C. I. Sales & Service Pty Ltd

Balances for semi-micro and analytical weighing

C.I Sales and Service have a wide variety of balances such as analytical, moisture analysers, personal health, compact and precision weighing balances. We provide full after scales assistance and have many years experience selling, hiring, servicing and calibrating scales to research, medical quality control and product development laboratories and wide variety of manufacturing sectors including pharmaceutical, food and petrochemical industries.

In AND range, the GH series is one of our most popular analytical balances. It comes with many outstanding features including draft proof barriers a large weighing chamber and, a wide weighing range with 0.01mg resolution, which means high accuracy and rapid response times whatever the weight. Other features include Good Laboratory Practice compliance for product traceability. The Auto Power On, Memory and Internal Calibration functions help keep productivity high. Contact C.I. Sales and Service for expert advise about the most suitable product for your weighing accuracy needs.

Scales for industrial use

If you require scales for production, warehouse, freight or need trade approved scales whether you need a waterproof, intrinsically safe, portable, bench top or platform scales C.I. Sales and Service can help you find the right set of scales for you. C.I. Sales and service have many years of experience in selling and calibrating scales to retailers, educational institutions and industrial sectors.

The SK-WP series is a very affordable popular product. Its full digital calibration and wide angle Liquid Crystal Display means it's easy to read and operate. This lightweight, battery operated model features a splash proof (IP66) keyboard and display unit and Auto Power Off and it's trade approved making it ideal for use in a variety of location including markets, food preparation or production areas, reducing the need for additional space consuming scales.

Retail Scales

Wether you're a distributor, a courier company, a deli, grocer or butcher C.I. Sales and Service have a range of scales specifically designed with percentage functions, Our retail scales are ideal for small, medium and large businesses alike. There is a wide range of compact, lightweight, portable, waterproof and track scales. All of our retail scales carry the Weights and Measures approval stamp so your business can start trading as soon as they arrive.

The SG series, available in 6, 15, and 30Kg capacities, has proven to be a real hit with busy retailers. This price computing scale has a durable stainless steel pan, it is shock and has a splash proof keyboard and display. It features dual weighing range for increased weighing accuracy and has a storage facility for up to 12 different price selections. Its large wide angle Liquid Crystal Display gives you faster check out times increasing your business's efficiency and that means lesss waiting time for customers and increased profitability for you.

Health Care, Personal and Specialty Scales

C.I. Sales and service also have a wide selection of scales for health care providers including Personal and bathroom scales, digital Chair scales, Wheel chair scales and bed weighing scales. The bed weighing scales and wheelchair scales are lightweight and easy to store. The new stowaway trolley design of the bed weighing scales makes them ideal for busy hospital and nursing homes where storage space is hard to find. These truly need to be seen to understand this great compact design.

Enquire about our low profile UC-321 personal health scales with 150kg capacity and 50g accuracy. Other features include body mass index, weight diary software and bluetooth wireless connection so downloading straight to your computer has never been easier. Suitable for both busy health care professionals and the novice weight watcher. The auto power off feature ensures battery life will last for around 2000 measurements saving you money.

Weight Indicators

If your business needs a weight indicator then C.I. Sales and Service can help with all your product batching, Bagging, filling, emptying, check weighbridge operations. We supply basic low speed, single product batching, bagging, filling, emptying, check weighing and control applications and weighbridge operations. We supply basic low speed, single product batching indicators, while others have counting, and recipe functions. C.I. Sales and Service also supply advanced, very high speed, stain and pressure measurement and monitoring indicators. Other weighing systems include both static weighing and motion weighing and in motion weighing for conveyor control systems. C.I. Sales and Service have a wide variety of indicators suitable for use in hostile environments such as damp or dusty or corrosive environments. C.I. Sales and Service can customise indicator configurations to suit your specific needs. Enquire about our trade approved and battery operated indicators.

Masses

Our Masses are manufactured in Germany and are pf the highest quality, conforming to new non-magnetic properties required in European & international markets and this way ensuring true accuracy. C.I. Sales and Service in laboratory and calibrate E1, E2, F1 and F2 (Stainless steel masses), M1 (Nickel plated and Brass masses). C.I. Sales and Service holds NATA accreditation to carry out the necessary certification on masses to least uncertainties of measurement correctly down to 10y gram, which are tested in our temperature controlled in laboratory and returned with the utmost efficiency.

