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New Zealand’s national symbol is in decline. Our laboratory balances are helping to ensure that kiwi numbers increase. Operation Nest Egg (O.N.E.) collects and incubates kiwi eggs so chicks are protected until they are big enough to fight off predators.

Sweet but no sugar please, plus long-lasting taste and the right consistency. To create perfect chewing gum, you need butyl rubber, flavorings, sweeteners, and the necessary expertise. Products from METTLER TOLEDO are also a must.

Within a matter of four years, the first helicopter rolled off Marenco Swisshelicopter AG's production line. Weighing technology is helping to keep its operating costs to a minimum.

Precision balances are often used by private hobbyists to weigh beetle larvae. This may sound very strange: First of all what hobbyist is involved with beetles, and what beetles are we talking about here?

In 1993, brothers Daniel and Markus Freitag made their first bag from used truck tarpaulins. Since then, Freitag has become an urban fashion label in Switzerland and beyond, and now produces about 400,000 bags and accessories annually. An essential aid in their work is a special METTLER TOLEDO scale.

Zoo Zurich uses a tailor-made weighing platform from METTLER TOLEDO to monitor their elephants' weight. The scale has already passed the crucial test, as all the animals have already been weighed. Despite this, the animals remain a little suspicious when the plate over the weighing cells moves a couple of millimeters.

Cooking with pipettes? Not so crazy in molecular gastronomy. Learn how top chef Max Eichmann, serves French cuisine with molecular accents at his restaurant in Switzerland. Max has been putting his trust in multi-channel pipettes from Rainin METTLER TOLEDO for over a decade.

Running is one of the healthiest sports of all. Despite the trend in recent years toward running barefoot, good shoes are still indispensable for most runners. To ensure their quality, METTLER TOLEDO products are used.

Scales are used to determine the weight of an aircraft. But that is not all. Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered aircraft and a 270-ton Airbus have something in common: they both need scales to achieve stable, balanced flight.

We took a trip to the circus to establish just how well our products perform under harsh conditions. So just how precise was the balance’s weighing results during the elephant test?  Take a look at the test result video now..

Around 400,000 people and 20,000 companies and universities worldwide supported the Apollo program at its height. Among them was Mettler Instrument Corporation of Greifensee near Zurich.