Every weight right. Every gate covered. Weighing equipment and site security for businesses and schools across East Anglia

Yes. We service, repair and calibrate weighing equipment, CCTV, barriers and access control from many manufacturers, whether or not you bought it from us. Because we are not tied to one brand, our engineers are used to taking over systems another company installed, and our workshop at Great Blakenham repairs scales and balances from many makers. Tell us the make and model when you get in touch and we will tell you whether we can help, then quote for a one-off visit or a maintenance contract.

It depends on how hard the equipment works and what your quality system or your customers ask for. ISO 9001 expects measuring equipment to be calibrated at set intervals but leaves the interval to you, and once a year is common: Brafe Engineering, a customer since 2002, has every scale calibrated annually. Equipment that is moved, overloaded or used somewhere harsh may need checking more often, and a weighbridge used for trade needs reverification after it has been repaired or adjusted. We will suggest an interval for each item and remind you before the next test is due.

Each certificate gives the make, model, serial number, capacity and division of the equipment, the certificate number and the set of test weights used, with that set’s own certificate number. It lists every load point twice: as found, which is what the equipment read when we arrived, and definitive, which is what it reads after adjustment, each with the error against the tolerance. It also shows the engineer who did the test, the date and when the next test is due. All new weighing equipment we supply comes with an ISO 9001 certificate free.

Yes. We supply hire weighbridges as a full installation package with no minimum hire commitment. The weighbridge is lifted in with a 100-tonne specialist lorry and stamped using our own weighbridge test vehicle. Hire can cover a project with an end date, or the weeks while your own weighbridge is being replaced. Tell us where the site is, how long you need it and what you will be weighing, and we will quote.

Call 01473 833360. We carry out repairs and emergency call-outs on weighbridges of any make, including load cells, indicators, printers and software, and arrange reverification with Trading Standards when a repair needs it. Customers on a maintenance contract also get planned service visits, which help prevent costly and unexpected repairs. For FCC Environment we kept a spare load cell in stock, so their downtime was kept short.

Yes. We design CCTV systems and recommend equipment free of charge, after a site visit where we ask how the site is used and what the pictures need to show. We do not recommend the cheapest camera if it cannot give the level of recognition you need, because a picture that cannot show the detail you need is not worth recording. The quote then sets out the cameras, recorders and any number plate recognition, with options where they make sense.

Yes, and it is an area we specialise in. Our engineers are fully DBS checked, and we plan installations around the school calendar so the work is done when pupils are away. We fit and maintain CCTV, gates, barriers and touch-free fob entry for primary schools, high schools, academies and colleges in East Anglia and Essex, including several schools in the Unity Schools Partnership. We often improve or link up a school’s existing system when budget matters more than starting again.

Our base is at Orion Court, Great Blakenham, near Ipswich (IP6 0LW), and our engineers are based across the region. We cover Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire for routine maintenance, calibration and installations, and we travel anywhere in the UK for larger projects: we have replaced weighbridges for Hackney Borough Council in London and fitted CCTV for a school in Romford. If you are not sure whether we reach you, call and ask.