Accurate Advice for Every Weighing Application
Scale Blog exists because buying the wrong scale is expensive — and most of the information available online does not help you buy the right one.
Most scale buying guides are written by retailers whose primary interest is moving inventory. Most manufacturer pages describe what a product does without explaining whether it is the right product for your specific environment, application, or regulatory requirement. Most comparison articles are thin rewrites of the same surface-level facts repeated across dozens of sites.
We built Scale Blog to be something different: a genuine technical resource for anyone in the United States who works with weighing equipment professionally — whether you are specifying a floor scale for a new warehouse, selecting a bench scale for a pharmaceutical production line, evaluating IP ratings for a food processing facility, or trying to understand when NTEP certification is legally required for your operation.
What We Cover
Scale Blog publishes in-depth buying guides, application explainers, regulatory guides, and equipment comparisons across six categories of commercial and industrial weighing:
- Warehouse and Distribution — floor scales, pallet scales, bench scales, and systems for receiving, shipping, and inventory operations
- Manufacturing and Industrial — explosion-proof scales, counting scales, checkweighers, crane scales, IP-rated equipment, and material specification guides
- Agriculture and Livestock — livestock scales, grain scales, USDA regulatory compliance, and field-use equipment
- Shipping and Logistics — dimensional weight, freight compliance, carrier requirements, and shipping scale selection
- Retail and Commercial — NTEP-certified retail scales, deli and butcher applications, and legal-for-trade requirements
- Laboratory and Research — analytical balances, precision balances, moisture analyzers, and GLP compliance
Every article on Scale Blog is written to the same standard: accurate technical information, US regulatory context, imperial measurements, and honest guidance about when a particular type of equipment is — and is not — the right choice for a given application.
Our Editorial Standards
Every article published on Scale Blog meets the following standards before it goes live:
Accuracy first. Every technical claim is supported by a verified source. We cite US government regulatory documents (NIST, OSHA, USDA) as primary references wherever a regulatory standard governs the topic. Manufacturer and industry sources are used to support application and specification claims, and every outbound link is verified as live before publication.
No advertising influence. Scale Blog is independently operated. Advertisers do not pay to have their products recommended in our articles. Where we include affiliate links — clearly disclosed on every page that contains them — the link destination does not influence the editorial judgment applied to the content. We do not write favorable coverage in exchange for compensation.
US context throughout. All capacity figures are presented in US customary units (lb) first, with metric equivalents where relevant. All regulatory references are to US standards — NIST Handbook 44, NIST Handbook 133, OSHA 29 CFR, USDA regulations, and NTEP certification requirements. Pricing, where referenced, is in USD.
Updated when standards change. NIST Handbook 44 and NIST Handbook 133 are updated annually. Where our articles reference specific edition requirements, we review those articles when new editions are published and update the content where the regulatory requirements have changed.
Who Writes for Scale Blog
Scale Blog content is researched and written by specialists in industrial weighing applications, with editorial review for technical accuracy against primary regulatory and manufacturer sources. We do not publish AI-generated content without human expert review and verification of every technical claim.
Contact Us
If you have a question about a specific weighing application, a correction to suggest on any article, or a topic you would like us to cover, we welcome your message.
Visit our Contact page to reach us directly.
A Note on Affiliate Links
Some articles on Scale Blog contain affiliate links — links to products or retailers through which we may earn a commission if you make a purchase, at no additional cost to you. Affiliate links are clearly disclosed at the top of every article that contains them, and in our full Affiliate Disclosure.
Affiliate compensation does not influence which products we recommend, which equipment we identify as the correct specification for a given application, or which sources we cite. Our editorial standards apply equally to all content, regardless of whether affiliate links are present.
Scale Blog is operated from the United States. Last reviewed: April 2026