Yamato Scale

Yamato Seiko K. K. (Japanese大.和 制衡 株式会社, Yamato Seiko Kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Yamato Scale Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese manufacturer of multihead weighers in the food, chemical and heavy industry.

The headquarters of Yamato is in Akashi in Japan. The company employs approximately 400 employees.

The headquarters of the European Yamato Scale GmbH subsidiary is in Willich.

History

Yamato was in 1922 as a division of the scale Kawanishi Kikai KK founded and spun off in December 1945 as an independent company. The German subsidiary of Yamato Scale GmbH was founded in 1986 in Dusseldorf. In 1953 they produced the first Japanese company to strain gauge load cells and crane scales and in 1974 the first Japanese continuous sterilizer.

In the late 1970s, they developed the first Yamato multihead weigher. In 1979 Yamato Scale introduced the first multi- head weigher, which was equipped with load cells. To meet the demand of the industry for ever faster weighing solutions, Yamato Scale developed in 1981, the double- shift operation and was able to demonstrate for the first time weighing speeds of up to 120 weighings per minute.

A further increase in speed to 160 weighings per minute reached Yamato in 1984 with a 16 - head weigher with newly developed storage containers. 1988 Yamato developed a world first, the mixture software for multi-head weighers, who henceforth allowed the accurate weighing of mixtures. Introducing the Touch Screen Command Console in 1989, the operation and control of multi-head weighers fundamentally changed.

A year later, Yamato introduced a 10 - head weigher with storage containers and very compact dimensions, the cradle speeds of up to 130 weighings per minute allowed despite the small dimensions.

In 2008, Yamato presents at Interpack with the ADW F528SVD before a new 28- head multihead weigher concept. 2011 Yamato presents at Interpack the fastest multi-head scales in the world, with over 600 weighings per minute.