Helpful Hint: To comply with NATA certification requirements working stets & individual weights e.g. brass and cast iron masses should be calibrated annually. Stainless steel and Nickel Plated masses only need to be calibrated every three year in order to comply with the utmost efficiency.

Load Cells

Whatever the job, C.I. Sales and Service have the load cell for your business. We have a wide range of load cells including single point, waterproof, up to (IP68) compression canister type and shear beam load cells suitable for replacement and use with platform, hopper and bagging scales through to weighbridge applications. Contact us to find out more about our range. We deal with top of the range load cells sourced in both Australia and New Zealand and cost effective load cells from China to handle all your needs, including trade approved, compact, tension, compression and robust design applications. C.I. Sales and Service's load cells are suitable for replacements in light, medium and larger capacity weighing systems.

Analytical Equipment

The range of products supplied by C.I. Sales and Service has been expanding rapidly over the last few years to keep up with our customer's demands. We now supply suitable for use in laboratories, manufacturing, educational and retail environments, health care provider settings, restaurants and clubs. Our products include an extensive range of analytical, precision and industrial weighing scales, calibrated weighing masses, drying and vacuum ovens and indicators, muffle furnaces, autoclaves and other sterilising equipment, hydrometers, flow meters, pH and conductivity meters, thermometers, heating blocks and data loggers, pressure, vacuum and temperature gauges.

C.I. Sales and Service is the sole distributor of equipment manufactured by J.P. selecta, one of Europe's largest manufacturers of quality laboratory and testing products including glassware, instrumentation and other specialised equipment for sampling sterilising and storing and analysing. Many of the instrumentation products manufactured at J.P. Selecta combine the latest technology and innovated European designs. C.I. Sales and Service staff can also help you find those difficult, hard to find products that are only purchased occasionally.

Disposable and Laboratory Consumables

C.I Sales and Service have now introduced an impressive range of laboratory consumables. Included among our disposable products you'll find laboratory solvents, reagents and cleaning chemicals. We also have an extensive range of safety ware, from disposable gloves, facemasks, hairnets, and aprons to reflective jackets for out door work. More recently, we have added to our stock a complete list of Australian made paper towelling and other tissue products, suitable for, the office, surgery, laboratory, production and retail environments. Whatever you needs, we have the product to suit you.

Brabender Measurement and Control Systems

Brabender measurement and Control Systems are used within both the food and Plastics industries. They are designed for production trouble shooting, quality control, research and development of cereals, grains and plastics. Instruments are highly efficient and accurate, some can analyse up to twelve samples at a time with <0.1 accuracy. Brabender instrument only require a small sample size of approximately 10g where other instruments may require several kilogram in order to achieve the same level of accuracy, saving you time and money, the results gained are equivalent to commercial production facility. Brabender instruments are distributed and serviced in Australia solely by C.I. Sales and Service. Our highly factory trained technicians can install, service and arrange the delivery of spare parts to keep your instruments in top condition. All products, parts and services are 100% guaranteed, providing you with full after sales assistance whenever necessary.

Brabender Instrumentation

Brabender have an impressive range of Instrumentation designed specifically for the flour milling and baking industries. These instruments are of particular use to quality control laboratories used throughout the world. Brabender instruments replicate commercial Production results in relation to gains, willed flours and baked products within a laboratory environment. The instruments extrapolate important raw product information before actual production commences, allowing you to compensate for quality factor that would otherwise be out of your control. Brabender food instrumentation includes sample receptors, preparers, extruders and other quality control instruments. Among Brabender measurement and control Systems are plastics and food extruders, Laboratory Mills, Moisture Testers, Farinograph, Extensographs, Amylographs, Maturographs, Viscograph and Drive Units. Brabender Instruments run on Windows Software for convenient data recording, storage and analysis.

Brabender Maturograph

It can show aspects such as proving and baking behaviour, the effects of additives, improving agents and other ingredients, throughout the entire baking process from initial mixing to the rising achieved during oven baking. The Maturograph measures the charge in volume and elasticity of dough during proving. The instrument records the individual stages of proving and shows characteristics such as proving stability, final proving time, and dough level.

Brabender Viscograph

The rheological properties can be determined for varying thickening capacities including hot or cold viscosities with the viscograph. Information relating to the initial, maximum and gelatinisation viscosities, holding period the viscosity at the end of the cooling period may all be achieved with the Brabender Viscograph. Even special temperature stable starches may be assessed using a Brabender viscograph.

