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EMR, a global leader in sustainable metal recycling, has grown from a single UK facility into a multinational operation processing over 10 million tons of ferrous and non-ferrous metals each year—from car parts and boilers to tin roofs and beverage cans. If it’s metal, EMR recycles it.
The Challenge
To improve production efficiency, EMR sought a more accurate, user-friendly belt scale to help operators manage workflow more effectively. In recycling, profitability depends on both yield and material value, so precise tracking of input and output is essential. EMR needed a reliable, smart solution to measure daily output accurately and reduce downtime—one that could be accessed and managed remotely for greater operational control.
The Solution
EMR’s Technical Department turned to Halomec, the UK’s authorized Loadrite distributor, for a production tracking upgrade. Halomec recommended the Loadrite C2880 Conveyor Belt Scale, which was trialed at one of EMR’s six UK shredding sites to assess its accuracy and ease of use. The C2880 delivers precise measurements with advanced data reporting and streamlined information management.
Results speak louder than words!
After a six-week trial, the Loadrite C2880 proved 5% to 6% more accurate than EMR’s previous scale. The facility manager noted that the InsightHQ mobile app made real-time monitoring easier and helped quickly flag issues. The scale also reduced the need for constant maintenance—eliminating the need for a dedicated on-call technician—cutting downtime, labor, and repair costs significantly.
Enjoys Smoother Sailing With Loadrite
Padstow Harbour, a nonprofit fishing port on Cornwall’s north coast, supports its tourism and 20-boat fleet through a unique self-sustaining model. Each year, they remove tons of golden silt that would otherwise block shipping lanes. This nutrient-rich, antiseptic silt is sold across the UK for farming, livestock bedding, horse arenas, and playgrounds. The proceeds go straight back into maintaining and improving the harbour.
The Challenge
To improve its dredging operations, Padstow Harbour needed a precise, easy-to-use weighing system for its sand loaders—one that could track load weights accurately and deliver real-time reports to staff and commissioners from anywhere. They also sought a faster, more efficient invoicing process. The old method required a full day each month for manual billing, delaying payments and hurting cash flow.
The Solution
To solve its operational challenges, Padstow Harbour turned to Halomec, Loadrite’s UK dealer, who recommended a full Loadrite solution: the L3180 SmartScale, LP950 Printer, and InsightHQ platform. The L3180 delivers fast, accurate, Legal-for-Trade load weights—even on rough terrain—while the LP950 lets operators print or email tickets without leaving the cab. InsightHQ provides real-time access to reports from any device, and the eTicket module streamlines invoicing with certified, instantly shareable digital tickets.
Results speak louder than words!
With the Loadrite L3180 SmartScale, InsightHQ, and eTicket, Padstow Harbour has seen major gains in productivity, accuracy, and efficiency. Operators can now select or upload products, capture exact load weights, and print tickets—all without leaving their cabs. Productivity is up 25%, accuracy has doubled, and manual data entry is eliminated.
Invoicing now takes hours instead of days, allowing for faster billing and payments. This has reduced admin overhead, centralized operations, and earned the port Legal-for-Trade certification—key advantages for a mid-size port like Padstow.
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For Sheer Precision, East Coast Drilling
Crushes It With Loadrite.
East Coast Drilling & Blasting provides professional rock drilling, blasting and crushing services to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company has, for over 3 decades, successfully managed and completed a wide range of residential, commercial and DOT projects on time, on budget, and always with the professional capability, skill, and experience critical to delivering superior results.
As the region’s leading source of contract rock-drilling services for construction-site preparation, East Coast Drilling’soperations utilize leading-edge GPS technology to ensure client specifications are followed in exact detail. Their experienced team of professionally trained drill operators maintain a robust fleet of over 60 high-performance drills, designed for both standard production and specialty drilling, all which are capable of meeting and exceeding even the most demanding job challenges.
The Challenge
The relationship between customers and providers in the rock-drilling industry relies on confidence and trust. Customers want to feel comfortable knowing that the data they receive is accurate so they can rest assured that what they are paying for is exactly what they are receiving. The scales that East Coast Drilling & Blasting had been using previously required frequent maintenance and their measurement results were not 100% precise. Coinciding with that was the cost of downtime incurred while the scales were being maintained, repaired or recalibrated. Not only did this delay production schedules, but it also resulted in operators standing idle while the scales were out of service.
