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Si’Tarc to conduct scales and weights tests

— Photo: M. Periasamy

Launch: R. Mathurbootham (left), Director of Legal Metrology, New Delhi, handing over a certificate of recognition for Small Industries’ Testing and Research Centre (SiTarc) laboratory to V. Sundarrajulu (second left), President of SiTarc, at a function in Coimbatore recently. Jayakumar Ramdass (right), President of SIEMA and K. Ilango (second right), President of CODISSIA, are in the picture.

COIMBATORE: Director of the Legal Metrology Department R. Mathurbootham mooted meetings with manufacturers of weights and measures to know their problems and to address these in the proposed new regulations.

He was here to launch the model approval test of scales and weights at Small Industries Testing and Research Association (Si’Tarc).

Manufacturers should be taken into confidence when new rules were framed so that rules were user-friendly, he said.

Si’Tarc was the first private laboratory in the country recognised by the Department to conduct approval tests for non-automatic weighing instruments, automatic gravimetric filling instrument and discontinuous totalising automatic weighing instruments.

Only five Government laboratories – in Bangalore, Bhubaneshwar, Ahmedabad, Faridabad and Guwahati - conducted the approval tests now.

The laboratory should have guidelines to conduct the tests impartially.

It could advise the manufacturers on the features to be incorporated, he said.

Private laboratories that applied for recognition would be approved depending on their standards. NABL accreditation was one of the criteria. With Si’Tarc getting the recognition, manufacturers in the Southern States would benefit.

He told presspersons later that the bill to amend the Weights and Measures Act was likely to be passed in the forthcoming session of the Parliament.

The new bill proposed that weights and measures used by the industry for in-house purposes and weights and measures for exports would not have regulations. Only those imported would have regulations.

Jayakumar Ramdass, president of the Southern India Engineering Manufacturers’ Association, said the cost of testing would be reasonable and Si’Tarc had a user-friendly team.

K. Ilango, president of the Coimbatore District Small Industries’ Association, said the electronic scales had several applications. With testing facilities at Si-Tarc the time taken for manufacturers to get the approval would be reduced. G. Rajendran, president of Coimbatore Industrial Infrastructure Association, said it had also invested at Si’Tarc for improving the testing facilities.

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