• Transport and infrastructure

Strainstall: 50 years of cutting edge innovation

Strainstall celebrates 50 years at the forefront of developing innovative monitoring solutions for its global customers.

From a small start in the 1960s, the company has grown to be the leader in product development in the monitoring industry and has secured its reputation for specialising in the development of bespoke and integrated solutions to suit specific customer requirements.

Today Strainstall is an internationally recognised brand with bases in Dubai, Malaysia and Singapore and a reputation for specialising in the design and manufacture of load cells, strain gauges and integrated monitoring systems which are proven to perform year after year in hostile and hazardous environments.

Its teams have been involved in some of the biggest and most significant engineering projects in the world.

Strainstall's engineers capture and analyses data on parameters such as displacement, inclination, temperature, vibration, strain and water levels to provide a real-time overview of events enabling them to realise optimum performance.

Another area of expertise is in the development of cutting edge monitoring and control solutions for global offshore industries, and Strainstall is  a leading manufacturer of bespoke load monitoring systems for offshore environments.

Did you know?

• Every single nuclear power station in the UK has some sort of Strainstall gauge or product installed on it
• There is Strainstall equipment in the Eurotunnel
• The team enjoyed a six-year monitoring contract on the tallest man-made structure ever build - the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai
• There are Strainstall sensor systems on both the Forth Road Bridge and its successor, the new Queensferry Crossing
• Strainstall has been involved with some small but interesting jobs like weighing jam, designing a strain gauge fork to allow quality control on tins of dog food, and supplying the load cells which measure the nitrogen poured into a can of Guinness to enable the widget to give it a draft beer fizz!