System Scale exacts pound of quality

PEARL - While it would be an overstatement perhaps to say life couldn't go on without scales, conducting business without them would be nearly impossible. Much like computers, scales have become as essential to commerce as the copiers, computers and coffee.

"Think about it," said Steve Charlton, sales engineer at System Scale Corporation in Pearl, "practically every manufacturer has to have scales not only to determine what they have produced, but also to get raw materials in to make the products. Just about everything you can buy, a scale is involved somewhere. Therefore, the quality of scales is of utmost importance. And that's what we concentrate on the most here - quality."

System Scale was founded in 1978 when two former Toledo Scale sales engineers, Larry Polster and Ron Smith, …