Scrap & Recycling
Rugged weighing solutions for scrap yards, transfer stations, and material recovery.
Scale Solutions for Scrap & Recycling
North Texas Scales provides rugged, NTEP-certified truck scales, heavy-duty floor scales, crane scales, and forklift scales built for the punishing conditions of scrap yards and material recovery facilities. Steel-deck construction handles impact loading and outdoor exposure, and 24/7 emergency repair service keeps material — and revenue — moving.
Scrap and recycling operations demand weighing equipment that can handle extreme conditions — heavy loads, constant impact, outdoor exposure, and corrosive materials. North Texas Scales provides rugged truck scales, floor scales, and crane scales built for the punishing environment of scrap yards and material recovery facilities.
Accurate weighing is essential for fair scrap pricing, material tracking, regulatory reporting, and load verification. We install NTEP-certified systems that provide legal-for-trade accuracy even in the harshest operating conditions, backed by 24/7 emergency repair service.
Weighing Applications
Recycling operations use our scales for inbound and outbound truck weighing and material pricing, floor-scale sorting and grading of scrap categories by weight, crane weighing during grapple and magnet operations, and accurate weight records for state recycling regulations and environmental compliance reporting.
Inbound/Outbound Weighing
Truck scale weighing for material pricing, load verification, and billing at scrap yards and transfer stations.
Material Sorting
Floor scales and platform scales for sorting, grading, and pricing different scrap categories by weight.
Crane Weighing
Suspended crane scales for weighing scrap loads during grapple and magnet operations without setting material down.
Regulatory Reporting
Accurate weight records for state recycling regulations, environmental compliance, and scrap metal reporting requirements.
Recommended Equipment
Compliance & Standards
- verifiedState recycling regulations
- verifiedScrap metal reporting requirements
- verifiedEnvironmental compliance documentation
- verifiedNTEP legal-for-trade certification
How a Dallas scrap yard reduced weighing disputes by 90%
A busy scrap yard in south Dallas was losing revenue to disputed weights — customers challenged scale readings because the old mechanical truck scale drifted between calibrations. North Texas Scales installed a digital NTS-TruckPro 7080 with a 682 Synergy Plus indicator, LaserLight driver display, and printed weight tickets. Weighing disputes dropped 90% because customers can see their own weight in real-time and receive a printed record.
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