They needed a more reliable solution, one that required less maintenance while delivering improved accuracy. At the same time, they were interested in sourcing a system that had a smart-technology component, ideally one that is easily monitored so production could be managed remotely, directly from the office, from the field, or from virtually any location at all.
The Solution
To find the answer, East Coast Drilling & Blasting turned to K&R Weigh Systems, specialists on the East Coast in commercial and industrial weighing solutions. K&R suggested they implement the Loadrite C2850 Belt Scale integrated with the Loadrite Insight HQ and LP950 Printer.
The Loadrite C2850 Belt Scale is a tracking powerhouse. It’s simple to calibrate, and easy to maintain. It enables users to control feed rates, generate printouts, email reports, and interact with web-based dashboards. When integrated with Insight HQ, it allows team members to retrieve information from any desktop or smart device anywhere, anytime. They can easily and effortlessly gauge progress against target goals and monitor live production throughout the entire process, from loading crusher to belt feed, stockpiling and final truck loading.
With the added benefit of the LP950 Printer, time-stamped and dated records and customer receipts can be printed out right on the spot. Operators can report loading activity throughout and at the end of the day, including daily customer totals and daily per-truck totals. It streamlines the transaction and reporting process, making them much easier to complete.
Results speak louder than words!
Operators in the field report that, compared to the company’s previous scales, the difference is night and day. With their improved weighing system from Loadrite, accuracy is almost 100% and the scales are virtually maintenance-free. As a result, customer confidence is higher than ever. Loyal, longtime, return customers notice the difference. And new customers appreciate the efficiency. The experience of being presented with, on the spot, hard-copy receipts that reflect accurate measures, reassures customers that their transactions are fair and based on sound, quantifiable data. And that instills trust.
Internally, the elimination of operator downtime for the scales to be maintained, repaired or recalibrated has led to greater efficiency in the field, which ultimately reduces overhead cost and improves the bottom line.
St. Louis County Paves The Way To
Operational Efficiency With Loadrite
St. Louis County, located in Northeastern Minnesota, is the largest county in the state by land area. Through its large, dispersed fleet and a diverse inventory of road equipment, it manages 3,000 miles of roadway, half paved, and half graveled. Maintenance operations include summer gravel-road upkeep as well as winter snow-and-ice abatement using salt, sand, and chemical treatments. To facilitate this, the county maintains hundreds of gravel pits and stockpile facilities strategically located throughout the county.
The Challenge
Operators in the field had determined that the county’s previous scales were “inherently flawed”; they were inaccurate, unreliable and couldn’t be trusted. Loads often had to be estimated, leading to variations in material-usage reports between garages and operators. There was no standardized method for tracking gravel, sand, salt and ice-melt chemicals. This lack of visibility on loader activity, especially during weekends and at remote pits, made it difficult to verify application rates from the truck spreader controls, leading to discrepancies and disputes between the county districts. Additionally, there was no system to monitor loader use outside of business hours to detect if contractors or others were accessing materials without authorization.
St. Louis County was in dire need of a more reliable and efficient solution to their problem. They needed to identify and implement a weighing system that was highly accurate, easy to use, maintain, and monitor, and also capable of communicating scale-to-scale and operator-to-operator between locations.
The Solution
Fortunately, St. Louis County had a great resource nearby. They chose Minneapolis based Whitmore Inc., one of the Midwest’s leading authorized dealers of Loadrite scales. The experts at Whitmore recommended the Loadrite L3180 with InsightHQ.
The Loadrite L3180 SmartScale is a next-generation, onboard scale that uses advanced Artificial Intelligence to produce more accurate measures for more precise and faster loading. It enables operators to better optimize loadout, track productivity, and prevent overloading. The 3180’s integrated smart technology also connects machines and devices, within and across locations, for the accurate collection, synching, and reporting of loading data. Better yet, it’s effortless to handle, easy to calibrate, easy to learn, and easy to use.
Also among its advantages is its ability to seamlessly integrate with the Loadrite InsightHQ for centralized, real-time load tracking. InsightHQ features a built-in WiFi connection that makes it capable of delivering to the field, to the office, to virtually any place at all, a variety of critical data including both up-to-the-minute and historical reports for the ultimate in efficiency.
