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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

31 years in business - Unique Scale balances service and success

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Come Au­gust 2, 2014, fam­i­ly-owned Unique Scale Ser­vice Ltd will be in busi­ness for 31 years. The Coro­na­tion Street, Aranguez-based com­pa­ny sells and ser­vices pre­ci­sion top-load­ing bal­ances, con­crete and batch weighers, drum-fill­ing scales, truck scales, crane scales, floor scales, ware­house scales, su­per­mar­ket scales.

The list is end­less.

Unique Scale was start­ed by Wellse­ly and Jo-Ann Nan­doo as a ser­vice com­pa­ny, opt­ing 15 years lat­er to al­so sell scales. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, Wellse­ly passed away sud­den­ly in 2011.

His man­ag­ing di­rec­tor's role has been as­sumed by their daugh­ter Fran­cis­ca Nan­doo-Hamid, 34. Jo-Ann is the gen­er­al man­ag­er.

"Fran­cis­ca came in 11 years ago. When he died, I wasn't in­ter­est­ed any more. The busi­ness is now hers," Jo-Ann said.

Nan­doo-Hamid in­ter­ject­ed to say, "If I'm out, she has to be here."

While she at­tend­ed St Au­gus­tine Pri­vate School, Nan­doo-Hamid worked on week­ends and dur­ing hol­i­days as a re­cep­tion­ist, did sales, ac­count­ing and can han­dle ser­vices.

"I was Dad­dy's sec­re­tary," Nan­doo-Hamid said.

The orig­i­nal base for the com­pa­ny was at 21 Newalloville, Mis­sion Road, San Juan, where the fam­i­ly lived. The garage was the work­shop, which was con­vert­ed in­to an of­fice. Five years lat­er, they shift­ed op­er­a­tions to 36 Newalloville and hired a sec­re­tary. Unique Scale now has 12 em­ploy­ees and plans to hire two more this month be­cause it wants to strength­en its ser­vice team.

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