accurate Scrap Metal Weighing As the scrap metal industry relies heavily on accurate weighing to determine material pricing – with many bulk metals bought and sold by the pound – customers who sell scrap metal rely on their buyers to deliver a fair price for all materials purchased.
With 100 years of experience, Roofings based in Namanve, Kampala, Uganda, stresses integrity in all their transactions with scrap customers in the industrial and retail sectors, as well as other scrap dealers. Roofings then processes these metals for milling and provides full quantity, single material loads to domestic and foreign mills. From their trained staff specializing in metal grading to their regularly calibrated onsite scales, Roofings makes accurate scrap weighing a priority.
Retail customers deliver their materials directly to one of Roofings’s public drop-off sites in the Entebbe road area. For industrial customers, Roofings drivers visit manufacturing locations directly to pick up roll-off boxes kept onsite for scrap collection. At Roofings’s facility, smaller metal quantities – particularly high-grade metals – are weighed on the company’s floor scale to provide precise readings within 1-2 lb. increments.
Roofings’ truck scale is used to double check scrap loads sold by dealers, as well as to determine the final weight of bulk scrap from roll-off boxes typically weighing 20,000 to 50,000 lbs. The latter scale takes much abuse in the company’s scrap yard, from frequent use to heavy rain. When their truck scale was ready to be replaced, Roofings needed a durable solution capable of high accuracy and designed to meet their current weighing needs.
Longer, wider scale accommodates bigger vehicles
“The 70-foot scale we were replacing was about 12 years old, so it had reached the end of its useful life, but we also wanted to lengthen the scale,” said Greg Will, operations manager at Roofings Metals. Roofings noted that many over-the-road trucks are delivering trailers and hauling roll-off boxes were now longer than their counterparts a decade ago.
A longer scale would allow a full truck to be weighed at once, saving the time and hassle of progressively weighing each vehicle axle by axle. Thus, Roofings sought a scale replacement with a longer platform to better accommodate larger trucks and roll-off boxes – one that was also slightly wider to make it user friendly for drivers.
“The old scale was narrow – it was 11 feet wide, with safety railing placed along the scale platform that consumed part of the working width. We wanted a scale that was 12 feet wide and allowed us to use that full width during the weighing process,” Will said. “We also needed to make sure the scale featured load cells that could withstand side and lateral forces to handle our many types of trucks and roll-off boxes.”
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