Results speak louder than words!
After the initial transition to 14 Loadrite L3180 SmartScales about 4 years ago, the improvement in performance was so substantial that the county doubled their order and is now fully integrated with 28 Loadrite L3180’s as standardized equipment across all 14 facilities. Countywide, operators, managers, and, ultimately, taxpayers, benefit from the reliable and consistent weighing of all materials. Calibration and procedural issues are now more quickly resolved, and truck spreader control rates are easily verified,
Integration of the InsightHQ onto the L3180 SmartScales provides centralized, real-time reporting which reduces the administrative burden of tracking and verifying material usage. And in the realm of enhanced accountability, interdistrict disputes are easily resolved by the ability to track which trucks removed which material and where it was used. Loader movements can also be monitored on weekends and afterhours to identify any unauthorized use or theft. Accuracy, accessibility, and accountability have all been vastly improved.
Atlantic Mulch Improves Efficiency
By The Ton With Loadrite
Atlantic Mulch is a leading supplier of landscaping and erosion-control materials specializing in mulch goods, soil, sand, aggregates, and hardscaping. Established in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2004 with a single, 60-yard blower truck, the company has grown to establish itself among professionals in the landscape and hardscape industry as one of the region’s most trusted sources for the finest in high-quality products for outdoor environments.
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In 2021, Atlantic Mulch was acquired by Heritage Landscape Supply Group, based in McKinney, Texas, and the nation’s second-largest distributor in the landscaping industry with more than 32 distinct brands serving over 210 locations across the USA. As an active member of the Heritage family of companies, Atlantic Mulch embraces the shared corporate vision of providing exceptional customer service while maintaining the highest standards of excellence in the products it processes and provides.
The Challenge
Accuracy in the weighing process had become a significant issue at Atlantic Mulch. The company purchased product by the ton but sold it to customers by the yard, which required a manual conversion of measurement using inconsistent factors that could vary depending on the operator and the moisture content in the material being loaded. This guesswork was imprecise. The lack of a reliable and consistent method for determining accurate load weights led to discrepancies in inventory counts, made it difficult to track materials, and significantly impacted overall profitability by delivering either
overloaded or underloaded product to their customers.
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This combination of factors created the very real need for management at Atlantic Mulch to research, source and implement a highly reliable weighing system that they could deploy while loading product onto transport vehicles. They needed a tool that was efficient, dependable, highly accurate, and easy for their field operators to learn and use.
The Solution
Atlantic Mulch turned to K&R Weigh Systems, a regional expert in onboard weighing products that serves a wide range of clients across Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas. K&R recommended the Loadrite L3180 SmartScale.
The Loadrite L3180 SmartScale is ideally designed for wheel loaders. Easy to handle and simple to use, it adjusts for rough terrain and other challenging site conditions so both new and experienced operators can load with greater accuracy, precision and speed. Its integrated InsightHQ technology provides instant access to transaction records and other reports from any desktop or smart device anywhere, anytime. And its digital CAN-Bus sensors for noise immunity and ground slope compensation are also included as standard features.
Optional add-on components include the eTicket module that can generate email-able invoices right on the spot with Legal for Trade certification that effectively transforms every loader into a mobile weighbridge. With the LP950/LP930 In-Cab Printer, hard-copy records and customer receipts can be printed directly from the loader, making the entire transaction process faster and easier to complete than ever before.
Results speak louder than words!
The improvement has been impressive, in both productivity and profitability. The company estimates that since adding the Loadrite L3180 SmartScale to its operations, they’ve realized over $100,000 in savings, primarily through the elimination of product over-delivery. Customers receive the precise amount of product they purchase, no more, no less, which increases trust, eliminates claims of underweighted loads, and guarantees fairness in every transaction.
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On the productivity side of the equation, precise weighing also allows for tighter inventory control and facilitates more reliable year-end audits. Employees can accurately load product on the first try, eliminating the time and effort required to “shake down” buckets in order to achieve estimated volumes. It’s now significantly easier to train staff on how to load specific weights, which removes guesswork, improves workflow efficiency, and saves time.