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ACCUWEIGH PTY LTD.

Scales and Weighing Equipment
Vehicle Weighing
Packaging Equipment
Filling Equipment
Inspection Equipment
Software Services



Scales and Weighing Equipment, Vehicle Weighing, Packaging Equipment and Other Services


Accuweigh commenced operations in Adelaide in June 1992. The founding Directors, Brenton Cunningham & Greg Brogan both had many years of previous experience in the scale and weighing industry which led to Metal Detection and packaging equipment applications. Brenton Cunningham’s experience lay in engineering sales, management, marketing and administration, whilst Greg Brogan’s skills lay in mechanical engineering, automation, inspection equipment and hands-on trouble shooting.

Accuweigh provides a full and complete range of products and services in the weighing, filling, packaging and inspection industries, complete with after-sales service, backup and support.

Laboratory Scales & Balances

Low capacity scales and balances including analytical balances, precision balances, and compact balances. A&D manufacture a comprehensive range of analytical, precision and compact balances for all types of laboratories. The range continues to develop with the introduction of new models incorporating the latest weighing technologies. The range also includes moisture balances.

Retail Scales & Labelling Equipment

Retail scales & labelling equipment includes a series of price computing scales, suitable for light to medium usage applications. Battery operated scales are available with some models featuring PLU (Price Look Up) capability. Retail Scales include Price Computing Scales, Point-of-Sales (POS) and Weigh-Labellers for retail environments.

Weigh Price Labellers

Accuweigh supplies a wide range of weigh price labellers which automate the process of weighing and labelling of trays, packages and boxes. The weigh price labellers are suitable for use with a variety of different products including meats, fruits, vegetables, bakery products, as well as frozen and chilled products. All weigh price labeller comes with the full backup and support of Accuweigh branches in every state.

Dynamic Weighing

Dynamic weighing (or continuous weighing) is sometimes required because static weighing (that is, placing a product or item on a scale, taking a weight reading, removing it and moving to the next product or item) is unfeasible or uneconomical. Continuous weighing increases the throughput of product or items through a site.

Scales & Weighing Services

Although many companies in our industry have sales capability, Accuweigh is also a service-based company, which is a distinct advantage we have over our competitors. And our branches aren't just one or two-man service departments. We have a significant number of service personnel in each branch around Australia. We also pride ourselves on the amount of training we invest in our service personnel in all branches.

General Purpose Scales & Weighing Equipment

General purpose scales and weighing products include scales that do not fall in to other categories. General purpose scales include personal weighers, retail scales, parcel scales, freight scales, and counting scales.

Platform Scales

Platform scales range in both size and capacity. Capacities range from 30kg up to 100t. Accuweigh sources a wide range of platform scales and manufactures a number of standard and custom platform scales as well. A common platform scale is the 1200mm x 1200mm, 3t capacity platform scale, but custom sizes and capacities are also available.

Custom Weighing Applications

Accuweigh designs and manufactures custom weighing applications which are used for a variety of different purposes.

Digital Weight Indicators

Accurate weighing and measurement is crucial to ensuring product quality, process efficiency and materials control. Our high-performance digital indicators can be found at work across industry, controlling the weighing function in manufacturing, packing, bulk handling and logistics operations. Our extensive range incorporates intrinsically safe systems for hazardous areas, baggage weighers and weighbridge control instrumentation, offering a choice of mounting options and easy operation to maximize efficiency.

Loadcells for Scales

Accuweigh have a vast range of load cells from manufacturers such as Avery Weigh-Tronix, Thames Side-Maywood, A&D Mercury, HBM, Kelba, Precision Transducers, Flintec, Tedea Huntleigh, Mettler-Toledo and many, many more.

Health and Medical Scales

We have been proudly serving our customers with a huge inventory of top quality scales and equipment specifically designed for hospital and health care purposes. Included are a Bariatric Chair and a range of personal health scales.

Suspended Weighing Scales

Suspended weighing scales are often a practical way of weighing awkward or large items that are not able to be placed on a top-loading platform scale. It is, ofcourse, necessary to have some type of overhead support structure to hold the suspended weighing scale and the item during the weighing process. They are available either as mechanical or electronic units.

Scales & Weighing Equipment for Heavy Industry

Industrial scales and weighing equipment includes a range of scales such as platform scales, batch controllers and systems, and weigh hoppers and silos.

Peripheral Scale & Weighing Equipment

Accuweigh has a massive range of peripherals equipment that connects to scales, as well as test masses.


Weigh Price Labellers


Custom Weighing Applications


Suspended Weighing Scales


Peripheral Scale and Weighing Equipment

Weighbridges

Full-length weighbridges are available in a range of formats, including above-ground, semi-pit, fully in ground, multiple-deck, and more. The combined Accuweigh Group manufactures and sells more weighbridges in Australia than any other company and we have installed weighbridges in all Australian states and for all types of industries. We even export weighbridges to other countries in our region.

