Legal for Trade Scales
Adam Equipment offers scales and balances that have been approved by NMI, EU, NRCS, and NTEP for use in trade. Businesses offering goods for sale by weight are required to use approved scales to ensure that consumers are receiving exactly what they pay for. That includes establisments that sell food and alcohol, produce, livestock feed, firewood, liquid fuel, landscaping materials, precious metals and stones, mechanical and construction parts, and prepackaged products .
Adam offers approved scales in a selection of capacities, readabilities and stainless steel pan sizes. Designed for easy cleanup, IP66-rated approved scales are well-suited for applications requiring washdown capabilities.
Approved bench scales can weigh and count manufactured parts or pieces of candy, and can be used to measure bulk spices. Facilities that require the portability of a bench scale include hardware stores, farms and packhouses.
Bench checkweighing scales are designed to handle demanding weighing, batching or parts counting tasks. Businesses with a quality control function find it helpful to use an approved checkweighing scale to ensure that a finished product sold by weight is within specified parameters.
Offering high capacities and large, grade 304 stainless steel pans, Adam's floor scales are ideal for production tasks, warehouse use, and industrial operations. Businesses rely on floor scales to measure bulk goods purchased by wholesalers or packaged for delivery to retail stores.

Highland® Approved Portable Precision Balances
Highland approved portable precision balances contain practical features that simplify legal-for-trade measurement, lab work, field testing, and commercial use.
- Capacity
- 600g to 5000g
- Readability
- 0.01g to 0.1g
Gladiator Washdown Scales
Gladiator scales achieve washdown weighing tasks in demanding food, pharmaceutical and industrial settings.
- Capacity
- 6kg to 300kg
- Readability
- 0.2g to 0.05kg
Swift Price Computing Retail Scales
Simple and stylish, the Swift offers a speedy weighing and price-computing solution for retail operations. EC type approval means Swift is ideal for trade, making it suitable for use by businesses selling products by weight.
- Capacity
- 3kg to 40kg
- Readability
- 1g to 0.02kg
AGB and AGF Bench and Floor Scales
Versatile and easy to operate, AGB and AGF scales are well-suited for use in warehouses, shipping and receiving areas, factories and production facilities.
- Capacity
- 8kg to 600kg
- Readability
- 0.1g to 0.1kg