Scale Down? We're On It.
When a scale fails, your operation stops, and every minute costs you money. Elite Scales & Systems keeps Houston-area operations weighing accurately with 24/7 repair, NIST-traceable calibration, and the parts and loaners to get you running again. Licensed, local, and on call.
Tell us what's going on
Most people who call us have a problem and a clock. So we keep it simple: pick the path that fits, and we'll get you to the right person fast.
My scale is down right now
Shipping, billing, or production stopped? Our licensed technicians respond 24/7 across greater Houston, with loaners and a stocked parts inventory to get you back to accurate.
Get emergency service →I need calibration & documentation
Audit coming up, or a customer asking for proof? We deliver NIST-traceable calibration to Handbook 44 with audit-ready certificates, scheduled around your production.
Schedule calibration →I'm buying, renting, or upgrading
New scales, rentals, loaners, parts, and preowned equipment, straight answers and a clear quote, with the right gear for the way you actually work.
Request a quote →One local team for everything that weighs
From a single bench scale to the truck scale at your gate: repair, calibration, sales, and support under one roof, so you're not juggling vendors.
Scale Repair
Fast, all-brands repair for truck, floor, bench, counting, and industrial scales, diagnosed and fixed on-site wherever we can.
Learn more →Calibration & Certification
NIST-traceable calibration tested to Handbook 44, with documented certificates your auditors and customers will accept.
Learn more →Emergency 24/7 Service
Day, night, weekend, or holiday, when your line is down, we answer the phone and get a technician moving.
Learn more →Maintenance Programs
Every scale in your facility on one preplanned calibration and maintenance schedule, built around your production, not ours.
Learn more →Sales, Rentals & Preowned
New and replacement scales, short- and long-term rentals, loaners, and inspected preowned equipment, with practical guidance.
Learn more →Parts
Load cells, indicators, junction boxes, cables, and printers, a large inventory so a small component never becomes a long shutdown.
Learn more →Accuracy that keeps Houston moving.
From the truck scale at your gate to the bench scale on your floor, we keep your weights right and your operation running.
Big enough to handle it. Small enough to care.
We're a local, owner-led Houston team, the kind that answers the phone, shows up, and stands behind the work. As national networks buy up the industry, we stay independent, local, and accountable to you.
- ✔We answer and we show up. Real technicians, real trucks, real accountability, led by owner Mike Castaneda. No callback queues, no "allow one business day."
- ✔Licensed and traceable. Texas-licensed technicians using NIST-traceable weights, tested to NIST Handbook 44, the standards your compliance depends on.
- ✔All brands, every scale type. From analytical lab balances to heavy-capacity truck scales, we service what you run, including equipment we didn't sell.
- ✔Documented every time. Clear service reports and audit-ready calibration certificates, and we keep a copy on file, so a lost sheet never becomes a failed audit.
- ✔Trained and safety-minded. Our technicians regularly complete approved safety and training programs, so they're ready for your site rules and your equipment.
If it weighs, we can help
We repair, calibrate, sell, and support the full range of industrial and commercial weighing equipment. Click any type for details.
From your call to back-to-accurate
No phone trees, no ticket numbers, no waiting on a regional dispatcher. Here's how it actually works.
You call
You reach a real person. We capture your location, scale type, and what's happening so we show up ready.
We dispatch
The nearest available licensed technician heads your way with test weights and the parts we commonly need.
We fix & calibrate
Diagnosed and repaired on-site wherever possible, then verified accurate against NIST-traceable standards.
We document
You get a clear service report, plus an audit-ready calibration certificate whenever accuracy was affected.
Trusted by Houston-area operations
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"Our truck scale went down mid-shift and Elite had a tech out the same day. Back to loading by the afternoon. These guys actually answer the phone."
"They handle all our calibrations and the paperwork is always audit-ready. We've never had a problem passing an inspection since we switched."
"Straight with us, fair on price, and they know our equipment cold. Exactly the local partner we were looking for."
Local to greater Houston
We're based in Humble, and greater Houston is where we're fastest, including 24/7 emergencies, including Houston, Humble, Porter, Conroe, The Woodlands, Spring, Baytown, Pasadena, Deer Park, Channelview, and KatyCONFIRM. But we don't stop at the metro line: we regularly take on work across Texas, from Austin and San Antonio to Dallas-Fort Worth. Not sure if you're in range? Give us a call, we'll tell you straight.
Beyond the metro: Austin · San Antonio · Dallas-Fort Worth · statewide for the right job
📞 Call for service in your areaCommon questions
Do you offer 24/7 emergency service?
What types of scales do you service?
Do you provide calibration certificates?
How fast can you respond?
Scale down? Don't wait it out.
Texas-licensed technicians on call 24/7 across greater Houston.
📞 Call now: (832) 367-4664Scale down? We respond, day or night.
A dead truck scale or batching system halts loading, shipping, or production in minutes, and bad weights cost you on every load until it's fixed. Elite's Texas-licensed technicians provide rapid emergency service across greater Houston, with loaner equipment and a stocked parts inventory to get your operation back to accurate.
