By Joe Hadsall
jhadsall@joplinglobe.com
WEBB CITY, Mo. — This Friday, Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Co. of Webb City will weigh in on a cable-television show.
Company officials say they already know the episode of “How It’s Made” will be good.
“The local Cable One office provided us with an advance copy,” said Jonathan Sabo, advertising manager for the company. “We screened it for management, and there was quite a bit of cheering and clapping going on.”
The episode of the documentary series will air at 8 p.m. Friday on the Science Channel. It will feature the manufacture of one of the company’s 70-foot-long truck scales, right after a segment on induction cooktops.
Director Francois Senecal brought a production crew to Webb City in February. It spent three days filming production of the truck scale, a food scale and a physician’s scale.
Sabo said the segment about Cardinal Scale will feature only the truck scale. Segments on the other two scales are set to air in the spring of 2009, he said.
“It begins on a microscopic level, with the creation of the string gauges that reside in the load cells,” Sabo said. “It shows the welding process, powder-paint process and the final assembly, where the finished scale is shown.”
Sabo said the show is shown worldwide and translated into more than three dozen languages. Once the show airs on the Science Channel, it will be syndicated for broadcast on other channels.
“The producers did a marvelous job with the video,” Sabo said. “We can’t wait for it to be shown on a world stage.”
Want to watch?
The episode of “How It’s Made” featuring Cardinal Scale will be shown at 8 p.m. Friday on the Science Channel (Channel 325 on Cable One; Channel 245 on Mediacom; Channel 103 on Suddenlink). Viewers without digital cable may watch segments on the company’s Web site, www.cardinalscale.com, after the airing.
