales provide heavy-duty weighing solutions for large, bulky items and high-capacity applications in manufacturing, shipping, and warehouse operations. These robust platforms can accommodate pallets, drums, machinery, and other oversized loads while delivering accurate weight measurements.

Built to withstand constant use and harsh industrial conditions, floor scales often feature low-profile designs for easy loading, wireless indicators for remote monitoring, and various platform sizes to meet specific application requirements.

Moisture Analyzers

Moisture analyzers combine precise weighing with controlled heating to determine moisture content in materials quickly and accurately. These specialized instruments heat samples while continuously monitoring weight loss, calculating moisture percentage in real-time.

Essential for quality control in food processing, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and agriculture, moisture analyzers eliminate the time-consuming process of oven drying while providing reliable results for process control and regulatory compliance.

Parcel/Shipping Scales

Parcel and shipping scales are designed specifically for packaging and logistics operations, providing accurate weight measurements for calculating shipping costs and ensuring compliance with carrier restrictions. These scales often feature large platforms to accommodate various package sizes, integration capabilities with shipping software, and user-friendly interfaces for high-volume operations.

Whether for small businesses or large distribution centers, shipping scales streamline the fulfillment process while helping control shipping expenses.

Portable/Compact Scales

Portable and compact scales offer weighing solutions where space is limited or mobility is required. These lightweight, battery-powered instruments provide accurate measurements in field conditions, temporary locations, or cramped workspaces.

Despite their small size, portable scales maintain measurement accuracy and often include features like data logging, wireless connectivity, and protective carrying cases, making them ideal for field research, mobile services, and applications requiring frequent relocation.

Portable Vehicle Scales

Portable vehicle scales provide flexible weighing solutions for trucks, trailers, and other vehicles without requiring permanent installation. These modular systems can be transported to different locations and set up quickly to verify vehicle weights, ensure legal compliance, and optimize loading operations.

Ideal for construction sites, mining operations, and temporary checkpoints, portable vehicle scales offer the accuracy of permanent installations with the flexibility to move as operational needs change.

Retail Scales

Retail scales are designed for commercial applications in grocery stores, delis, butcher shops, and farmers markets where products are sold by weight. These customer-facing scales often feature easy-to-read displays, preset product keys for common items, and integration with point-of-sale systems for seamless transactions.

Built to meet legal-for-trade requirements, retail scales ensure accurate pricing while providing the durability and reliability needed for high-volume commercial use.

Miscellaneous Scales

Our miscellaneous scales category includes specialized instruments for unique applications, such as pipette leak testers for laboratory equipment validation, rheometers for measuring material flow properties, and viscometers for determining fluid viscosity.

These precision instruments serve specific industries and applications where standard weighing equipment cannot provide the required measurements. Each instrument is designed to meet exact specifications for its intended application, ensuring accurate results in specialized testing and quality control environments.

NTEP Approved Scales

NTEP (National Type Evaluation Program) approved scales meet rigorous standards for accuracy and reliability in commercial weighing applications. These certified instruments have undergone extensive testing to ensure they comply with National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements for legal-for-trade use. Please browse all our NTEP approved scales here.

NTEP approval is essential for applications involving buying and selling by weight, providing assurance that the scale will deliver consistent, legally defensible measurements in commercial transactions.

Limited Time Offers

Certified Scale sometimes runs discounts on our scales and balances. Our limited-time offers provide exceptional value on top-quality weighing equipment from leading manufacturers. Contact our sales team to learn about current discounts, package deals, and seasonal promotions that can help you save on your weighing equipment investment.

Your Trusted Source for Scales & Balances Since 1969

Proudly serving Wisconsin since 1969 from our Menomonee Falls headquarters and expanding in 2000 with our Fox Cities location, we deliver prompt and expert solutions for all your weighing needs. As an independent distributor of premium weighing and process control equipment, we have the flexibility to offer diverse product lines that best match our customers’ specific requirements.

Certified Scale earned the distinction of being Wisconsin’s first calibration laboratory exclusively dedicated to weighing devices to achieve ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation through A2LA, with our initial certification in 1999 and maintaining this standard continuously to the present day. Questions on your scales and analytical balances? Our team can assist! Just give us a call at (800) 455-9107.