Bespoke heavy duty weighbridges play vital role at Tata Steel

Weightron Bilanciai Ltd have designed, built and installed three special versions of their robust Titan surface mount weighbridges for Tata Steel. The install comprises two 50 tonne weighbridges for weighing road vehicles entering and leaving the site together with an extra wide 100 tonne weighbridge for weighing large on-site vehicles. The new 18 metre weighbridge decks have been sized to replace existing weighbridges, which had come to the end of their useful life, fitting directly into existing foundations.
 
All three weighbridges are used extensively throughout the year, with the 100 tonne version clocking up an average of 150 weighings a day and the two road bridges over 300 weighings between them.
 
The Titan design has an excellent reputation for durability and accuracy. The weighbridge has a fully welded drive-through steel structure, designed to withstand very high concentrated loads and continual use, making it ideal for such harsh working environments. The varying concentration of lateral steel beams along the length of the deck takes into account high loading areas and the over-sized longitudinal beams are specified for minimum deflection along the 18 metre length.
 
Although the 100 tonne weighbridge is only used for weighing on-site vehicles, all three weighbridges are weights and measures approved. This gives added site flexibility, allowing the 100 tonne weighbridge to be used for weighing road vehicles if the need arises. The Titan weighbridges are fitted with Weightron’s CPR fully welded stainless steel canister load cells and mounting assemblies, The CPR and its assembly is designed to optimise load introduction and prevent load cell damage, even under heavy braking conditions. The compact format of the CPR (and its CPD digital counterpart) provides a number of important technical advantages over other weighbridge load cell designs, especially more cumbersome beam cells.
 
Weightron have extensive experience in providing bespoke weighbridge designs for both pit and surface mount applications. This manufacturing versatility and flexibility, together with rapid turnaround, ensures optimised solutions for both new and retrofit applications.