1. U.S. Weighing Equipments Market Improved Efficiency of Scales Drive Replacement Demand “Increased accuracy and reliability of the new, sturdier scales with more load cell components have created huge replacement demand for weighing equipment.” General Machinery Analyst Team Frost & Sullivan

2. Major Challenges Poor market outlook forces competitors to focus on customer service Lack of innovation transforms the market to commodity market Consolidation in weighing equipment's industry restricts smaller firms' ability to compete Declining price of the mature product segments forces manufacturers to concentrate efforts on reducing costs Digital weighing machines limit the growth of mechanical scales

3. Major Drivers Increase in quality of weighing equipments motivates sales Increasing price-performance ratio drives the product demand Steady growth of food and beverages industry strengthens sales Replacement of older equipments drive demand Growth in certain end-user segments boosts revenues Competitive prices boosts market growth Globalization increases demand for transportation of goods

4. Economy slowdown continues to drive down prices, impacting revenues Mature market with high market penetration levels impacts sales Lack of product innovation and product differentiation curbs sales Declining prices of load cells affects prices Aggressive competitive environment results in price declines Slowdown in application growth resulting in reduced prices Major Restraints

5. The market witnessed improvement in the number of features that are provided with the scales in terms of electronic technology The U.S. weighing equipments market saw a slowdown in most of the end-user markets thereby impacting demand There is considerable demand coming from the replacement market Hydraulic and electronic load cells continues to see improvements in technology Electronic scales are slowly replacing mechanical scales due to their increasing accuracy Multinational companies are increasing their market share with acquisitions Industry Trends

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9. U.S. Weighing Equipments Market: Floor and bench scales Precision balance Check-weighing scales Transportation scales Continuous weighing equipment’s Other scales What’s Included

10. A&D Weighing Acrison, Inc. Adam Equipment Co., Ltd. Allegany Technology, Inc. APPOLLO Scales, LLC Analogic Corp. Aryln Scales Bizerba USA, Inc. B-TEK, Inc. Cardinal Scale Mfg. Co. CAS Corp. Chattilon Scales Cintex of America, Inc. Denver Instrument Co. Digi-Matex, Inc. Doran Scales, Inc. Emery Winslow Scale Co. Fairbanks Scales, Inc. First-Weigh Manufacturing Co. GSE Scale Systems Hardy Instruments, Inc. INSCALE Ishida Corp. of America K-Tron International, Inc. Measurement Systems International Merrick Industries, Inc. Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. Ohaus Corp. Pennsylvania Scale Co. Rice Lake Weighing Systems Sartorius Corp. Scientech, Inc. Sterling Scale Co., Inc. Tanita Corp. of America, Inc. Thermo/Ramsey Technology, Inc. Thurman Scale Co. Vishay Measurements Group Weigh-Tronix, Inc. Key Market Participants

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