From your call to back up and running
No phone trees and no guesswork. Here's exactly how a typical emergency call goes.
You call
You reach a real person, any hour. We capture your location, scale type, and what's happening so we can show up ready.
We dispatch
We route the nearest available licensed technician to you, with the right tools, test weights, and the parts we commonly need.
We diagnose & fix
On-site repair wherever possible. If a part's on backorder, we'll get you a loaner so you can keep moving in the meantime.
We document
You get a clear service report, plus recalibration and a certificate if the accuracy of a legal-for-trade scale was affected.
Emergencies we handle every week
- ✔ Truck scale won't read, drifts, or fails inspection
- ✔ Floor or platform scale dead or out of tolerance
- ✔ Batching or hopper system off and ruining product
- ✔ Load cell, junction box, or indicator failure
- ✔ Red-tagged or failed legal-for-trade check
- ✔ Storm, lightning, or forklift damage to weighing equipment
Why operations call Elite first
- ✔ Answered 24/7, nights, weekends, and holidays
- ✔ Texas-licensed, NIST-traceable technicians
- ✔ Loaner equipment to keep you producing
- ✔ Large parts inventory, ready to go
- ✔ Local, based in Humble, dispatching across greater Houston
- ✔ One number, one team, no regional call center
If weighing is stopping work, yes.
You don't need a rulebook, if a scale problem is stopping trucks, halting a line, spoiling product, or blocking a shipment, call now. If it can wait until tomorrow, we'll schedule it and save you the after-hours visit. Either way, you'll get a straight answer on the phone.
Emergency service questions
Do you really answer 24/7?
How fast can you get here?
Can I get a loaner while mine is repaired?
Will the scale be recertified after the fix?
What should I have ready when I call?
Every minute of downtime costs you.
Call now and get a licensed technician on the way.
📞 (832) 367-4664All brands. Every scale type. Fixed right.
Your scale has to be accurate, for shipping, billing, production, and compliance. Elite's Texas-licensed technicians repair, recalibrate, and certify scales of every type across greater Houston, carrying the test weights and parts to do the job on-site and get you back to accurate the first time.
Built for the equipment you run
From precision lab balances to heavy-capacity truck scales, if it weighs, we can fix it. Click any type for details.
Our repair process
- 01 Diagnose the issue on-site with proper test weights
- 02 Repair or replace the failed components
- 03 Recalibrate to NIST Handbook 44 standards
- 04 Document the work, and certify if accuracy was affected
What you can count on
- ✔ All-brands service. Rice Lake, Mettler Toledo, Cardinal, Avery Weigh-Tronix, Fairbanks, and moreCONFIRM
- ✔ Texas-licensed, safety-trained technicians
- ✔ Loaner equipment and parts on hand
- ✔ Same-day and scheduled options
- ✔ A straight repair-or-replace recommendation
When a scale is asking for service
Catching drift early is the difference between a quick service call and a red tag. Watch for these:
| Symptom | What it usually means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Readings drift or won't return to zero | Load cell degradation, debris, or mechanical binding | Schedule service before it fails an inspection |
| Different weights for the same load | Failing load cell or junction box moisture | Stop billing off it; call for diagnosis |
| Error codes on the indicator | Electronics, cabling, or configuration fault | Note the code and call, we often know it by heart |
| Visible damage, water intrusion, or rodent-chewed cables | Physical failure in progress | Call now, small damage becomes big downtime |
| Failed or red-tagged inspection | Out of legal-for-trade tolerance | Emergency path, you can't legally trade on it |
Scale repair questions
How do I know my scale needs service?
Do you repair all brands?
Can you repair on-site?
Will my scale be accurate and certified after?
What does a repair cost?
Accuracy you can prove.
Inaccurate scales create customer disputes, rejected loads, lost product, and failed audits. Elite delivers NIST-traceable calibration tested to NIST Handbook 44, with documented, audit-ready certificates, on a schedule built around your production, not the other way around.
What you get
- ✔ Calibration with NIST-traceable certified weights
- ✔ Testing to NIST Handbook 44 specifications
- ✔ A documented, audit-ready calibration certificate
- ✔ Clear as-found / as-left readings and tolerances
- ✔ A copy kept on file, replacements on request
- ✔ Reminders before your next due date
Built for compliance
- ✔ Legal-for-trade and customer-audit requirements
- ✔ Food, chemical, manufacturing & logistics operations
- ✔ Texas-licensed technicians, License #__________CONFIRM
- ✔ Scheduled around production, including off-hours
- ✔ Straight answers on standards, including ISO/IEC 17025 questionsCONFIRM
Paperwork that holds up
A calibration is only as good as the document behind it. Every Elite certificate includes:
- ✔ Device ID, location, make, model, and serial number
- ✔ As-found and as-left readings at each test point
- ✔ Applied tolerance and pass/fail result
- ✔ NIST-traceable standards used, with traceability reference
- ✔ Technician, date, and next-due date
Hand it to an auditor, a customer, or an inspector, that's the point of it.
