Driver Southall

Driver Southall designs and manufactures inspection and weighing machinery: checkweighers, metal detectors, combined checkweigher and metal detector systems, X-ray inspection systems, industrial bench scales and vibratory conveyors. The machines identify product defects and contaminants. Services include service contracts, checkweigher and metal detector calibrations and validations, spare parts and training courses.

Customers are manufacturers in the food, packaging and pharmaceutical industries. The website also lists chemical, agricultural and automotive as application sectors for its weighing scales. Revenue comes from machine sales, spare parts and service contracts. Case studies published on the site include Masteroast Coffee, Eley and Knighton Foods.

The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Burntwood, Staffordshire, where its machines are fabricated and designed. Driver Southall became part of the Unitech Group in December 2010. Its heritage traces to Southall and Smith and Geo Driver and Sons, which the website describes as over 100 years old. The company announced a partnership with Dini Argeo and exhibits at the PPMA Total Exhibition.

Product: Checkweighers, metal detectors, combination systems, X-ray inspection systems, industrial weighing scales and vibratory conveyors, with service contracts and spare parts.