Monthly Archives: January 2009

Water Treatment Facilities Utilize Industrial Scales

Municipalities provide large quantities of potable water for their residents and industries. Many of them also provide treatment for sewage and other waste water. The facilities for providing these services include a significant amount of equipment, including pumps, valves, aerators, tanks, screens, filters, and a variety of other types. Chemical treatment also plays a very [...]
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Custom Designed Industrial Blenders

Many types of products are manufactured by blending together a number of different ingredients. Each ingredient may be in a different type of condition, such as powders, pellets, liquids, or others. Other than liquids, it is very difficult to meter out the correct amount of each ingredient by volume, because its volume may be affected [...]
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Pig Sorters Increase Farm Efficiency

Historically, the methods used for raising animals on a farm were not too organized. Animals could be let out to pasture at the beginning of a season, and then collected a number of months later. Pigs could simply roam at will, often taking care of any garbage problem at the same time. Modern farms have [...]
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Animal Scales help Veterinarians

It is not an easy task for a veterinarian to determine the proper dosage of medication for an animal. Whereas there may be a rule of thumb for a doctor to prescribe medication for humans, there is a much wider variance of size and weight for animals. For this reason, many pet clinics obtain animal [...]
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Recycling Efforts Aided by Industrial Scales

As natural resources become more limited and more expensive, it has become more important than ever to implement recycling plans. Many municipalities have either begun such programs, or enhanced already existing efforts. Industrial operations have discovered that they can recover funds from materials that have previously been placed into the waste stream. As an added [...]
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Scale Data Collection

It is often just as important to keep a record of a weight measurement as it is to do the measurement in the first place. Industrial scales are used to obtain precise weight data. A bench scale may measure the amount of material being automatically filled into a container. This operation may continue for many [...]
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