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Platform Scales

Platform scales are essential for a wide range of industries that need to weigh heavy or bulk items efficiently and accurately. Their robust design, ease of use, and ability to handle large capacities make them a popular choice.

Applications of Platform Scales:

  1. Logistics : Used to weigh pallets, boxes, and bulk materials, ensuring proper load distribution for transport and meeting shipping weight requirements.

  2. Manufacturing Industries: Used for weighing raw materials, products, or components in a manufacturing environment, helping ensure that production processes follow strict weight standards.

  3. Agriculture: In farming, they are used to weigh large quantities of crops, livestock, or feed.

  4. Retail: Retailers & wholesalers use to weigh bulk goods, such as produce, in grocery stores or for distribution.

  5. Medical: Platform scales with lower weight capacities sometimes used to weigh patients or animals in veterinary settings.

  6. Food Production: In the food industry, platform scales are used to weigh ingredients or packaged food items, ensuring portion control and adherence to packaging regulations.

Optimise your operations with platform scales from Inscale Scales. Designed for weighing palletised goods, our scales offer versatility and convenience. Explore our range: of IP68 waterproof models, trade approved models, and various capcity to streamline your weighing processes.

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  • Adam PT Platform Scale & GK Indicator - Inscale Scales
    Adam PT Platform Scale & GK Indicator - Inscale Scales

    Adam PT Platform Scale & GK Indicator

    £905.00 - £1,025.00
    £905.00 - £1,025.00
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    What is the Adam PT Platform Scale & GK Indicator? The PT is a tough, mild steel platform scale with capacities up to 3 tonnes and sizes from 1...

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    £905.00 - £1,025.00
    £905.00 - £1,025.00
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  • Kern BFB Floor Platform Scale - Inscale Scales

    Kern BFB Floor Platform Scale

    £1,640.00 - £3,060.00
    £1,640.00 - £3,060.00
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    What is the Kern BFB Platform Scales? The Kern BFB Platform Scale is a durable and robust platform scale with and IP67 rating for protection from ...

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    £1,640.00 - £3,060.00
    £1,640.00 - £3,060.00
    £1,640.00 - £3,060.00
    £1,640.00
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  • Kern BID Approved Floor Platform Scale - Inscale Scales

    Kern BID Approved Floor Platform Scale

    £1,490.00 - £2,315.00
    £1,490.00 - £2,315.00
    £1,490.00 - £2,315.00
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    What is the Kern BID Approved Platform Scale? The BID Approved Platform Scale from Kern is a tough, IP67 rated weighing platform that is perfect fo...

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    £1,490.00 - £2,315.00
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What is a platform scale?

A platform scale is a weighing scale with a larger surface, typically, for weighing palletised goods. Platform scales are usually situated on the floor, or may be sunken into a pit to make them flush with the ground or floor.

The weight indicator is separate from the platform, enabling the indicator to stand to one side out of the way, mounted on the wall, benchtop, or on a pillar.

Large weighing platforms such as Adam Equipment's PT platform can be combined with steel ramps for easily transferring barrels, rolling cages and pallets (with the use of a mobile forklift) on and off the scale's weighing platform without the need for heavy lifting. Scales such as the PTM include sturdy handles that allow operators to carry the platform between locations.

Pit-mounted platform scales enable pallet or fork lift trucks to stand on them with the items being weighed, as long as the capacity of the platform permits this. Warehouse operatives can also weigh pallets of products in units using a platform scale with a check-counting indicator without the need to unpack and weigh products individually.

Choose from a wide range of platform scale sizes and variations, including heavy-duty, mild steel platforms with up to 3000kg capacities, IP-rated stainless steel platform scale varieties with pillar assembly, and durable, lightweight weigh beams that support other platforms and cages.

Platform scale models marked with a black 'M' are trade approved for selling goods by weight.

How do platform scales work?

Platform scales broadly come in two types, first is a single cell base where a load cell is mounted between two frames and the load is applied to one side of the cell. This can sometimes be referred to as a cantilever type. The other type is basically a load cell mounted in each corner of the platform base and the weight applied is measured by the sum of the load cells. There are advantages and disadvantages with each method, but cost has an impact on the designs.

Which platform scale would you recommend for working with machinery?

The type of platform scale you should use will depend on a couple of things:

  • The size and weight of the items to be weighed.
  • The amount of surrounding space.
  • Which weighing application you need.

If you work in a shipping warehouse and weigh large machinery items by the crate load, you will need a larger platform scale with checkweighing features, such as the Adam PT combined with a GK indcator.. A suitable checkweighing platform scale will ensure the weight of each crate is consistent and meets the pre-set weight value before despatch.