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Top Loading Balances

Unmatched Precision for Routine and Critical Weighing in a Laboratory

A top loading balance is a precise, durable, and versatile weighing instrument that offers a wide range of capacities, from 120 g to 64 kg, and readabilities from 1 g to 0.1 mg. Top loading balances are designed to meet the demanding needs of laboratory and manufacturing environments and are used for various applications such as sample preparation, formulation, counting, and statistical quality control.

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Advantages of METTLER TOLEDO’s Top Loading Balances

Trusted Weighing Performance

Trusted Weighing Performance
You can be sure of accurate and reliable weighing results thanks to METTLER TOLEDO's high performance weighing cells and quality construction.

Trusted Weighing Performance

You can be sure of accurate and reliable weighing results thanks to METTLER TOLEDO's high performance weighing cells and quality construction.

Simple and Reliable Operation

Simple and Reliable Operation
Touchscreen operation, built-in applications, weighing-in guide, easy results transfer, and more make your daily weighing tasks fast and efficient. Trust in METTLER TOLEDO quality for outstandingly reliable performance.

Simple and Reliable Operation

Touchscreen operation, built-in applications, a weighing-in guide, easy results transfer, and more make your daily weighing tasks fast and efficient. Trust in METTLER TOLEDO's quality for outstandingly reliable performance.

Designed for Durability

Designed for Durability
With metal housings, overload protection, and high-quality materials, our precision balances are robustly built to ensure reliable performance for many years to come.

Designed for Durability

With metal housings, overload protection, and high-quality materials, our top loading balances are built robustly to ensure reliable performance for many years to come.

Easy to Clean

Easy to Clean

Cleaning your top loading balance is quick and easy, thanks to smooth surfaces and rounded edges as well as cleverly designed weighing pans that simply lift off. Download our free cleaning guide and SOP.

Fast Results with SmartPan

Fast Results with SmartPan
The patented SmartPan weighing pan minimizes the effects of air movements on the weighing cell, providing high weighing stability. Results are delivered up to twice as fast and repeatability is significantly improved.

Fast Results with SmartPan

The patented SmartPan™ weighing pan minimizes the effects of air movements on the weighing cell, providing high weighing stability. Results are delivered up to twice as fast and repeatability is significantly improved.

Designed for Compliance

Designed for Compliance

LabX™ laboratory software works with our XPR and XSR top loading balances to take care of all your data automatically, provide central control of instruments, task and users, and support compliance with 21 CFR part 11. Read more

Multiple Connectivity Options

Multiple Connectivity Options

RS232, USB and LAN interfaces make it easy to connect peripheral devices such as a printer, barcode reader, or even a PC. Our Bluetooth® and WLAN options enable wireless connection.

Balance Status At-a-Glance

Balance Status At-a-Glance

XPR and XSR top loading balances feature the StatusLight™, which is built into the front of the display. It's easy to see if you have the green light for safe weighing.

Easy Leveling

Easy Leveling

From large adjustable feet to onscreen instructions to electronic guidance and level warnings, METTLER TOLEDO top loading balances make it easy for you to level your balance—a crucial activity to ensure accurate results.

Convenient Applications

Convenient Applications

All METTLER TOLEDO top loading balances feature a range of popular applications to simplify your daily weighing tasks, including checkweighing, piece counting, formulation, statistical quality control, and more.

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What is a top loading balance?

A top loading balance is a weighing instrument in which the weighing pan is located above the load cell. As per this definition all METTLER TOLEDO precision balances are top loading balances. Some analytical balances are also top loading balances – whenever they have the weighing cell located beneath the weighing pan. On the contrary, Excellence analytical balances that have the weighing cell in the back are front loading balances

Which are top loading balance uses in the laboratory?

Top loading balances are used in both laboratory and production environments, wherever precision weighing is required. Applications range from research and development to quality control in a variety of industries, such as chemical, pharmaceutical, food and academic. Typical weighing uses for top loading balances include:

  • Weighing objects and samples
  • Sample preparation
  • Piece counting
  • Statistical quality control
  • Sieve analysis
  • Differential weighing
  • Dynamic weighing
  • Interval weighing
  • Formulation

 

The following videos show how METTLER TOLEDO top loading balances can simplify your formulation processes:

Formulation Development and Producing Accurate Formulations

How to Perform Formulation on MS-TS Balances

How many decimal places does a top loading balance show?

A top loading balance shows between 0 and 4 decimal places to the gram (1 g to 0.1 mg). The number of decimal places indicated on a top loading balance is given in the datasheet and in the METTLER TOLEDO naming convention: The last numeric digit in the model designation of METTLER TOLEDO top loading balances is the readability in decimal places. In case of a XPR204S, the last numeric digit is a 4 – hence 4 decimal place readability (0.1 mg). Similar approach can be applied to the other balance lines (XSR, MS, ML-T, ME, ME-T, PL-E). In the case of MS303TS, the last numeric digit of MS3003TS top loading balance is a 3, thus 3 decimal place readability (1 mg = 0.001 g).