Legal for trade scales are required to ensure fairness to both buyer and seller, and they are sealed at the point of manufacture to pass audits by applicable regulatory bodies.

Scales or Balances calibrated in a factory in China, Taiwan, Japan, Europe, may not read 100% accurately in the UK due to differences in local gravitational pull, shipping bumps, and temperature changes. Gravity varies slightly across the Earth, meaning precision or trade-approved scales should always be recalibrated for their final location. 

Homeworkers or small business start ups should also note that if packaging  for consumers you should be using and approved for trade machine.

Trade Approved scales are freshly prepared  to meet UK standards and  2016 weights and measures regulations.

We regard Trade approved scales as custom products and have factory fitted components specific to each unit to meet UK legislation and sealed to UK weights and measures standards.

Selecting trade approved scales is the easy bit but carries with it an onus on the user to make sure you have the following:

1. The "e" division size is suitable for the product you are weighing
2. The minimum weight you wish to weigh meets the range of packages
3. The capacity and platform size is suitable for your range of package
4. Manufacturer’s name and address, Type examination certificate number Metrology symbol (M)
5. Model Number, Serial Number, Year when machine placed on Market (MXX)
6. CE or UKCA Mark, Dealer Sticker upon despatch as required under 2016 Weights & Measures Act.

The custom  scales and balancesare built to order for calibration, operation and compliance checks.Scales which have assembled columns or custom setups and weigh price labellers, may require collection dependant on configuration to ensure you have recieved adequate training on use of equipment.

Trade approved scales and balances may have features disabled in normal operation, in order to comply with model approvals - we suggest using the request for "Pro-Forma Invoice" option to avoid card charges from card companies for selecting wrong machine selection on checkout or ask us prior to order.

We can then  check that  the details and forward you an order acknoledgement for you confirm the operation of the feature you require and ask you to respond for us to proceed with your order as these scales are freshly prepared  (make & Model Spcific), and are not an off the shelf product.

We only show a selection of popular products on the website however  Multi-division. Functional scales & Balances that suit more advanced users requirements i.e. statistics, printing, labelling, counting etc can be quoted, where LFT scales may be required, we suggest you contact us direct to quantify the application needs as often customers panic and order the wrong machine to their cost.

NOTE: - If you are buying scales to be legal call us first before ordering from, as they are calibrated to be compliant with UK weights and measures laws