Simple, documented, repeatable
Schedule
Tell us your scale types, locations, and any compliance deadlines you're working against.
Calibrate
On-site calibration with NIST-traceable weights, tested to Handbook 44 specifications.
Certify
You receive audit-ready certificates and a clear record for every device, and we keep a copy.
Stay ahead
We remind you when the next calibration is due, so a missed date never becomes a failed audit.
How often should you calibrate?
Two questions get you a realistic starting point, then we'll fine-tune it for your equipment and auditors.
If money changes hands on the weight
If you buy or sell by weight, scrap, aggregates, produce, freight, your scale is a commercial device and it's expected to meet NIST Handbook 44 requirements, with Texas Weights & Measures oversight. That's what "legal-for-trade" means: the number on the display is legally the number on the invoice. Ask us about the requirements for your industry.CONFIRM A failed device can be red-tagged, which stops commerce on it immediately. Documented calibration is how you stay off that list, and how you win the argument when a customer disputes a weight.
Calibration & compliance questions
How often should industrial scales be calibrated?
What is NIST-traceable calibration?
What's the difference between calibration and certification?
Do I need certified scales in Texas?
Can you calibrate around our production schedule?
What if my scale fails calibration?
Every scale. One schedule. Zero surprises.
The most expensive scale problem is the one that shows up unannounced. A preplanned calibration and maintenance program puts every weighing device in your facility on one documented schedule, designed around your equipment and your production, so accuracy problems get caught on our visit instead of during your audit.
Built around your equipment list, not a package tier
We don't sell one-size plans. We walk your facility, list every device, and build a schedule that matches how each one is used. A typical program covers:
Scheduled calibration
NIST-traceable calibration to Handbook 44 on the interval each device actually needs, with certificates issued every visit.
Detailed inspection
Load cells, junction boxes, cabling, foundations, and indicators checked for the wear that becomes next quarter's failure.
Documentation on file
Every certificate and service report kept in your file with us. An auditor asks; you answer, even if your copy walked off.
Due-date reminders
We track next-due dates and call you before they arrive, a missed calibration never becomes a failed inspection.
Small fixes on the spot
Minor adjustments and wear items handled during the visit, before they turn into downtime between visits.
A team that knows your site
The same local techs, visit after visit, they learn your equipment, your dock rules, and your production windows. Program customers also get scheduling priority when emergencies hit.CONFIRM
If a surprise failure would hurt, you qualify
- ✔Plant managers consolidating vendors and tired of tracking a dozen calibration dates on a whiteboard.
- ✔Quality & compliance teams who need every device audit-ready, every day, not scrambling the week before.
- ✔Operations running legal-for-trade scales where a red tag stops revenue on the spot.
- ✔Multi-scale facilities, mixing truck, floor, bench, and batching equipment that all drift at different rates.
Three steps to a predictable year
Walk-through
We visit, inventory every weighing device, and note condition, use, and compliance requirements for each.
Your plan
You get a written program, device by device, interval by interval, with clear pricing before you commit to anything.
We run it
We schedule around your production, show up, calibrate, document, and remind you before every due date.
Program questions
What does a maintenance program cost?
Are we locked into a long contract?
Can the program cover multiple locations?
What happens between visits if something breaks?
Stop tracking calibration dates on a whiteboard.
Request a site assessment and get a written, per-device plan.
📞 (832) 367-4664Scales we service
Every category below gets its own page, what goes wrong, what we do about it, and the questions we hear most. We repair, calibrate, and support all major brands. Rice Lake, Mettler Toledo, Cardinal, Avery Weigh-Tronix, Fairbanks, and moreCONFIRM, including equipment we didn't sell or install. Don't see yours? Call anyway: "if it weighs, we can help" covers a lot of ground.
Truck & Axle Scales
The scale your loads and your revenue ride on.
Service details →Floor & Platform Scales
The workhorse your dock and floor run on.
Service details →Bench Scales
Small platform. Big consequences when it's wrong.
Service details →Counting Scales
When the count is the inventory, accuracy is everything.
Service details →Tank, Hopper & Batching Systems
Weighing that runs your recipe, and your yield.
Service details →Belt & Conveyor Scales
Weighing in motion. Accuracy at line speed.
Service details →Crane Scales & Dynamometers
Overhead weighing where accuracy is also safety.
Service details →Lab & Analytical Balances
Milligram accuracy for work that can't be wrong.
Service details →Load Cells, Indicators & Remote Displays
The components every scale lives or dies on.
Service details →Truck & Axle Scales
A truck scale is usually the single most revenue-critical device on a site: every inbound and outbound load crosses it, and every ticket it prints is money. When it drifts, you're over- or under-charging on every transaction. When it dies, trucks stack up at the gate and commerce stops.
