Industry

European weighing instruments manufacturers, including members of CECIP, represent over 50% of the worldwide trade volume. There are ca. 700 companies active in the production of weighing instruments (many of them being partly or even over 50% active on related fields as well). The weighing industry in total employs around 50.000 people and has a turnover of about 3 billion Euros.

There is a wide variety of weighing instruments that are produced by the industry. These range from weighbridges and supermarket scales to high-precision scales in laboratories. Reliable and high-quality weighing instruments improve processes and equipment in various ways.

Weighing instruments help consumers, researchers and companies in, for instance:

• Protecting consumer rights via trustworthy and reliable supermarket scales.
• Helping doctors providing the right medical care.
• Supporting advanced research via high-precision scales.
• Increasing productivity in the process industry by enabling further atomisation.
• Making agriculture more sustainable by allowing agriculture machinery to work more precisely.
• Producing safe and high quality food products.
• Ensuring fair business-to-business trade via accurate truckscales and bulkscales.