Avery Weigh-Tronix

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Avery Weigh-Tronix is a company specializing in weighing scales. Its HQ stands on the site of the Soho Foundry overlooking Black Patch Park in Smethwick, Birmingham, England, with a US-based manufacturing and retail manufacturing plant. It was formed in 2000 when US weighing company Weigh-Tronix acquired the Avery Berkel group of businesses, bringing together the four brands of Avery, Berkel, Salter and Weigh-Tronix. Avery Weigh-Tronix is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of weighing equipment.

On the Soho Foundry site the company runs one of the very few Museums of Weighing in the world; admission by appointment only, contact details are on the site.