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          precision analytical instruments used in scientific re-
        
        
          search and quality control labs across different indus-
        
        
          tries such as pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and
        
        
          petrochemical. As a representative of Mettler Toledo,
        
        
          Santos’ company proceeded to provide installation,
        
        
          calibration, and servicing of its equipment. But, as
        
        
          Santos admits, “This was not part of the plan, at all.
        
        
          The Mettler Toledo equipment side was not part of our
        
        
          original plan. We were going to be a small, basic label-
        
        
          ing supplier.” But taking advantage of this unforeseen
        
        
          opportunity allowed TLC to expand its product and ser-
        
        
          vice offerings.
        
        
          Some of the Mettler Toledo products that TLC dis-
        
        
          tributes, calibrates, and services, today, for its retail
        
        
          customers include: price computing scales, counter
        
        
          scales, checkout scales, self service scales, hanging
        
        
          scales, wrap-weigh-price labeling systems, and high
        
        
          speed checkweighers, which are used to inspect the
        
        
          weight of products moving at high speed on a pack-
        
        
          aging line. Its industrial weighing solutions include:
        
        
          counting scales, floor scales, wheeled scales, load
        
        
          cells, weigh bridges and truck scales, bench and con-
        
        
          tact scales, and weighing terminals. In addition the
        
        
          company also supplies a wide range of Mettler Toledo
        
        
          laboratory and analytical instruments.
        
        
          TLC also supplies and services the following Avery
        
        
          Dennison Monarch equipment: handheld, pricing en-
        
        
          coders used in retail and warehouse management;
        
        
          handheld tag attachers and fasteners; scanners and