Elite services full-length truck scales, axle scales, and portable wheel weighers across greater Houston, pit and pitless, analog and digital, concrete and steel deck. We repair, calibrate, and certify them to NIST Handbook 44, and because most truck scales are legal-for-trade, we treat a failing one as the emergency it is.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Weights differ depending on where the truck stops on the deck
- ⚠ Display drifts, jumps, or won't return to zero between trucks
- ⚠ Tickets disputed by customers or flagged at other scales
- ⚠ Standing water, debris buildup, or rocking sections in the pit
- ⚠ Red tag or failed Weights & Measures inspection
What we do
- ✔ Emergency and scheduled repair: load cells, junction boxes, cabling, decks, and indicators
- ✔ NIST-traceable calibration and Handbook 44 certification
- ✔ Foundation, pit, and deck inspection with straight repair-or-replace advice
- ✔ New, preowned, and replacement truck scale sales with installation coordination
- ✔ Ticketing, remote display, and indicator upgrades
Questions we hear a lot
Can you calibrate a truck scale on-site?
Our truck scale is decades old. Repair or replace?
Truck & Axle Scales, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Floor & Platform Scales
Floor scales take the worst life in the building: forklifts clip them, pallets slam them, washdowns soak them, and they're expected to be dead-on anyway. When a floor scale reads light, you ship product away for free; when it reads heavy, you eat freight disputes.
We repair and calibrate floor and platform scales of every capacity and deck size, standard, low-profile, washdown, and drive-through, across greater Houston. Most repairs happen right where the scale sits, and loaners are available so a down platform doesn't stop your dock.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Weight changes when the load shifts position on the deck
- ⚠ Scale won't zero, or zero wanders through the shift
- ⚠ Corner errors: the same pallet weighs differently corner to corner
- ⚠ Flickering or dead display after washdown or a forklift hit
- ⚠ Visible deck damage, rocking, or debris packed underneath
What we do
- ✔ On-site repair of load cells, summing boards, cabling, and indicators
- ✔ Corner-error adjustment and NIST-traceable calibration with certificates
- ✔ Washdown and harsh-environment equipment guidance
- ✔ Loaner platforms during repair, depending on availability
- ✔ New and preowned floor scale sales sized to your capacity and traffic
Questions we hear a lot
A forklift hit our floor scale. Now what?
Why does the same pallet weigh differently in each corner?
Floor & Platform Scales, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Bench Scales
Bench scales run your checkweighing, portioning, packaging, and shipping stations, the places where a few ounces of error, multiplied across a shift, quietly becomes real money or a compliance problem. Because they're cheap to buy, they're easy to neglect; because they're everywhere, neglecting them adds up fast.
Elite repairs and calibrates bench scales of every brand and capacity, on-site across greater Houston. For facilities with dozens of stations, this is exactly the equipment a preventive maintenance program keeps honest without anyone thinking about it.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Readings creep during the shift or drift with temperature
- ⚠ Won't settle, the display hunts instead of locking a weight
- ⚠ Overloads or operator abuse (they get used as step stools; we've seen it)
- ⚠ Checkweigh rejects trending up with no process change
- ⚠ Failed spot-check against a known weight
What we do
- ✔ On-site repair and NIST-traceable calibration with documented certificates
- ✔ Multi-station facility sweeps: every bench scale done in one visit
- ✔ Legal-for-trade certification where product is sold by weight
- ✔ Replacement recommendations matched to capacity, readability, and environment
- ✔ Washdown-rated and food-safe equipment options
Questions we hear a lot
Is calibrating cheap bench scales really worth it?
Can you do all our stations in one visit?
Bench Scales, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Counting Scales
A counting scale doesn't just weigh, it divides. It weighs a sample, computes an average piece weight, and turns kilograms into quantities. Which means a tiny calibration error doesn't add a little; it multiplies across every count, every kit, every cycle count you run.
We service, repair, and calibrate counting scales for parts rooms, kitting lines, and inventory operations across greater Houston, and we'll show your team the sampling habits that keep counts tight between our visits.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Physical counts keep disagreeing with the scale's counts
- ⚠ Piece counts wander when you re-sample the same parts
- ⚠ Inventory shrinkage that audit can't explain
- ⚠ Display drifts at low weights, where counting scales live
- ⚠ Counts differ between your scales for the same part
What we do
- ✔ Repair and high-resolution calibration tuned for low-capacity accuracy
- ✔ NIST-traceable certification with documented as-found/as-left results
- ✔ Sampling and piece-weight best-practice guidance for operators
- ✔ Rental counting scales for physical inventory events
- ✔ Replacement recommendations by part size, capacity, and resolution
Questions we hear a lot
Why are our counts off even though the scale passes a weight check?
Can we rent counting scales for our annual physical inventory?
Counting Scales, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Tank, Hopper & Batching Systems
Tank and hopper weighing is process control, not just measurement: your batching accuracy is your recipe accuracy, your yield, and your product consistency. When a vessel's load cells drift, you don't get an error message, you get off-spec product, and you often find out downstream.