We also manufacture a range of weighbridge design types, including semi-in ground and fully-in ground weighbridges, rail weighbridges, and portable weighbridges. We have produced a Weighbridge Format Specification document which describes the various weighbridge formats and site conditions to consider when planning the purchase of a weighbridge.

Onboard Scales & Weighing

Weigh loads as they are loaded on to a vehicle, irrespective of the type of vehicle being loaded. Accuweigh Onboard Vehicle Weighing Systems is proud to introduce a world class range of vehicle weighing and fleet management solutions to the transport and waste/recycle industries. Accuweigh is the sole Australian/New Zealand and Asia Pacific distributor for Europe’s largest onboard vehicle weighing manufacturer - PM Onboard.

Together PM Onboard and Accuweigh’s design team are continually working to improve and design new innovative electronic weighing systems for vehicles to meet a diverse range of applications. Accuweigh is also a distributor for RDS Technology, a company which designs and manufactures a wide range of instrumentation for the mobile machinery industry.

Wheel Weighers

Wheel weighers are typically light-weight, portable weigh pads with connectivity. Cable and cable-free options are available. Static and in motion options are also available.

  • Lightweight cable-free design for ease of portability and set-up
  • Integral printout of wheel, axle and gross weights
  • High visibility weight and data input displays
  • Full weighbridge functionality
  • Overload warning printout
  • PC integration for comprehensive data storage
  • Selectable static or in motion operation
  • Selectable law enforcement or fleet management software
  • Designed to meet and exceed OIML Class IIII

In-Motion Axle Weighers

Axle Weighbridges are designed to provide fast and accurate axle and gross weight information for all vehicle types from light vans to the heaviest multi-axle vehicles.
Supaweigh weighs any vehicle up to 40,000kg per axle ‘in motion’ at speeds up to 15 km/h dependent on application. It is simple to install and relocate and is ideal for sites where space or access is limited. Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the SupaWeigh in-motion axle weigher system, from Central Weighing.

Supaweigh Typical Specifications:

  • Dimensions: 3m x 0.73m x 0.23m
  • Weight of Platform: 860 kgs
  • Weighbridge Capacity: 25,000 kgs per axle
  • System Accuracy: ± 1% of gross weight
  • Supaweigh 4000 Keyboard: Alphanumeric
  • Supaweigh 3000 Keyboard: Numeric Only

Weighbridge Software

The range begins at a basic, entry-level software package for small sites, and ends at a professional-level software package without limitation.

Features

  • Weigh in / Weigh out functionality
  • Powerful report building features
  • Security levels available
  • Split weighing available


Weighbridges


Wheel Weighers


In-Motion Axle Weighers


Weighbridge Software

Kit Packaging Equipment

Kit Packaging Systems are used to produce combinations of kits, primarily for hardware and component industries. Systems can range from a simple fastener counting machine to a complete high-speed, multiple-component kit packaging line, complete with cartoning and palletizing. Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the ImanPack brand as the ImanPack name is well-known and highly regarded for quality and proven performance.

Packaging Software

Packaging Software is important for product reporting and site quality control. Yet the Packaging Software needs for each site varies, depending on the site's processes and procedures.

For this reason, a Software Engineering company needs to have solid experience, but also remain flexible to meet all the needs of each site.

Advanced Australasian Software (AASoftware) is the software division of Accuweigh and has the knowledge and experience to engineer software especially specific for packaging processes, including interfacing to a range of packaging industry equipment. AASoftware has proven experience with an extensive library of standard, off-the-shelf packaging software packages, but remains flexible with the ability to provide custom packaging software packages for any site.

Packing Denesters

Ixia Pick and Place Denesters are used to "denest" product packaging (containers, trays and lids), as supplied by the packaging supplier, and place them in preparation for product filling and sealing. Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the Ixia brand as the Ixia name is well-known and highly regarded for quality and proven performance.

Ixia has extensive experience with automatic placement of a wide variety of packaging and products covering areas such as:

  • Bakery
  • Ready Meals
  • Fresh Produce
  • Meat, Poultry, Fish
  • Cosmetics and Toiletries
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Credit Card Industry
  • Mailing Industry

Automatic packaging denesters are available for a wide variety of container types, shapes, and sizes.

Form, Fill and Seal Machines

Vertical Form, Fill and Seal Machines (or VFFS) are a high-speed packaging machine, ideal for bagging food products in to sealed plastic bags. Delicate food products, such as potato chips and biscuits, are protected from damage to maximize product appearance and quality. The machines will fill the bag to the required weight or volume, heat seal the bag, label the bag with a time/date stamp, and auto cut the bag. VFFS equipment can produce one complete bag per second, depending on the bag size, and are ideal for high-throughput production factories.

Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the Elpack brand as the Elpack name is well-known and highly regarded for quality and proven performance. Accuweigh has installed many of these machines throughout Australasia.

Model GL250

  • Features high speed, superior reliability and quality sealing
  • Its design permits easy change of formers and simple reel loading
  • Theses features combined with user-friendly self-diagnostic computerized controls, make the GL-250 one of the best values on the market
Model GL250 4P
  • This new machine produces a bag with a flat bottom, while sealing the four edges of the bag.
  • Eventually, a beautiful square bottom bag is produced, standing on its own due to the reinforced sealed edges.
  • Among the advantages, a clean surface (front, rear & sides) is achieved allowing a high quality graphic design of the film. This system is able to work with a relative thin packaging material avoiding collapsing of the bag.
Model Gl250 4PZ

For fragile products, such as: bakery items, biscuits, wafers, etc.

Model Elk

The machines are built with a simple but sturdy structure, working with high efficiency and reliability. The three side sealing makes it ideal for filling small pouches.

The various dosing system can pack products such as:

  • Spices
  • Sugar
  • Tea
  • Seed
  • Baking powder
  • Creams
  • Shampoo

Multihead Weighing

Multi-Head Weighing Systems, also known as Dosing Machines, are a high-speed option for dosing product by weight. A system may have as little as four weighing heads or as many as 16, depending on the required product throughput.

Product videos and DVD-ROM's are available upon request. There are several video examples of these machines in actual operation. The speed of operation is simply astounding.


Packaging Software


Packing Denesters


Multihead Weighing


Kit Packaging Equipment

Robot Palletizers

Palletizing product by hand is often a time-consuming and arduous task, even when using vacuum lifting equipment. Palletizing robots and other automated systems are faster, more accurate and more cost effective in the long-run. A large range of palletizing systems are available, depending on the requirements of your site.

Accuweigh is the distributor for ImanPack equipment in Australia. ImanPack manufactures a number of Automatic Palletizer Systems. Iman Pack manufactures both robotic-type and spider-type Palletizers. Both are high speed, multi-function pick-and-place robots, suitable to auto-feed horizontal wrappers, to load ready-bags in carton boxes, to orient and align products for easy feeding, and to check and reject defected products.

Valve Bag Filling

The V2550 Valve Bag Filler is a totally self-contained bagging system leading the way in bagging a range of products in to valve bags. The V2550 is extremely unobtrusive to any site with a small footprint, simple installation (simply locate and connect to services), and silent running. The V2550 requires no special tools to complete installation and requires no tools at all to make operational adjustments. The system is controlled by a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and has a fully integrated low pressure air generation system.

Consistent, repeatable accuracy is achieved because the V2550 has a dual-stage filling system. The majority of the product is filled at the maximum fill rate. Just prior to attaining the target weight, the fill rate is reduced to a “dribble” feed to allow the system to more accurately halt product flow to achieve the desired target weight.

Features

  • Fully Electronic Loadcell Weighing System
  • Bag Weights From 5kg To 50kg
  • Can be Skid Mounted Suitable for Bulk Densities up to 2500kg/m3
  • Maximum 99 Preset Product Memories
  • Totalized Bag Count and Weight for Each Memory
  • 50mm Bag Spout
  • PLC Controlled
  • Two-Stage Filling
  • Silent Running

Options

- Three-Phase Power Input
- Dust Extraction Facilities
- Automatic Bag Ejection
- External Exhaust Facilities
- Stainless Steel Construction

Services

- 700kPa, 3L/s Compressed Air
- 240Vac, 15A, 50Hz Single-Phase

Filling Software

Filling Software is important for product reporting and site quality control. Yet the Filling Software needs for each site varies, depending on the site's processes and procedures. For this reason, a Software Engineering company needs to have solid experience, but also remain flexible to meet all the needs of each site.

Advanced Australasian Software (AASoftware) is the software division of Accuweigh and has the knowledge and experience to engineer software especially specific for filling processes, including interfacing to a range of filling industry equipment. AASoftware has proven experience with an extensive library of standard, off-the-shelf filling software packages, but remains flexible with the ability to provide custom filling software packages for any site.

Open Mouth Baggers

AccuPak’s proven range of Gross Weighers is suitable for bagging most types of products including dry, granular, lumpy, crushed or powdered products into bag’s up to 50kg. Gravity, screw or conveyor fed, the GB50 is based on digital weighing technology and pneumatic control. Over many installations, the design has proven to be both reliable and accurate. The GB50 utilizes the well proven “weigh in bag” method that has been perfected over many decades. The bag spout is fully suspended on precision loadcells and the dedicated weight controller ensures that accuracy is achieved using automatic free fall compensation and optional two stages fill.

