Our History

The Brecknell brand has always been associated with global weighing manufacturers and has been viewed in many different guises over the last century.

Charles W Brecknell and Co was founded in 1913 in Birmingham, England and was the first firm to manufacture visible weighers for the wholesale industry. The company continued to expand into the 1920s and was purchased by W & T Avery Limited in 1926.

The Salter brand has also played a part in Brecknell’s history, and product was sold under the name Salter Brecknell for several years when Weigh Tronix and Avery Scales merged to form Avery Weigh-Tronix in 2003. The brand has since been re-branded as ‘Brecknell’ and continues to be sold under this name today.

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Our Corporate Family

Brecknell is part of Avery Weigh-Tronix, a world leading manufacturer of industrial scales, weighing equipment and measurement devices.

Illinois Tool Works

Avery Weigh-Tronix is owned by Illinois Tool Works (ITW): a Fortune 200 company which is one of the world’s leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses.

A leading international business corporation with more than 100 years of history, ITW employs approximately 45,000 people and has operations in 53 countries worldwide.

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Avery Weigh-Tronix

Avery Weigh-Tronix is one of the world’s leading suppliers of weighing solutions.

With 200 years of experience, the company designs, manufactures, markets and services a broad range of high quality industrial products and weighing systems.

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Avery Weigh-Tronix Scales for Agribusiness

Scale components and systems which have stood the test of time on thousands of farms worldwide and are ready to handle any agricultural environment.

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Dillon Force Measurement Equipment

Dillon is a market leading manufacturer of instrumentation that measures force including load cells, overload protection and suspended weighing products.

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Exactrak – Real time vehicle tracking

A unique web based tracking and monitoring system for specialist municipal and highways maintenance vehicles, including gritters, gully emptiers and refuse trucks.

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Eyecon

The Eyecon with Visual Precision Counting eliminates the burden of prescription filling with a 99.99% count accuracy.

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