Elite services tank scales, hopper scales, and batching systems across greater Houston: multi-cell vessel systems, mixers, blenders, and custom weighing integrations. We diagnose the cell, the summing, the mounting, and the indicator, because in vessel weighing, the problem is rarely where the symptom shows up.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Batch weights inconsistent run to run with no recipe change
- ⚠ Readings shift with temperature, agitation, or connected piping
- ⚠ One vessel disagrees with inventory or the flow meters
- ⚠ Drift after maintenance work touched the vessel or its piping
- ⚠ Indicator errors, dead cells, or junction box moisture
What we do
- ✔ Diagnosis and repair of multi-cell systems, junction boxes, and instrumentation
- ✔ Calibration of vessel and batching systems, with documentation
- ✔ Mounting, binding, and piping-interference inspection (the classic silent killers)
- ✔ Indicator, controller, and remote display service and upgrades
- ✔ Support for custom and integrated weighing systems
Questions we hear a lot
Our batches drifted after unrelated pipe work. Coincidence?
Can you calibrate a tank we can't easily load with test weights?
Tank, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Belt & Conveyor Scales
A belt scale measures material while it moves, which makes it powerful and unforgiving. Belt tension, alignment, idler condition, speed sensing, and buildup all feed the number, so a belt scale that was dead-on in spring can drift by fall without anyone touching it.
Elite services belt and conveyor scales for bulk-handling operations across greater Houston, including floway-style feeders. We repair, align, zero, span, and document, so the totals you invoice, blend, or report from are totals you can defend.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Belt-scale totals disagree with truck-scale checks or inventory
- ⚠ Zero drifts over a shift, or the total creeps with an empty belt
- ⚠ Accuracy changes with belt loading, speed, or weather
- ⚠ Buildup on the weighbridge or idlers near the scale
- ⚠ Speed sensor faults or erratic integrator readings
What we do
- ✔ Repair of weighbridges, load cells, speed sensors, and integrators
- ✔ Zero and span calibration, with material tests where required
- ✔ Alignment and idler condition inspection around the weigh area
- ✔ Documentation for inventory, blending, and custody-transfer confidence
- ✔ Guidance on placement and maintenance that keeps belt scales honest
Questions we hear a lot
How accurate can a belt scale really be?
Our belt total never matches the truck scale. Which one's right?
Belt & Conveyor Scales, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Crane Scales & Dynamometers
A crane scale hangs between your hook and your load, so its number isn't just a weight, it's a safety decision. Knowing what's on the hook protects riggers, equipment, and lift plans; a crane scale you can't trust is worse than none, because it invites confidence you haven't earned.
Elite services crane scales and dynamometers used across Houston's yards, shops, and plants, repair, calibration, and certification with documentation your safety program can file.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Readings differ from known loads or between lifts of the same item
- ⚠ Display drops out, flickers, or drains batteries fast
- ⚠ Shackle, hook, or housing wear and impact damage
- ⚠ Overload events: after any overload, the scale needs verification
- ⚠ Out-of-date calibration on a device used in lift planning
What we do
- ✔ Repair and calibration of crane scales and dynamometers
- ✔ NIST-traceable certification with documented results
- ✔ Post-overload inspection and verification
- ✔ Battery, display, and remote-readout service
- ✔ Replacement and capacity guidance for your lift profile
Questions we hear a lot
How often should a crane scale be calibrated?
Do you handle high-capacity dynamometers?
Crane Scales & Dynamometers, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Lab & Analytical Balances
At the precision end of weighing, everything matters: air currents, vibration, temperature, leveling, even how a sample is handled. Analytical and precision balances support QC results, formulations, and records that get audited, so their calibration isn't housekeeping, it's data integrity.
Elite services laboratory and analytical balances across greater Houston, cleaning, adjustment, repair, and NIST-traceable calibration with documentation built for quality systems.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Readings won't stabilize, or repeatability is slipping
- ⚠ Drift with drafts, HVAC cycles, or bench vibration
- ⚠ Corner-load error on the weighing pan
- ⚠ Internal-calibration errors or failed daily checks
- ⚠ QC data trending in ways the process can't explain
What we do
- ✔ Precision calibration with certified weights appropriate to balance class
- ✔ Cleaning, leveling, and environmental setup review
- ✔ Repair and manufacturer-parts coordination
- ✔ Documentation formatted for quality-system and audit files
- ✔ Daily-check weight recommendations and operator guidance
Questions we hear a lot
Do you calibrate on-site or do we ship the balance?
Our balance passes its internal cal but fails our check weight. Why?
Lab & Analytical Balances, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Load Cells, Indicators & Remote Displays
Under every scale is the same anatomy: load cells sensing the force, a junction box summing them, cable carrying the signal, and an indicator turning it into a number. When a scale misbehaves, the fault is almost always in that chain, and finding which link is the craft.
Elite diagnoses and replaces load cells, junction boxes, cabling, indicators, and remote displays across every scale type, with a parts inventory stocked so the fix happens on the first visit, not after a freight wait.
