Why is Wile better?

Wile portable moisture meters are a robust and reliable tool for grain moisture measurement. The measurement can be made from whole grain from a sample of a small volume.

The Wile meters are available for most commercially cultivated grains as well as for hay and silage up to 70% of moisture. With the WIle hay meters you can even measure loose hay before it has been baled.

The performance of the Wile meters has been verified by numerous test by the professional press. The accuracy and reliability of Wile is a result of a balanced design that is based on solid knowledge of moisture measurement and deep understanding of the measured materials from all over the world. In our own grain laboratory we test the target materials, do reference measurements and create scales for new sorts of materials as required by our customers. 

We also understand the different basic measurement principles and we can apply them to create products that do what they promise. 

We are specialised in portable devices for moisture measurement. This specialisation makes it possible to produce the market leading portable moisture meters with affordable prices. 

Wile products use a capacitive measurement principle that uses a high frequency electric circuit and a compressed sample. This gives re producible results with high accuracy. All digital Wile models have also an automatic temperature compensation that is vital for the best results. 

Based on the same measurement principle we have also developed a product range for hay and silage. No other hay meter can cover reliably the whole range of hay moisture from 10 to 70%.

No wonder that Wile is the most copied device on the market.

The story of Wile

The Wile grain moisture meter was originally created by the successful innovator and entrepreneur Matti Wilska in the early 1960:s. Prototypes were built during 1963 and 1964 and the actual production started at Optillinen Tehdas (”Optical Factory”) in 1965 under a license from Wilska. First patents are from the year 1965.

Wile is an acronym after names of two persons: Wi after Wilska himself and le after Leitzinger. Matti Wilska took assistance from patent office Leitzinger and the owner, Jorma Leitzinger wanted to include a part of his name to the product name as well. 

We pronounce the name Wile like Wi in ”Wind” and le like in ”let" 

The first Wile type was the Wile 49-22. The format of the device resembles closely today’s model even if the measurement principle has been refined in later products. The first Wile 49-22 was available for wheat, barley, oats, rye and canola. It was first tested by the Finnish state agricultural agency in 1965 and it received the German DLG approval in 1967. The first truly industrial device was the next version, the Wile 22A. 

A true legend was created in 1970 when the Wile 35 was introduced. It was produced until 2006, for 36 years! 

Wile moved to digital age in early 1980:s when the Wile 100 was introduced. It was in the program until 1986 when Wile production was moved to the newly founded Farmcomp. At this stage it was unfortunately no longer possible to produce some of the required fine mechanical parts with a reasonable price, so the product had to be discontinued. However, most of these devices are still in active use and very much liked by the users. Actually we have been unable to get one of them for our own collection... 

The current digital meter generation saw daylight in 1990 when Wile 55 and 25 were introduced. They have undergone constant fine development and today Wile 55 is our best selling model. They were later followed by a range of Wile 6x models that have a text display and some additional features like temperature measurement with an additional probe. 

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