On-screen reporting of bag count and total weight packed is useful information for Production and Quality Managers.
The GB50C is required where product has inconsistent flow characteristics and/or higher weight accuracy is required.

Liquid Filling

Designed and manufactured in Australia for foaming and non-foaming products with limited operator input, the Accu-Pak range of Liquid Fillers is available with a variety of options to handle almost any product. The unit is totally electronic from the load cells to the weigh indicator, which allows seamless interfacing with on-site computer management systems, if required.

Bag Sealing Equipment

Bag Closing and Sealing Equipment is essential to automated bagging and packaging lines. Accuweigh manufactures Closing Conveyors and Top Formers to prepare bags for closing and sealing. These machines eliminate the need for manual operators to prepare bags for sealing and allow them to perform other functions on your site.

Net Weighers

Designed and manufactured in Australia to handle free and semi-free flowing products with limited operator interaction. The ACCU-PAK range of Net Weighers is available with a variety of in-feed options to handle almost any dry product. The unit is totally electronic from the load cells to the weigh indicator, which allows seamless interfacing with on-site computer management systems, if required.

Stretch-Wrappers

Accuweigh supplies a range of stretch wrapping equipment suitable for wrapping pallets. A mechanical arm rotates around the pallet in order to correctly wrap.


Robot Palletisers


Valve Bag Filling


Filling Software


Stretch-Wrappers

Metal Detection Equipment

Metal detectors are essential for a range of industries that rely on the detection of harmful metal contaminant materials. Metal detection equipment is especially important to food inspection and packaging lines. Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the Prisma brand as the Prisma name is universally well-known and highly regarded for quality and proven performance.

Combination Metal Detector & Checkweighers

Accuweigh supplies high quality Prisma combined metal detectors and checkweighers. The coming together of leading technologies in the sector, designed and constructed entirely by Prisma, has led to the creation of integrated systems that are capable of checking, managing and classifying products according to a common operating logic and with reduced overall sizes.

X-RAY MACHINES

X-ray machines are essential for a range of industries that rely on the detection of harmful contaminant materials. X-ray equipment is particularly important to food inspection and packaging lines. Accuweigh has chosen to distribute the Cintex brand as the Cintex name is well-known and highly regarded for quality and proven performance.

Check Weighing

Prisma represents a vital technological backbone for every company, covering every sector from food to chemicals, pharmaceutics and pet food, and ranging from small manufacturers to large-scale multinationals. Established in 1984, Prisma was the enterprising initiative of individuals with a strong background of In-Line Quality Control. From the outset the company has been at the forefront, alongside the world’s leading manufacturing companies.

Inspection Software

Inspection Software is important for product reporting and site quality control. Yet the Inspection Software needs for each site varies, depending on the site's processes and procedures. For this reason, a Software Engineering company needs to have solid experience, but also remain flexible to meet all the needs of each site.

Advanced Australasian Software (AASoftware) is the software division of Accuweigh and has the knowledge and experience to engineer software especially specific for inspection processes, including interfacing to a range of inspection industry equipment. AASoftware has proven experience with an extensive library of standard, off-the-shelf inspection software packages, but remains flexible with the ability to provide custom inspection software packages for any site.


Metal Detection Equipment


Metal Detector and Checkweighers


X-Ray Machines


Check Weighing

We are committed to providing high quality, lifetime service support for all our weighing and packaging machinery products.

From a national network of service centres, dedicated technicians are on hand to install and maintain your equipment, including emergency call-outs, repair and calibration. This system is supported by our spares warehouse for genuine replacement parts and our electronic workshop for the test and repair of electronic products and printed circuit boards.

Each technician receives continuous training to perfect repair and maintenance skills and is also kept abreast of essential disciplines including health and safety, environmental awareness and customer care.

Through our software company, AASoftware, we are committed to supporting our software customers. Our software engineers continually remain at the forefront of software and hardware capabilities, and we are able to provide long-term software support and solutions.

Trade Measurement Certification

Accuweigh holds Trade Measurement Servicing Licences for all mainland Australian states and territories. These licences allow Accuweigh to perform certifications of trade-approved weighing equipment, from small retail scales to full-length weighbridges.

System Designs

We've installed a lot of different types of systems and a lot of system configurations over the years. You might want to design a system yourself, but you can be assured that we have experience in system design and take this process off your hands, if you wish. We can also provide advice throughout the design stage, if you choose to design the system yourself.


Inspection Software


Filling Software


Packaging Software


Weighbridge Software
 

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