Signs it needs service
- ⚠ Drift, instability, or corner error on any scale type
- ⚠ Readings change in rain or humidity, the junction-box tell
- ⚠ Rodent-chewed or forklift-crushed cable runs
- ⚠ Indicator errors, dead segments, or communication faults
- ⚠ Remote display disagrees with the indicator
What we do
- ✔ Load cell testing, matching, and replacement across capacities
- ✔ Junction box service, moisture remediation, and re-trimming
- ✔ Cable repair and protected re-routing
- ✔ Indicator programming, replacement, and upgrades, including ticketing and data output
- ✔ Remote display and scoreboard service
Questions we hear a lot
Can you match a new load cell to my existing ones?
My indicator is obsolete. Do I need a whole new scale?
Do you sell parts outright?
Load Cells, serviced, calibrated, documented.
Tell us what you run and what it's doing. We'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664The right scale, not the biggest invoice.
Buying weighing equipment shouldn't feel like a negotiation with a catalog. Tell us what you weigh, how often, in what environment, and what's riding on the number, and we'll recommend equipment that fits, quote it clearly, and stand behind it after the install. We service everything we sell, which keeps us honest about what we sell.
Clear quotes. No pressure. No guesswork.
Tell us the job
Capacity, readability, environment, traffic, legal-for-trade or not, five minutes on the phone gets it right.
See real options
We quote across the major brandsCONFIRM, usually a solid-value option and a step-up, with the tradeoffs in plain English.
Get a clear quote
Equipment, delivery, installation, and calibration itemized. The number you approve is the number you pay.
Installed & certified
We deliver, install, calibrate, and hand you a certificate, your new scale starts life provably accurate.
Every category we service, we sell
Browse by equipment type, each page covers what we look for when matching gear to your operation.
Why buy from the team that services it
- ✔ We recommend what holds up, we're the ones who'll be fixing it
- ✔ Installation and first calibration handled, certificate included
- ✔ Local support for the life of the equipment, one call, one team
- ✔ Straight talk when the cheaper option is genuinely good enough
More ways to get equipped
- → Preowned scales, inspected, calibrated, honest about condition
- → Rentals & loaners, short-term needs and repair gap coverage
- → Financing, options on new equipment purchases
- → Parts, when a component is all you need
Buying questions
How fast can you turn around a quote?
Will you tell us if we don't need the expensive option?
Do you install what you sell?
Can you match or beat a quote we already have?
Ready for a straight quote?
Tell us what you weigh and we'll spec it, price it, and stand behind it.
📞 (832) 367-4664Keep weighing while we work.
Some needs are temporary: a physical inventory, a seasonal surge, a project site, a scale in our shop waiting on a part. Rentals and loaners exist so none of those become downtime. Every unit goes out calibrated, with documentation. Accuracy doesn't take a break just because the equipment is borrowed.
Rentals for projects. Loaners for repairs.
Short- & long-term rentals
Calibrated equipment for as long as the job runs:
- ✔ Physical inventory and cycle-count events (counting scales are the classic)
- ✔ Seasonal and peak-volume surges on the dock
- ✔ Project and temporary sites that need weighing now, not a capital request
- ✔ Try-before-you-buy on equipment you're considering
Loaners during repair
When your scale is in our hands, a loaner keeps you moving:
- ✔ Offered when a repair needs parts or shop time, depending on availability
- ✔ Calibrated before it hits your floor, so your numbers stay defensible
- ✔ Swapped out when your unit comes back certified
- ✔ One more reason a parts delay never has to stop production
Rental & loaner questions
Are rental scales calibrated?
What does a rental cost?
Do I automatically get a loaner during a repair?
Can you deliver and set up rental equipment?
Need a scale for a while, not forever?
Check availability early and we'll have it calibrated and ready.
📞 (832) 367-4664The part today, not the shutdown next week.
Most scale failures come down to a component: a load cell, a soaked junction box, a chewed cable, a tired indicator. We keep a large inventory of the parts Houston operations actually burn through, so the fix happens on the first visit, and if you turn your own wrenches, we'll sell you the part outright with a straight answer on compatibility.
The components scales live on
Load cells
Common capacities and mounting styles across scale types, matched and trimmed to work with the cells staying in service.
Indicators & displays
Weight indicators, remote displays, and scoreboards, including upgrades that add ticketing and data output to older platforms.
Junction boxes & cable
Summing boards, enclosures, and cable, the humid-Gulf-Coast failure points we replace more than anything else.
Printers & ticketing
Ticket printers and consumables for truck scale lanes and shipping stations.
Hardware & mounts
Load cell mounts, feet, check rods, and the mechanical bits that quietly cause "electronic" problems when they wear.
Batteries & accessories
Batteries, chargers, ramps, and platform accessories that keep portable and bench equipment in the fight.
Parts questions
Do you sell parts to companies that do their own repairs?
Can you cross-reference an obsolete part?
Is it cheaper to replace a load cell or the whole scale?
