About Omace
India’s promise of honest weight
In India a scale has always carried more than weight. It carries a promise: what you pay for is what you get. Walk the old road with us, from the first standard weights of the Indus cities to the scales we make in Bagru, Jaipur, today.
c. 2600 BCE · Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and the Indus cities
The first standard weights
Traders of the Indus cities weighed with cubes cut mostly from chert, all to one standard. The small weights double, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, then step up in tens, and the same weights were used across the settlements. Their common unit weighs about 13.7 g.
Maan means a measure. It also means honour.
c. 300 BCE · Kautilya’s Arthashastra
A keeper of honest weights
The Arthashastra gives the kingdom an officer of weights and measures, the pautavadhyaksha. Traders paid a fee to have their weights stamped, anyone caught with unstamped weights was fined 27¼ panas, and false balances were punished.
Source: Arthashastra, Book II, ch. 19 (Shamasastry translation, Columbia University)Guruvayur, Kerala, and temples across India
Weighed with devotion
At Guruvayur, devotees sit on one pan of a great tula and offer their own weight in bananas, sugar, jaggery or coconuts. Kings did the same with gold and gave it away, the tulapurusha dana.
A story told across India: Satyabhama piled her gold against Krishna and the pan would not rise. Rukmini laid one tulsi leaf on it with devotion, and the scale came level.
Some things are weighed by love, not by gold.
Around 1500 · Sultanpur Lodhi, Punjab
Tera, tera: all of it is yours
Guru Nanak kept the stores of the Modikhana at Sultanpur Lodhi. As the story is told, while weighing out grain he reached thirteen, tera, the word that also means “yours”, and kept saying “tera, tera” as he gave it all away.
The goldsmith’s measure
From a seed to a tola
Goldsmiths weighed gold against gunja seeds, the ratti. The Arthashastra already counts five gunja seeds to a masha of gold. Today India still speaks of gold in tola, about 11.66 g, and our Ace jewellery scales read in tola.
Every town and mandi
The scale of dharma
In many towns the public weighbridge is the dharam kanta, literally a scale of dharma. India chose one national system of weights by an Act of 1956, in use from 1 October 1958, and today every weight and scale used in trade must be verified and stamped under the Legal Metrology Act.
Every Anganwadi, clinic and home
The first number of a life
Since 1975, Anganwadi centres have weighed India’s young children every month to watch them grow, and today they also measure them with infantometers and stadiometers. A newborn’s first weight, a mother’s check-up, a family’s health: we build our baby scales, infantometers, stadiometers and bathroom scales for these moments.
Source: Press Information Bureau, Ministry of Women and Child DevelopmentJaipur, 1994 to today
Our part of the story
Our family has been in the weighing line in Jaipur since 1994. Ace and Venus became our brands in 2007, Hoffen joined in 2017, and in 2023 we became Omace Brands Private Limited, with our own factory at G-29, RIICO Industrial Area, Bagru.
Weighing life with respect
Life, values, respect. The promise the Indus traders cut into stone, carried in every scale that leaves Bagru.
Omace today
Omace Brands Private Limited is an Indian manufacturer of precision weighing scales, healthcare weighing equipment, industrial weighing equipment, laboratory balances, kitchen scales and made-to-order measuring solutions, for homes, shops, hospitals, laboratories and industry across India and abroad.
Four names, one factory in Bagru
एक कारख़ाना
Ace
Jewellery, pocket and laboratory scales that read to 0.01 g and 0.001 g, for jewellers, labs and traders.
from ₹799
Venus
Bathroom, baby, kitchen and mechanical hanging scales for homes, clinics and Anganwadi centres.
from ₹249
Hoffen
Personal, smart body, kitchen, coffee and luggage scales, with free phone apps on the smart ones.
from ₹349
Omace
Shop, platform, chicken and crane scales for trade, and height measures for child growth checks.
from ₹320Also from our family: Pointrek (electronics and fitness accessories), Froskie (shoes and soles) and Dr. Fit (fitness and health products).
What we make
हम क्या बनाते हैं- Body weighing scales
- Baby scales
- Jewellery scales
- Kitchen scales
- Tabletop scales
- Platform scales
- BMI scales
- Laboratory balances
- Industrial weighing systems
- Infantometers and stadiometers
- OEM and private label scales
How we keep the promise
- We make what we sell. Being the manufacturer lets us hold quality, consistency and performance to one standard. Every scale is built from tested parts and checked several times before it ships.
- We keep improving. Product design, displays, load cells and battery life get better every year, for homes and for industry.
- We build at scale. Our factory handles automated production, customisation, bulk orders and fast dispatch for institutions and businesses.
- We serve all of India. Dealers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, laboratories, supermarkets, fitness centres, government bodies and industry, plus OEM manufacturing, private labelling and bulk supply.
Checked before it ships
Our years
हमारा सफ़र- 1994The family starts in the weighing line in Jaipur, selling and servicing scales.
- 2007Ace and Venus become our brands.
- 2011Our scales go online.
- 2014Venus reaches homes across India.
- 2017Hoffen joins; our first Legal Metrology model approvals.
- 2022An Ace balance is approved in accuracy class I.
- 2023Omace Brands Private Limited, factory in Bagru.
- 2024The trade range is approved; ISO 13485, EU MDR and CE.
- 2025BIS grants our ISI licence for platform, table and bench scales.
- 2026Our own store opens; stall 6 at AIFWITA, Jaipur.
Put your brand on our scales
We make scales for brands across India and abroad. Logo printing starts at 200 pieces and full branding at 1,000; tabletop, chicken and platform scales start at 500 pieces per model. G-29, RIICO Industrial Area, Bagru, Jaipur.