Mettler Toledo

Mettler-Toledo

Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: MTD
Industry	Precision weighing and measurement instruments
Founded	Formed by 1989 merger/acquisition of Mettler Instrumente AG (Switzerland, 1945) and Toledo Scale (Columbus, Ohio, 1901)
Headquarters	Greifensee, Switzerland
Key people	Olivier Filliol, CEO
Revenue	$1,797 million
Net income	$275 million
Employees	10,400 (2009)
Website	www.mt.com

Mettler-Toledo (NYSE: MTD) is a manufacturer of scales and analytical instruments. It was formed by the merging of two companies: Mettler, based in Switzerland, and Toledo Scale, based in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The resultant company is currently headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and in Zurich, Switzerland, with offices for its many brands based around the world.

METTLER TOLEDO is the brand name whereas Mettler-Toledo (with dash) is the name of the company.

Divisions

Mettler-Toledo has several North American operating divisions.

Mettler-Toledo Inc.

Mettler-Toledo Inc. is the company’s North American weighing division. This division has three different business markets. These are:

Mettler Analytical Scale

Laboratory – products for this market include precision weighing equipment and analytical instruments. Including, but not limited to precision balances, analytical balances, micro balances (ranging to weights of .0000001 grams), moisture balances, automatic titration systems (standard and Karl Fischer), pH meters, conductivity meters, refractivity meters, density meters, and materials characterization instrumentation.

Industrial – products for this market include floor scales, bench scales, counting scales, in-motion check weighing scales, vehicle scales, and weigh modules for tank and hopper conversions. They also provide equipment for hazardous areas. This group also sells Statistical Quality Control software, formulation software, vehicle scale software, and batching systems. Their line of weighing terminals provides a broad range of functionality and connectivity (to PLCs) options.

8450 Electronic Scale

Retail – this division provides scales for the food retail industry. These range from counter service scales for the deli and meat counters, labeling scales for a meat room, and full service wrapping and labeling machines.

Each of these divisions has a direct service operation for providing service and maintenance to the scales they sell. (2005, Mettler-Toledo GmbH, Values Brochure, print version provided by Mettler-Toledo, Inc)

Mettler-Toledo Cargoscan

Mettler-Toledo Cargoscan products are sold by Mettler-Toledo sales organisations around the world. Cargoscan, (based in Oslo, Norway) produces dimensioning, weighing and scanning solutions for the transport and logistics industry. These systems are designed to determine the dimensional weight of parcels and pallets for correct invoicing and improved productivity. The Cargoscan range includes everything from manual systems, to fully automatic solutions that can be integrated into complex sorting systems.(2008, www.mt.com)

RAININ Instrument

This group produces pipettes and tips for laboratory use. Their range includes single channel and multichannel pipettes, as well as calibration and service for pipettes. (2008, www.mt.com)

Mettler-Toledo AutoChem

This division produces automated chemistry equipment for improving the chemical and pharmaceutical production process. Their solutions include lab reactors, calorimeters, and in reaction analysis. (2008, www.mt.com)

Mettler-Toledo Process Analytics

Within the METTLER TOLEDO Group, the Process Analytics division concentrates on analytical measurement solutions for industrial manufacturing processes. The division consists oftwo business units: Ingold and Thornton, both internationally recognized leaders in their respective markets and technologies.

Ingold (Urdorf, Switzerland) is a worldwide leader in pH, dissolved and gaseous oxygen, CO2, conductivity and turbidity solutions for process analytical measurement systems in chemical, food & beverage, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Thornton (Bedford, USA) is the leader in pure and ultrapure industrial water monitoring instrumentation used in semiconductor, microelectronics, pharmaceutical, and biotech applications (like in-line measurement of conductivity,resistivity, TOC and ozone in determining and controlling water purity.

Mettler-Toledo Hi-Speed

This group produces conveyor and scale systems for high speed check weighing, often used for product inspection. These are regularly used for can and bottle weighing in production. Based in Ithaca, NY, USA

Mettler-Toledo Garvens

This group produces conveyor and scale systems for high speed check weighing, often used for product inspection. These are regularly used for can and bottle weighing in production. Based in Germany

Mettler-Toledo Safeline

This division produces in-motion Metal Detectors, X-ray inspection machinery, and product handling systems for use in production. (2008, www.mt.com)

Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision

This division produces in-motion vision systems for use in production, this division was formed when Mettler Toledo acquired Illinois based CIVision, purchasing it outright from the founder, Chuck Stone, on 31st December 2009.

Sources

2008, Mettler Toledo Corporate Website, www.mt.com. Accessed on October 6, 2008.

Mettler-Toledo GmbH, (2005), Values.

See also

• Laboratory equipment

External links

• Mettler-Toledo homepage
• "New Scale Solves 129,000 Problems" , February 1949, Popular Science article on 1949 scale by Toledo Scale