Know what you need? Let's check stock.
Call with the make and model and we'll take it from there.
📞 (832) 367-4664Proven equipment. Honest condition. Real savings.
Industrial scales are built to outlive their first owner, which makes clean preowned equipment one of the smartest buys in weighing. Every preowned unit we sell is inspected and calibrated by our own technicians before it leaves, with its condition described the way we'd want it described to us.
Not an auction lot. A serviced machine.
Every preowned unit gets
- ✔ A full inspection by the technicians who repair these for a living
- ✔ NIST-traceable calibration and a certificate before delivery
- ✔ A plain-English condition report, wear, history we know, what to expect
- ✔ The same local service and parts support as new equipment
Smart preowned buys
- ✔ Floor and bench scales for growing operations
- ✔ Backup units for scales your revenue depends on
- ✔ Secondary stations where new-equipment budget isn't justified
- ✔ Replacing a dead scale fast when lead times on new are long
Looking for a deal that still weighs straight?
Tell us what you need, we'll match it against current inventory.
📞 (832) 367-4664Get the equipment now. Spread the cost.
A truck scale or batching system is real capital, and waiting on next year's budget while this year's scale bleeds accuracy costs more than most financing ever will. We offer financing options on equipment purchases so the right machine doesn't have to wait for the right quarter.
Simple, and stated up front
Spec & quote
We spec the equipment and give you the full itemized price, equipment, install, calibration, before financing enters the conversation.
See your options
We walk you through current financing options and terms for your purchase, in writing, with nothing buried.
Equipped & running
Approved, delivered, installed, calibrated, certified, earning its keep while it pays for itself.
Don't let budget timing cost you accuracy.
Ask about financing when you request your quote.
📞 (832) 367-4664Built for the way Houston works
Weighing looks different in a batch plant than it does on a loading dock, different equipment, different failure modes, different paperwork when an auditor shows up. Here's how we fit the industries that keep this region running. Industry list to be confirmed against Elite's actual customer base.CONFIRM
Oil & Gas / Petrochemical
Custody transfer, batching, and inventory weighing where the tolerances are contractual and the audits are real. Off-hours scheduling and site-safety-trained technicians matter here, we bring both.
Common equipment: Tank & Hopper · Truck Scales · Crane Scales
Manufacturing
Formulation, checkweighing, and process control, where a drifting scale becomes off-spec product before anyone notices. Preventive programs keep every device on one documented schedule.
Common equipment: Floor Scales · Bench Scales · Maintenance
Food & Beverage
Recipe accuracy, net-weight compliance, and washdown environments that eat electronics. We calibrate to the standards your labels and auditors depend on, on schedules that respect production windows.
Common equipment: Bench Scales · Tank & Hopper · Calibration
Logistics & Warehousing
Every mis-weight is a freight dispute or a chargeback. Dock scales, counting stations, and dimensioning-adjacent weighing kept fast, accurate, and documented, with loaners when a platform goes down.
Common equipment: Floor Scales · Counting Scales · Rentals
Aggregates & Construction Materials
Truck scales and belt scales are the cash register. Legal-for-trade calibration, fast emergency response when the gate scale dies, and honest guidance on decks and foundations that live outdoors in Gulf weather.
Common equipment: Truck Scales · Belt & Conveyor · Emergency
Agriculture
Harvest doesn't reschedule. Grain, feed, and livestock weighing serviced with seasonal urgency in mind, and rental capacity when the season peaks past what you own.
Common equipment: Truck Scales · Tank & Hopper · Rentals
Recycling & Waste
You buy and sell by the pound, all day, scale drift is margin leak in both directions. Legal-for-trade truck and floor scale calibration, plus fast repair when the inbound lane backs up.
Common equipment: Truck Scales · Floor Scales · Calibration
Labs & Quality Operations
Analytical work where the balance's certificate is part of the data's chain of custody. Precision calibration, environmental setup review, and documentation formatted for quality systems.
Common equipment: Lab Balances · Bench Scales · Calibration
Your industry runs on accurate weight.
Tell us about the operation, we'll fit the service to it.
📞 (832) 367-4664Based in Humble. Serving greater Houston.
Our trucks start the day in Humble and cover the greater Houston metro daily, local matters in this business, and it's the difference between a technician this afternoon and a route stop next week. And when the job calls for it, we go well beyond the metro: Austin, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and across Texas.
Primary zone: greater HoustonCONFIRM
Extended-area work is typically scheduled or project-based, installs, calibration rounds, multi-site programs, and the jobs worth the miles. Emergencies get the fastest response inside the primary zone, but if you're outside it and down, call anyway: we'll give you straight logistics and timing, not a runaround.
Wondering if we cover you?
One call answers it, and gets a tech scheduled while you're at it.
📞 (832) 367-4664Local. Licensed. Accountable to you.
Elite Scales & Systems is an owner-led industrial weighing company based in Humble, Texas, serving the region since 2010CONFIRM. Repair, calibration, sales, and support for greater Houston and job sites across Texas, built on a simple idea: answer the phone, show up, do it right, and put it in writing.
