Companies

As the UK’s longest-established onboard weighing company, we have provided customers with top-of-the range onboard weighing systems for over 22 years and have produced our own waste container weighing and ID systems since 1999.

Vishay PM Onboard is the market leader in the design, manufacture and service of onboard vehicle weighing systems for wheeled vehicles ranging from vans and light commercials to heavy trucks and shovel loaders.

As the UK’s longest-established onboard weighing company, we have provided customers with top-of-the range onboard weighing systems for over 22 years and have produced our own waste container weighing and ID systems since 1999. Vishay PM Onboard is BSI registered and is accredited by National Weights and Measures for the accuracy and precision of our weighing instrumentation.

Formerly known as PM Onboard we were acquired by Vishay Intertechnology in April 2007. Vishay PM Onboard’s head office is still based in Bradford and houses the company’s specialised departments such as electronics, R&D, software, sales and service. We have additional sales and service offices in Ireland, France, Holland and Belgium and agents in many other countries around the world.

Vishay PM Onboard is part of the Vishay Systems business of Vishay Measurements Group. Vishay Measurements Group develops, manufactures, and markets components, instruments, and systems for a wide variety of test and measurement applications. Vishay strain gage products include electrical resistance strain gages for both stress analysis testing and transducer manufacturing applications, as well as strain gage instrumentation. Vishay PhotoStress® coatings and instruments use a unique optical process to detect stress and other physical forces. Vishay transducer products include load cells, force transducers and instruments. Vishay also manufactures, installs and services systems for weighing and force measurement and control. These include systems with transducers and instruments to control process weighing in food, chemical, and pharmaceutical plants; force measurement systems to control web tension in paper mills, roller force in steel mills and cable tension in winch controls; on-board weighing systems that are installed in logging and waste-handling trucks; and special scale systems for aircraft weighing and portable truck weighing. Vishay Measurements Group is part of Vishay Intertechnology.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc, a Fortune 1,000 Company listed on the NYSE (VSH), is one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors (diodes, rectifiers, transistors, and optoelectronics and selected ICs) and passive electronic components (resistors, capacitors, inductors, sensors, and transducers). These components are used in virtually all types of electronic devices and equipment, in the industrial, computing, automotive, consumer, telecommunications, military, aerospace, and medical markets. Its product innovations, successful acquisition strategy, and ability to provide "one-stop shop" service have made Vishay a global industry leader. Vishay can be found on the Internet at http://www.vishay.com.

Vishay PME France SARL, is based in Chavenay, near Paris. It is the sales and service operation for weighing equipment in Southern Europe and provides an installation and maintenance service to its customers, primarily in the waste management sector.

Vishay WCS B.V. is based in the Netherlands and Vishay WCS N.V. is based in Belgium, together they operate within the Benelux - Luxembourg market.

Vishay PM (Ireland) Ltd is based in Dublin and has been specifically created to service the growing Irish BinWeigh market.

Vishay WCS NL are based in Belgium.