Control Magazine Awards K-Tron the Reader’s Choice Award for Best Inline Weighing Systems

PITMAN, NJ (May 23, 2007) - Control Magazine, a Putman Media trade journal serving the process automation market, recently awarded K-Tron their 2007 Readers Choice Award for “Inline Weighing Systems.

Twenty percent of the readers responding to the Control Magazine digital survey named K-Tron as the best supplier of Inline Weighing Systems. Rice Lake Weighing Systems came in second with 15%, Hardy Instruments third with 6% and Acrison and Siemens Energy & Automation both had 5%.

According to Putman Publications, the selection process is entirely in the hands of the readers. Their product preferences are based on real-world field experiences, without any prompting from Putman. Putman is convinced that results from this type of unaided survey are more respected by the technology users and specifiers in the process control user community than any other product award model.