A company large enough to handle it, small enough to really care
That line has been on our materials for years because it's the whole business model. Elite was built by people who'd worked the industry and believed Houston operations deserved a scale company where the person answering the phone knows your site, your equipment, and your name, and where the owner's name is on the work.
Today that's still how it runs: owner Mike Castaneda leads sales and service, LucyCONFIRM keeps the office and scheduling straight, and our Texas-licensed technicians, who regularly complete approved safety and training programs, do the work we're known for: 24-hour expert service on all brands.
And as national networks buy up scale companies across the region, we think being independent and local is becoming more valuable, not less. When you call Elite, you're not a ticket in a queue three states away. You're a neighbor with a scale problem, and we treat it that way.
Trust, in writing
Four promises we can keep
We answer
A real person on the line, including at 2 a.m. when the truck scale dies. No "allow one business day."
We show up
Licensed technicians, stocked trucks, and realistic arrival windows we'd rather beat than break.
We document
Service reports and audit-ready certificates every time, with a copy kept on file at our office.
We talk straight
Repair vs. replace, what it costs, what can wait, the answer we'd want, even when it's a smaller invoice for us.
Faces you'll actually see again
Small team, low turnover, same techs visit after visit, which means they already know your equipment, your dock rules, and where the breaker panel hides. Team photos and short bios to be added here once approved.DRAFT
Want the unfiltered version of who we are? Our Facebook page has years of real job photos, trucks, pits, installs, the occasional mud. It's not polished. That's the point.
What Houston operations say
We'd rather show you proof than adjectives. The reviews below are sample placeholders for layoutSAMPLE. Facebook reviewers recommend us 100%, and this page will carry real Google and customer reviews (with permission) as the new review program ramps up.
"Our truck scale went down mid-shift and Elite had a tech out the same day. Back to loading by the afternoon. These guys actually answer the phone."
"They handle all our calibrations and the paperwork is always audit-ready. We've never had a problem passing an inspection since we switched."
"Straight with us, fair on price, and they know our equipment cold. Exactly the local partner we were looking for."
"Called at 6 a.m. about a dead floor scale, had a loaner on our dock before lunch and our unit back certified two days later."
"Mike walked us out of buying a scale we didn't need and into one that fit. You remember vendors like that."
"Every certificate, every visit, on time. Our auditor asked who we use."
Proof points
Experience it, then tell us how we did.
Every job ends with the same question: did we earn the next call?
📞 (832) 367-4664Talk to a real person
Emergencies get the phone. It's faster, and faster matters when you're down. Everything else, use the form below and tell us what you're working with. Either way, you'll deal with our team in Humble, not a call center.
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📞 Call 24/7 · (832) 367-4664Office
8790 FM 1960 Bypass Rd W, Ste 100B, Humble, TX 77338CONFIRM
Mailing: P.O. Box 3396, Humble, TX 77347
Fax: 281-812-8387
Email: service@elitescalesolutions.comDRAFT
Hours
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sat-Sun: Office closed
Emergencies: 24 hours, 7 days a week, call anytime.
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The questions we answer on the phone every week, written down. If yours isn't here, call it in; the good ones end up on this page.
Most-asked, plainly answered
Do you offer 24/7 emergency service?
What areas do you serve?
What brands do you service?
What's the difference between calibration and certification?
How often should my scales be calibrated?
What does 'legal-for-trade' mean?
Do you sell equipment or just service it?
Can you service scales you didn't install?
Do you work with small businesses, or only big plants?
What should I have ready when I call for service?
Coming to this pageCONFIRM
Short, practical reads, no fluff, written from field experience:
How often should industrial scales be calibrated in Texas?
Usage, environment, and compliance, a working framework instead of a guess.
Coming soonThe real cost of an inaccurate truck scale
What drift actually does to revenue, load by load, with the math.
Coming soonNIST Handbook 44, explained for operators
What the standard covers, what "legal-for-trade" means, and what inspectors check.
Coming soon5 signs your scale needs service before it fails
The early warnings we see on every failed scale, catch them and skip the downtime.
Coming soonRepair or replace? A framework
Age, parts, duty, and the honest break-even, the same logic we use on-site.
Coming soonPreparing for a Weights & Measures inspection
What gets checked, what gets red-tagged, and how to never be surprised.
Coming soonPrivacy Policy & Terms
Plain-language draft for the new site. This page is a working draft and must be reviewed by counsel before launch, especially the SMS/TCPA language.DRAFT
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What we don't do
We don't sell your information. We don't share it except with service providers who help us run the business (e.g., email, scheduling, analytics) under appropriate protections, or where the law requires.
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Content on this site is provided for general information about our services and does not constitute engineering, legal, or compliance advice for your specific situation, calibration intervals, regulatory requirements, and equipment recommendations are confirmed per customer, per device. All service work is governed by the written quote, service report, or agreement covering that work.
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