What makes CST's Belt Weighers the best and most advanced?

The depth and breadth of knowledge incorporated in a product is what sets it apart from other standard products in the market place. While the end product may look or be simple, or may look similar to others competitors' products, the real quality element comes from a very sophisticated design engineering process to ensure the product is fit for service, as well as giving excellent value over its life.

Elimination/minimising of site factors affecting accuracy reliability and repeatability

CST has a detailed and extensive knowledge of the factors that contribute to, or work against accurate weighing, in situ. Through the application of professional engineering knowledge, these problem factors can be eliminated or minimised. We do our very best to get as much detailed site information as possible from our customers, and prefer to be involved in helping determine where the weigher/weigh feeder is placed on the conveyor. In designing each weigher, our professional design engineers input detailed site information to complex engineering design processes, in order to create a weigh frame that will give the desired accuracy 'in the field', dealing with your site's real world operating conditions.

Partnering approach

We aim to have a close and ongoing relationship with our end user customers - we are not selling just a product, as much as a comprehensive service, from design, to installation, and ongoing service and maintenance. We stress this relationship, because we know that in this way our customers are getting what they want and need.

Best value over life of unit

In terms of overall plant investment, the cost of weighing equipment is quite low, regardless of quality. CST has extensive experience troubleshooting mysterious problems that have led to a plant shut-down. These experiences reinforce very strongly our belief that upfront application of engineering design, to suit each and every weighing application, is the only way to ensure bankable accuracy, ongoing reliability, low maintenance, and avoidance of shut-downs.

Make, install, monitor

Our equipment, though very reliable, is not 'set and forget'. We make it our business to ensure that our equipment is installed under our supervision and maintained with regular site attendance. This is how CST is aware of the practical needs and problems of the customer. This knowledge, combined with our ongoing investment in research and development of our products, keeps our technology at the forefront of the industry.

Accuracy guarantee underpinned by strong commitment to integrity

Knowledge alone is not enough. Accurate weighing requires a philosophy based on strong ethical principles.

• Our business success is based on providing true data
• Therefore, at CST, we are committed to honesty at all times
• Our business is about providing trustworthy and reliable equipment
• Therefore, at CST we aim to be reliable and trustworthy ourselves.

Every company expresses its character in its products and services. It is only necessary to add to in depth knowledge and solid ethics, sufficient hard work and industry to produce excellent products and services. CST has a strong ethic of working hard to reward the trust of our customers with a good product and an overall good experience. We are not infallible, but we are strongly motivated by problems to maintain the relationship of trust with our customers by finding a satisfactory solution. The benefit to us is that we extend our knowledge through the solutions we find, and hence improve our products.

Electronics designed to highest metrological standards, fully remote controlled

At a more concrete level, what is the essence of CST's claim to be the manufacturer of the best and most advanced belt weighing systems? One significant factor is CST's staff resources in electrical and mechanical engineering. From this professional knowledge base, we have been able to translate the customer's performance need into a product which is very strong both electronically and mechanically. CST's electronics used the full power of the microprocessor when it was first developed in 1984. It was not a microprocessor emulating a solid state design as so many of the competitive instruments were. The original electronics hardware and software design, with only minor changes became our trade certified belt weigher indicator. This meant that effectively, all of the electronics sets we were supplying were designed and were operating to the highest (OIML R50) metrological standards right from the beginning. Furthermore, our original product had the ability to be completely remotely controlled (via modem before the internet) and incorporated many advanced testing and calibration features which are unique in the industry, even after 25 years.

Strong, stable weigh frames

From a mechanical standpoint, our mechanical engineering knowledge combined with our uncompromising quality approach have enabled us to create the strongest and most stable weigh frames in the market place. Our earliest customers have long enjoyed our high standard of belt weigher reliability and stay with us year after year, repeat purchasing our equipment for each new expansion, and installing our product enhancements and improvements along the way. As a result of our serious mechanical approach, our weigh frames were trade certifiable (OIML R50) right from the start, which is a reflection of the CST policy of providing only the best equipment. This policy has allowed us to build a sustainable business and relationships of trust with our customers.

Specifically designed for your needs

The best and most advanced product is no use to the customer unless that is what they need. The basis of CST's success is that we have not mass-produced a product which we think people want. Instead, we ask every customer, every time we receive an inquiry, what their precise needs are. As a result of asking many questions about each application, we specifically engineer a solution which fits the need, truly fit for purpose. While CST do have standard designs we have no standard products and we have no standard price list, every application is individually engineered, individually sized and individually priced. We listen to the customers, and use our knowledge, experience and professional skills to design the best and most advanced belt scale that exactly meets their need. That's why CST Belt Weighers and Systems are the best and most advanced in the market.