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Griffith Elder Today

Griffith Elder & Co Ltd, based in Suffolk, England, design and manufacture electronic weighing equipment. The company was founded by David Elder and Edward Griffith in 1981 and has expanded over the years from small beginnings to exporting products to over 100 countries. The success of the company lies in its ability to design and produce very long lasting low maintenance weighing machines. Although the initial purchase price can be slightly more than other products which look similar, the overall cost of ownership is usually much less than the competition because servicing and spare parts are very rarely needed. This gives the company an edge when weighbridges and electronic scales are shipped overseas where maintenance is not easily or routinely carried out.

The company’s first product was the ‘Yield per Field’, an invention which monitored the weight of grain dispensed from a combine harvester. This gave management information to arable farmers which proved to be vital for profitability in a market where prices were being squeezed and less efficient farmers were going out of business.

It was quickly recognised that weighing in many industrial areas was becoming a necessity to stop theft and to help management become more precise and so a range of products were developed to give information that would be crucial in the efficient running of a business; and in recent years the emphasis has turned towards software control systems which are designed by Griffith Elder’s own in-house software development team.

In 1983 the company introduced the Ton-Tel electronic weighbridge which could weigh all produce on and off the farm and found a niche in weighing hauliers’ vehicles for overloaded axles. The Royal Agricultural Society of England awarded the product a Silver Medal for its value to the farming industry. This first weighbridge product led the way for a whole range of ‘Ton-Tel’ weighbridges being designed, from very small simple units through to large truck scales capable of taking 200 tonnes, with sophisticated computer programmes logging and reporting on weighing activity. The Ton-Tel weighbridges were rapidly taken up by industrial customers because of the robust design and long warranty that has become the company’s hallmark of quality.

Over 50 per cent of Griffith Elder’s business is from overseas trade which includes their capability to undertake special projects for particular customers and to be able to modify standard products to suit particular market needs.

Griffith Elder – The Future

Whereas the past performance of the company had been based around products designed for the UK agricultural market and modified to suit other industries; over the last five years a new range of weighing products has been designed with specifications to suit global industrial requirements. This new product range is putting Griffith Elder into the forefront of companies selling weighing systems to industries across the world. The technology is both innovative and high tech, using the latest thinking in electronic design for creating more accurate highly efficient and internet ready weighing systems which are now becoming the mainstay of the company's product range. More emphasis has been put on the ability to be able to connect a weighing platform or weight sensors directly into a computer network, without the need for secondary electronic processing in between the two, which was the old traditional way of working.

Griffith Elder are now leaders in the field of weighing technology with digital weight sensors and a secure communication system now in production. This new innovation delivers a solution to the problems of inaccurate or illicit weights being recorded by unscrupulous operators. It sets the standard by which other weighing machines will be judged.