If your company handles bulk fertilizer, 
the following information is important for you and for your customers.

Scale Designs keeps delivering:

"Low" to "No" maintenance weighing solutions

For retrofitting hopper/blender fertilizer scales with fully electronic
Stainless Steel scale frames with all components installed and pre-wired with a stainless steel sheathed home run cable ready to be connected to your digital indicator.

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Typical corner (stand)

Connecting plate customized to match the size and hole configuration of the connecting weigh-hopper, vertical blender, tank bin, etc. Notice the SS sheathed home-run cable, stabilizers (cross pieces), junction box (variable positioning), custom block.

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Custom developed poly block

This little block is one of the trade secrets that allowed Us to build the first ever fully electronic fertilizer scale. .

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Kraus corner (stand with leg)

Some older Kraus weigh-hoppers do not have connecting plates for the scale and the legs that fit into cups on the hopper are mild steel.

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A new scale was delivered to Mathis Farm Supply in Melber, KY on a Saturday at 9:00 AM. By 11:30 AM, the scale technician had finished, installing, calibrating and was on his way. By customer request, the scale was calibrated with weights above capacity.

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When Adams Fertilizer in Senath, MO received their new fertilizer scale, a key employee used a front-end loader and installed the new scale ... by himself... in about 3 hours. He said he may have finished sooner but he took time out for a snack. Their scale company calibrated and put it into service. While we can’t recommend this approach, don’t you admire the attitude and ingenuity of the employee?

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Many years ago and still going strong

Nutriens (formerly CPS) upgraded this Waconia fertilizer weigh-hopper with a Scale Designs fully electronic stainless steel scale retrofit.

When weigh-hoppers are made with stainless steel and the scale is made with mild steel the scale is often replaced several times over the life of the hopper. While Stainless steel mechanical scales are very expensive they don't fare much better because certain components in a stainless steel mechanical scale are subject to shattering

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Many years ago and still going strong

Nutriens (formerly CPS) upgraded this Doyle weigh-hopper with a Scale Designs fully electronic stainless steel scale retrofit.

When weigh-hoppers are made with stainless steel and the scale is made with mild steel the scale is often replaced several times over the life of the hopper. While Stainless steel mechanical scales are very expensive they don't fare much better because certain components in a stainless steel mechanical scale are subject to shattering

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Scale Designs new fertilizer blender/hopper scales are in service from Interior Reforestation Co. Ltd in Cranbrook, BC to Texas and from Western Farm Services in Hillsboro, OR (Ken bought two retrofit scale systems for existing blenders and a 3rd scale for a new Speed King Blender and then bought 3 more for custom liquid blending for Oregon Vineyard Supply Company) to Carolina-Eastern in Benson, NC and Southern States in Virginia and from Tennessee Farmers Coops, Nutrien, Sur-Gro, MFA Producers Exchange to independent fertilizer dealer/distributor plants throughout the country.

With the cost of fertilizer today .... isn’t it about time (and money) for you to replace the old mild steel scale frames?