Brabender (Rapid-Micro) Visco-Amylo-Graph

Brabender have designed instruments that generate a combination of information, thus further reducing test times, making them the ideal instrument for use in the development of new recipes and products or for quality control purposes. The Brabender visco-amylo-graph is suitable for testing starches and flour and may be used in the food, paper, textile and chemical industries. The Micro-visco-amylo-graph can measure product extrusion influences, enzyme and diastatic activity, gelatinisation properties of flour and starches.

Brabender Drive Units

Brabender drive units are similar to a pilot plant and are ideal for laboratory use. A drive unit is able to simulate important production processes including compounding and mixing properties of flours and dough. This enables you to assess the product's baking potential before commercial production commences.

Farinograph-(E)

The Brabender Farinograph is the instrument of choice when it comes to measuring the water absorption and mixing characteristics of wheat, rye flour and many other products. The Farinograph can also determine aspects such as the flour development time, stability and degree of softening. Determining the flour quality and its processing characteristics is a basic essential demand of the baking and milling industries for ensuring optimum and uniform flour qualities in manifold baking and noodle products. A Brabender Farinograph Instrument may also be used for special applications such as production and research of chocolate, chewing gum and fish along with other products. The 32-bit Windows software makes using the Farinograph easy, even for novice users. The menu guides you through the test results. All test parameters, measuring values and results can easily be used in other applications including word processing and spreadsheet programs. The new Farinograph E now runs a 10, 50 or 300g bowl. If wheat hardness results are required simply attach a Brabender hardness test to the machine for instant testing and results.

Software for Brabender Instruments

Brabender instruments use 32bit Windows software for convenient data recording, analysis and interpretation, presentation or storage. The database format allows the information to be used in other applications, thus, data may be printed or transmitted electronically to all relevant colleagues.

Milling Equipment

Sample receptors are designed to clean and grade grains before the milling process. Sample preparers generally mill grain such as wheat, rye barley and large kernels such as corn. Brabender also manufacture other laboratory milling equipment for fibrous material including hay, tobacco, and tough materials such as leather, fur and plastics may also be materials for analysis. Rigid material such as pasta, coco shells and charcoal may also be milled.

Brabender mini cleaners and graders

The Labofix combines all the processing steps necessary to clean and grade soft wheat, rye, barley, corn, sorghum and hard wheat, grass and vegetables. Brabender Mills prepare production - equivalent. Brabender Labofix mini-cleaner prepares samples for further analysis including properties of varied grain types and determines information relating to yield potential, obtain specific grain properties such as moisture and gluten content and baking qualities. The Brabender Labofix is designed to accurately and repeatedly replicates production conditions using only a small sample size of approximately 50g. The labofix has several other advantages including dust free and low noise operation. Use the labofix to clean and grade samples from flour, hulling and oil millers, agricultural co-ops, silos, seed processing plants and malt houses.

Glutograph

Testing the quality of wet and dry gluten, as never been easier using the new compact state of the art Glutograph. Separate quality control of wet and dry gluten is of more and more importance as a flour additive. Achieving results additive. Achieving results about the stretching and elastic properties of wash wet and of dry gluten mixed with water to dough can help you determine the suitability of flour for noodle production or to gain the recognition of drying and heat damage on flour and dry gluten.

Moisture Testers

The current range of Brabender moisture analysers are fully automated and accept 10 or 12 samples at a time with <0.1% result accuracy. The analyses use a gentle and uniform drying procedure to provide precise results. Samples are weighed efficiently on a high precision electronic balance mounted below the drying chamber reducing possible errors and eliminating the need for cooling and desiccators. The software-aided operation includes a touch screen display and control panel capable of accurate interpretation and presentation of results. This instrument can carry out continuous testing and handles up to twelve samples at any one time. It is the ultimate instrument for any quality control department or direct replacement for the NIR units.

Extensograph E

The Brabender Extensograph E shows the influence of flour additives such as ascorbic acid, enzymes and emulsifiers that can create different demands on the flour quality. The Brabender Extensograph E is the standard instrument for measuring important flour qualities such as dough stretching behaviour, baking characteristics, the influence of additives, and optimum rheological properties. Water absorption, mixing characteristics, development time and stability are other aspects measured on the Extensograph E. The Extensograph E has an ergonomic design, has a fully electronic measuring system and goes hand in hand with a Brabender Farinograph. The Newly designed Extensograph E is now fully computerised, whilst it don't make coffee, it has some amazing new upgrades that must be seen to believe.

