Details 15 March 2021: From the moment we’re born weighing plays an essential role in our lives. Later in life weighing impacts many aspects such as...
Author - CECIP
CECIP is the European association for national trade organisations representing the European manufacturers of weighing instruments.
Founded in 1958, CECIP has today 14 members. These include 11 national member associations from: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom and three company members from Portugal, Sweden and Turkey.
The weighing industry has gone through tremendous changes in the past decades with new technologies and techniques being introduced in all sectors. Nowadays weighing instruments plays an important role in every industry, contributing to the quality of the final product.
Today, CECIP is playing its role within Europe, striving for common and harmonised standards to be adopted at European and International levels. These standards and legislation should provide safety and quality to both consumers and users of weighing instruments. CECIP aims to provide valuable contributions to improve the quality of legislation and standards.
Details On 1 January the Brexit transition period ended and the UK is also in practice not an EU Member State anymore. Although a comprehensive trade...
Europe is the cradle of the manufacturing industry and has been at the forefront of industrial revolutions and technological innovations. This...
Risk Assessments are an intrinsic part of the legislative framework that relates to weighing and measuring equipment. It is explicitly stated in both...
Pre-packed products require an indication of mass or volume Most of the food bought in the supermarket is sold in packages. To protect the interest...
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Details The digitalisation of the European weighing industry creates large amounts of data flowing from weighing instruments. This includes legally...
Data collection is becoming more and more important in various fields where weighing instruments are used. In applications from digitalisation of...
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