The Mettler Toledo entrepreneurial group is specialized in precision instruments for the professional use. The enterprise is the world largest manufacturer of balancing systems, which cover a balancing range from 0,0000001 gram to 1000 tons.

Mettler Toledo ranks besides among the market leaders in different complementary measuring technologies. Among the offer rank analytic instruments, systems for the automated medicament research and active substance development, instruments to process analytics as well as control systems for the packaging industry.

Mettler Toledo employs world-wide more than 8000 coworker inside and coworkers and gained in the financial year 2002 a conversion of 1,2 billion US Dollar. The shares of the enterprise are acted at the New Yorker stock exchange.

Products and markets

Mettler Toledo solutions are in almost any industry.

In the laboratory

Laboratories are one of the key markets of the enterprise. Mettler Toledo of instruments stand for Pharma, chemistry, food and Kosmetikindustrie in the research and development, including that medicament research, in the employment as well as in quality control under other that one. The enterprise is the world-wide largest offerer of the three usually-used laboratory instrument balances, pipettes and pH meters - and is considered as a pioneer within the range of systems to automated chemistry.

In the industry

Mettler Toledo supports its customers in the industry with comprehensive solutions for the individual steps of the respective manufacturing processes - of raw material entrance over the individual Fertigungsstufen and In-Line-Messungenbis to packing control, logistics and to the dispatch. SichMettler Toledo solutions let integrate and support into the existing IT-environment the automation of the work rivers on customer side.

In the food trade

The Mettler Toledo offer within the range Retail covers all stages to for management of fresh goods the off of the goods received and Vorverpackung over the self-service and the bar sales up to check out. Mettler Toledo of systems are networkable and can seize the most diverse data. The software solutions of Mettler Toledo support the customer both price structuring, the stock management as well as in the Merchandising.

Enterprise history

1945 created Swiss engineer Dr. Erhard Mettler in at the Zurich lake a precision mechanics enterprise. It invented the substitution principle and developed an univalve balance for series production. In the laboratory the univalve analytical balance displaced gradually the conventional clam-shell balance. In the fifties-years measurements became exactly possible on a ten-millionth gram. The "Mettler balance" became practically the synonym for the laboratory balance. 1973 launched the Mettler of instruments AG a first all-electronic the PT1200. This model was those world-wide first electronic balance, which became certified for the highest accuracy class (class I), and marked the beginning of the electronic age. With the triumphant advance the microprocessor technology extended various new applications the radius of action of the enterprise in the consequence. Current innovation activity brought a broad abundance at laboratory instruments - under it titration automats and thermal analysis devices - as well as various products out for the industry. Parallel to it the enterprise developed its global selling and service net continuously. In the eighties-years a third support leg developed with the Retail section apart from the laboratory and industrial range. The technological progress made it possible to make from shop balances of systems for the management from fresh goods to. In the year 1980 sold Dr. Mettler its enterprise to the Ciba-Geigy AG.1989 Mettler the Toledao Scale corporation, the largest US-American manufacturer of Industriewaagen with seat in Columbus, Ohio akquirierte. Its founder, Henry Theobald, had brought an innovative shop balance to 1901 with automatic weight and price announcement on the market. By continuous innovation Toledo could develop its market position. From the shoulder conclusion of the two prominent enterprises Mettler Toledo followed. In October 1996 Mettler Toledo of the Ciba-Geigy became AG to the New Yorker AEA of investor Inc. sold, as preparation for the planned stock exchange course. On 14 November 1997 the enterprise terminated first mission. Since that time its shares are acted at the New York stick Exchange under the Ticker-Symbol MTD.

Related links

• Website of the Mettler Toledo

Articles in category "Mettler Toledo"

We found here 8 articles.