Amylograph-micro

The Brabender Amylograph can be used for is used to assess the commencement of gelatinisation, maximum gelatinisation, and the temperature of gelatinisation in wheat, rye, rice flour and enables. Enabling you to the baking properties of flour, which depends largely on the gelatinisation of starch. As such the assessment of special flours is possible. The results achieved correlate extremely well with the standard assessment method despite reduced measurement times and sample weights. Results may be compared with up to ten tests allowing you to assess trends and irregularities for production control and checking.

Brabender Food Extruders

Brabender range of food extruders includes sturdy, extruders includes sturdy, directly driven extruder systems, single or twin screw and conical twin screw measuring extruders in food Quality Control laboratories ensure optimum production conditions and constant high quality products. Attaining extrusion values also allows you to assess product recipes throughout the development of new product formulation. Typical applications on a Brabender Extruder include product viscosity checks, product forming and texturisation performance, gelatinisation and plastification of starches, testing of rheological properties help determine the blinding properties of active ingredients and flavours to snack foods. Brabender Extruders have powerful and yet easy to Windows software to assist in the detection of production trends and irregularities using numerical or graphical forms.

Brabender Plastics Analysis

Brabender produce a series of instruments designed for the manufacture and analysis of plastics. If you need to simulate production realistically on a laboratory scale for production or research trouble shooting a Brabender Modular System will allow you to control and develop raw materials whatever the extrusion task. The values measured include torque, melt temperature and melt pressure, (screw back force is also available on request). Other variables that may be obtained from Brabender instrumentation includes shear stress; shear rate and viscosity of polymers. Brabender instruments continuously records data and diagrams for easy interpretation to a world known standard.

Realistic Production Simulation

Brabender have a range of interchangeable extruders and Extrusiograph measuring heads for use with a Brabender Plasti-Corder, Lab-Station or Plastograph. The range of extrusion instruments, are designed to asses the extrudability of assess the extrudability of polymers for production analysis and forcasting, trouble-shooting, and for research and development purposes.

Viscosity

Brabender extruders obtain reliable information about the processibility of polymers. The advantage of using a Brabender Instrument records all measurements continuously. Brabender evaluate the Kinematics viscosity with a rheometric round capillary die head and with rheometic slot capillary die heads. This will allow manufacturers to simulate production on a small scales avoiding unnecessary profit wasting.

Aquatrac + Moisture meter for Plastics

As with the previous Brabender Aquatrac instrument, the Brabender Aquatrac + moisture analyser measures the moisture content by forcing the water out using a temperature created vacuum. The amount of hydrogen generated (CaH2) reagent, is measured using the pressure created during the reaction. I this way, all interfering parameters, such as humidity of the ambient air, is excluded from the results. The measured values have been according to the Karl-Fischer method making the Aquatrac + the absolute moisture measuring instrument for plastics. The new Aquatrac + comes complete with a processor-controlled program, LCD display, a multilingual, menu-driven application program that leads the measuring procedure. Additionally, both humidity and the temperature within the reaction vessel may be displayed. Humidity values may be any time interval.

Screw Backforce Measurement

Screw Backforce is the mainly the result of melt pressure the result of melt pressure in front of the die and the effective cross section of screw. The pressure that builds up in the extruder barrel depends on the resistance within the barrel. This resistance is dependent on a number of variables including the die in use, the speed, output and the melt viscosity of the polymer.

Software

The Windows software allows you to evaluate your measuring results and diagrams to keep you informed about the progress and evaluation of the test results. All data may be stored and used with other commercial Office programs and is a fully integrated control system.

Additional Equipment

In addition to plastics extruders and extrusiographs Brabender offer a range of instruments designed for assessing a variety of other tests of interest to manufacture and extrusion of plastics, which includes the Filtratest is designed for use in testing the purity of purity of the polymer can assist manufacturers to work out technical issues whatever experienced during production.

The Film Blowing unit comes complete with blower and adjustable roll assembly for blowing, cooling, taking off and winding up extruder films.

The Univex Take-Off System is used for simultaneously taking off, cooling and smoothing and winding up flat films and may customise for upon request.