Acculab has cease business operations effective January 2011. Acculab was part of the Sartorius Group and victim of deleveraging strategy for Sartorius' reorganization in 2010. Acculab offered low cost inexpensive weighing scales like the PP pocket scales and Econ digital scales for the elementary science classroom have been totally eliminate from the Sartorius scale portfolio. Acculab Vicon electronic scales have cease production and replaced with the Sartorius AY Series. Acculab SVI bench scales have no direct replacement. ECL Excelleron light industrial weighing scales can be substituted with the higher quality Sartorius Midrics. Also, Acculab ALC and Atilon lab balance equivalent cross reference is the Sartorius AZ and ED series respectively.