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The V31 vision machine in the onsite Applications Center. Here, customers can send in test products to receive a test report of the system’s performance and capability prior to purchase.
look for companies who are also leaders in their markets and where their products complement or help to round out our offerings.” Key acquisitions that have formed the Product Inspection division to date include: • Hi-Speed, founded in 1953 and acquired by Toledo Scale in 1981, a maker of checkweighers. • Safeline, a maker of metal detectors founded in 1989, acquired by Mettler Toledo in 1997. • For vision inspection, CI-Vision, founded in the late 1970’s, was acquired by Mettler Toledo in 2009. • And PCE, founded in 1989, was acquired by Mettler Toledo in 2011, adding comprehensive track and trace with serialization and aggregation software to the company’s product portfolio. According to Zeng, the previous general manager of the Product Inspection group, Viggo Nielsen, had the vision of moving all of the machines and technologies into one place in order to utilize all of the brands’ resources. Nielsen made
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that vision a reality in 2018 by combining the business units, which previously were spread out in three locations, to a newly constructed 270,000 sq. ft., state-of-the-art facility in the Lutz, FL location. The next year, Nielsen retired and Margie Custin took over as general manager of the Market Organization (sales, service, and marketing) for Mettler Toledo Product Inspection. Learn more about Mettler Toledo Product Inspection’s move to Lutz, FL, and the appointment of Margie Custin. Go to: oemgo.to/custin By consolidating operations the company is able to streamline customer service across metal detection, X-ray inspection, checkweighing, machine vision, and track and trace/serialization capabilities. This also increases efficiency with all machines being assembled in the same production location, as well as parts and procurement engineering.
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