The Cachapuz
A global weighing company, leader in creating value, innovation and accuracy
Portugal’s leading company in weighing equipment design and solutions, tailored to each customer’s needs, with cutting-edge technology, with one-hundred years of market experience in the weighing sector and an operation based on social and environmental responsibility.

Introduction
The name Cachapuz is 4 centuries-old (its name dates to 1694, there are documents to support this), having started its activity as ‘Casa do Antigo Cachapuz’ [House of the Old Cachapuz], a reference to that ancestry, dedicated to the sale of ‘cutlery, weapons and scales’ and a ‘bold’ venture in goods import! It initiated its industrial activity in 1920, building wooden decimal scales, and in 1934, it constructed its first weighbridge.
Throughout its almost 100 years of history as a weighing equipment manufacturer, it has been a product and process innovator, and a decisive and disruptive contributor to the progress of the weighing sector.
As a brand that creates cutting-edge integrated systems that optimise all logistics processes involving weighing, Cachapuz’s purpose is to become a facilitator of each customer’s business, adding value as experts in the weighing and logistics area.
Our purpose

Vision
A Cachapuz solution in each organization
Mission
The most innovative and technologically advanced partner for automated weighing systems
Values
Rigor
Respect
Passion
Cocreation of value
Positive impact
Caring for the future
Inclusion and Learning
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Global presence
In 2011 the process, which had started in 1997, is concluded: the total acquisition of the capital of Cachapuz, by one of the world’s largest groups dedicated to weighing, the Italian group Bilanciai.
Cachapuz’s integrated weighing systems are part of the operation of logistic weighing processes on 5 continents. They are internationally proven solutions that reflect an ability to adapt to specific geographic, cultural, community and operating styles to understand, create and adapt the best possible offer.

Bilancial Group Companies
The Bilanciai Group brand was created in 1999, covering all weighing areas through its own industrial brands. With this capability, the Bilanciai Group companies are prepared to provide comprehensive weighing solutions, responding to all customer needs.
Quality Brands
Every brand and every company in the Group represents and guarantees quality in every sector of activity, from industrial weighing to precision and laboratory weighing. In recognition of Cachapuz’s technological capacity, the Bilanciai Group has concentrated its Technological Competence Center in Portugal with the aim of designing and implementing software and automation solutions that complement and add value to the equipment produced and marketed by the other companies in the group.
Several companies, one philosophy: integrated and continuous research and development that result in products and services geared towards the specific needs of the customer.