Shering Weighing - History
The Shering Weighing Group Ltd was founded in 1946 by the late Ernest Shering. Integrity and honesty were, and remain, the core values on which this family owned company is run. During the early years the company focused on manufacturing small mechanical scales and servicing most makes of industrial weighing equipment, including mechanical weighbridges.
The current Chairman and Managing Director, Douglas M Shering, assumed the role of Managing Director at the age of 21 following the untimely death of his father in 1971.
The following few years proved to be very difficult but by the end of the decade Shering were emerging as "manufacturers of the World's finest weighbridges" followed by unprecedented growth both in the domestic and global market.
With a new team in place Douglas Shering embarked on a strategy that led the company to focus its strengths in weighbridge products, developing plans that revolutionised the industry world wide.
Rather than follow the normal route of the weighing industry which was to purchase all the various component modules from different suppliers around the globe, causing logistical as well as service and support problems, Shering's philosophy reversed that trend by bringing design, manufacture and service all in house.
This new direction gave Shering unique flexibility and capability that was unmatched anywhere, enabling them to control their own destiny and set new innovative product trends that were both revolutionary and of high quality, bringing exceptional operational and financial benefits to customers.
During the 1980s Shering's revolutionary products strategy was quickly recognised by many weighbridge manufacturers throughout the world leading to several license agreements being signed in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Indonesia and the Philippines. This allowed licensees to incorporate Shering patented technologies, giving them significant technological advantages that were previously not available to them.
In the early 1990s Shering opened a brand new purpose built headquarters and manufacturing facility in Dunfermline, Scotland, equipped with state of the art technology to cope with growing demand for their weighbridge products.
Further recognition of Shering's unique status came when we won the Grant Thornton and British Airways Business Achievement in Europe Award as well as being one of the first weighing companies in the world to achieve ISO9001 quality accreditation.
Shering were also the very first company to achieve European Weights & Measures approval under the new OIML R 76 regulations, enhancing our reputation for being the most innovative and forward thinking weighbridge company on the market.