All About Weighbridges – Types, Industries Used in and Functions

A set of scales used to weigh bulk items is a weighbridge. For those in the country, while traveling on the highway, have you ever noticed a signboard for ‘Dharamkanta’? You get it right, that demarcation leads you to weighbridges. They are mounted by the weighbridges manufacturer on a concrete surface. The weight of the vehicle weighed is displayed on the electronic or digital monitor on the weighbridge. Large vehicles like trucks or rail containers are weighed using lorry weighbridges while they are on transit. Goods inward and goods outward are weighed to maintain exact figures of production and supply with the help of reliable and accurate weighing through weighbridges.

Concept of weighbridges-

To calculate the weight of materials, a vehicle is weighed twice, once loaded with goods and once emptied.

Types of Weighbridges 

When you plan to buy weighbridge in India, you will come across different types of weighbridges some of which include:

• Electronic pit type or pitless
• Digital pit type or pitless 
• Rail weighbridge
• Portable weighbridge
• RCC weighbridge
• Mechanical weighbridges 

And many more as the client needs.

The main function of weighbridge

At the time of moving from one place to another, it weighs the entire truck loads of goods, especially for the industries where material can be weighed only in transit. Also, the weighbridges are used by government officials to weigh a vehicle to check the load on the vehicles. The concerned parties are fined if trucks are found overloaded.

Industries using weighbridges-

Weighbridge supplier recommends the use of weighbridges in industries enumerated here:

• Mining
• Quarries
• Electrical equipment
• Iron and Steel
• Household goods
• Metal
• Liquid industry
• Powder industry

Amar Scales and Engineers has been one of the leading Weighing Bridge manufacturers in India offering a wide range of weighing scales of different industries.