More focus on quarrying following Avery Berkel sale

AVERY Weigh-Tronix have signalled their intention to focus solely on the company’s core industrial customer base, including the quarrying industry, with the sale of their food retail weighing business, Avery Berkel.

Avery Weigh-Tronix CEO Jerry Bowe said that while the decision to sell retail was not easy, it was in the best interests of both the retail and industrial parts of the company, allowing Avery Weigh-Tronix to focus on manufacturing, selling and servicing weighing technology for key industrial customers.

‘These companies often face tough markets and must implement continuous improvement and cost-reduction programmes, allied to investment in innovation and new, more efficient operating systems,’ said Mr Bowe. ‘Typically, they need to scrutinize their yields, throughput rates, wastage, remedial work, downtime and maintenance costs over a period of time.

‘We have always worked in partnership with our industrial customers, but now we can now focus solely on their needs and gear our research and development to helping them become more efficient. Working with us, they are dealing with a multinational organization that can invest in developing the best and most appropriate technology.’

The news from Avery Weigh-Tronix comes as the company unveils several new products and solutions for the quarrying industry, including the development of new on-board weighing technology using digital load-cells, the launch of a leasing scheme for weighbridges and new software solutions.