The Versatile Professional Uses of Platform Weighing Scales

When it comes to the trade industry, weights are incredibly important. Not only do the weights of whatever is being imported, exported or simply transported for delivery across the country need to be recorded for legal reasons and to ensure that companies are receiving the right quantity of goods or items that they are expecting to receive, but it’s important to know how much large items and objects weigh so that any lorries aren’t overloaded.

Of course, the trade industry isn’t the only one that experiences heavy loads that need to be weighed, but there are other instances where platform scales also come in handy. Read on below as we list some of the versatile uses of platform scales across different industries.

What Are Platform Weighing Scales?

Platform scales are a type of weighing scale that are on the large side and are fitted with high capacity load cells to bear and weigh particularly heavy weights with accuracy. They are often made of stainless steel and have either a smooth or diamond surface for easy cleaning or added grip.

There are also different types of platform scales available depending on what they need to be used for. For example, you have pallet scales, ramped floor scales, low profile floor scales and more.

The Uses of Platform Scales

Most commonly, platform scales are used in manufacturing, business and trade settings (as we’ve already mentioned), whereby they are used to measure and verify the weight of bulky items such as pallets, containers and other large quantities of goods. Another industry that uses platform scales to weigh bulk commodities is the farming industry.

Farmers and food processing plants alike may use them to weigh bulk food commodities or sacks of grain, for example. This is important for a number of reasons; firstly, farmers must perform a specific weight test of their grain, in which they must work out how much their grain weighs in pounds per bushel, as an indicator of grain quality. Likewise, they must weigh their yields, which is the amount of each crop that they have harvested. Both of these are important for working out how much revenue they can get from their crops.



Platform scales aren’t only used to weigh inanimate goods and objects, either - they’re also used in veterinary settings and zoos. Platform scales allow vets and zookeepers to comfortably weigh large animals. As for humans, in hospitals and doctors' practices, patients who are in wheelchairs can also be weighed thanks to platform scales.

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