Avery Weigh-Tronix

Local Support, Global Presence

Avery Weigh-Tronix operates worldwide through a network of wholly owned companies and international dealers and distributors, allowing us to provide a fast response and locally tailored solutions in more than 100 countries.

With a sales and service network covering the whole of the UK and Ireland, we’re able to offer the benefit of a global company with a local presence.

Global Weighing Solutions & Service

Avery Weigh-Tronix has a truly global presence, with UK headquarters, an R&D and manufacturing base in Minnesota, USA and further manufacturing sites in Canada, the UK, India and China.

Our team of thousands of highly trained and certified sales and service representatives is supported by an army of skilled technical and support experts worldwide. We also have an established international network of company trained dealers and distributors which allows us to provide a fast response and locally tailored solutions in more than 100 countries. All of our dealers undergo extensive product training to provide you with a trustworthy and knowledgeable source for all of your product and service requirements.

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Our Corporate Family

Owned by Illinois Tool Works, Avery Weigh-Tronix incorporates some of the best known and longest-established companies in the weighing industry.

Illinois Tool Works

Avery Weigh-Tronix is owned by Illinois Tool Works (ITW): a Fortune 200 company which is one of the world’s leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses.

A leading international business corporation with more than 100 years of history, ITW employs approximately 45,000 people and has operations in 53 countries worldwide.

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Avery Weigh-Tronix Scales for Agribusiness

Scale components and systems which have stood the test of time on thousands of farms worldwide and are ready to handle any agricultural environment.

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Dillon Force Measurement Equipment

Dillon is a market leading manufacturer of instrumentation that measures force including load cells, overload protection and suspended weighing products.

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Brecknell

Brecknell offer a range of light commercial scale products, with a focus on high-value solutions and accuracy.

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Exactrak – Real time vehicle tracking

A unique web based tracking and monitoring system for specialist municipal and highways maintenance vehicles, including gritters, gully emptiers and refuse trucks.

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Eyecon

The Eyecon with Visual Precision Counting eliminates the burden of prescription filling with a 99.99% count accuracy.

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History & Heritage

The roots of the modern Avery Weigh-Tronix extend back to 1731 when James Ford established a business as a maker of “stilliards” in Digbeth, near Birmingham, UK.

As the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum, the business was transferred to William Avery, soon joined by his brother Thomas, who traded under the name W&T Avery.

In 1876, the company produced their first Weighbridge, with the first Service and maintenance contracts added soon after, in 1887.

In 1895, the company acquired James Watt & Co and moved to the 25 acre Soho Foundry site in Smethwick. At the time of the death of the last Avery family member in 1918, it employed over 3,000 people and had businesses all over the world. Following the highly successful introduction of the first digital retail scale in 1971, the company was acquired by the GEC Group in 1979.

The US Business

The American side of the business, Weigh-Tronix, was incorporated in 1971 as a designer and manufacturer of agricultural scales. The company’s proprietary technology, the Weigh Bar®, allowed it to quickly expand into all types of industrial scales. Once part of the Staveley group, Weigh-Tronix acquired Avery with the help of private equity in 2000. After several private equity owners, the company was sold to ITW in 2008.

The Present Day

Today, Avery Weigh-Tronix encompasses a number of the world’s best-known weighing companies, including Brecknell, Dillon and Railweight. The company is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ITW corporation, a publicly traded, Fortune 500 company with operations in 57 countries. ITW has a repository of proven strategies and business process models used by all subsidiaries. These tools help companies find new ways to enhance customer satisfaction by providing original, customized products and service.