Digital Salter Scales

The history of Salter and how Salter digital scales now fit into the company’s offering

Salter was originally a UK brand that set up in the 1760s supplying domestic weighing scales. Salter is now a global player with a really diverse product range, producing much more than just scales, but the majority of the scales it produces now are stylish Salter digital scales.

Richard Salter was a spring maker from Bilston who started the Salter business by making 'pocket steelyards', which are a bit like fishermen's scales. Little did he know that even these fishermen scales would be modernised into Salter digital scales two hundred and fifty years on.

In 1825, Richard Salter’s nephew, George Salter took over and set up a manufacturing business for Salter. This was the first step towards the Salter digital scales products we know today, as it was then that they started producing on a big scale. Even though Salter was making all kinds of scales, including the first bathroom scale, we doubtful even George fathomed bathroom Salter digital scales! Salter soon diversified out of scales and started to produce items as diverse as coin operated machines.

In the 1900s Salter went from strength to strength remarkably, was still owned by the same Salter family that set up the original Salter Scales business. It still stays true to its scale roots, as scales, albeit Salter digital scales, make up the majority of its core business, which is a great thing: Salter digital scales are the best in the business.

Finally, in 1972 Salter was bought by by Staveley Industries Plc and was split into separate subsidiaries, housewares and industrial etc but as we say, digital Salter scales are still in there in housewares, but they also make Salter digital scales for industrial purposes too.