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ADF’s UKAS 17025 accreditation, coupled with our vast knowledge of the weighing industry, provides you with complete confidence in our ability to provide all our services. This now includes a UKAS Scale Calibration Service. Along with on-site and workshop repair facilities, mobile service and planned regular maintenance, scale renovating/updating and new equipment supply.  What is […]

One of our long-standing customers recently moved to a new site. Their business had changed over the last few years; originally the vehicles coming in and out of their works were articulated lorries but these are now short wheelbase vehicles. Along with their vehicle change, there were also site restrictions. Due to a new office

…..normally 7lbs of brass and a lead plug! We found this weight at an antique market about ten years ago. Normally weights found on stalls have been acid cleaned so no history remains but this one is a little different. It has been used extensively, so much so that the 7 is just still visible

ADF were approached by a large manufacturer of component kits, which are sent all over the world to improve the accuracy of various component quantities in these completed kits. Due to numerous shortages of items in the individual containers, this lead to serious problems and many of the customer’s products ended up in very remote

A plastic injection-moulding manufacturer, who produces high quality components for their customers, contacted ADF regarding an inaccurate and slow packaging system. The management of this company needed higher accuracy counting; they were experiencing high returns due to incorrect quantities being packaged. Their existing system used counting scales that were not accurate enough for the application;

One of ADF’s local customers, a very busy metal processing company, had their 15-metre long road weighbridge struck by lightning. It was installed a few years ago and no lightning conductors had been fitted by the supplier; subsequently serious irreparable damaged occurred to the load cells and weighing indicator. ADF quickly established that five of