Designer: Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, 1969,
Producer: Terraillon, Chatou, France, 1970,
Material: Acryl-Butadien-Styrol (ABS), Polymethylmethacrylat (PMMA)
Colours: corpus: orange, beige; covering: smoke-coloured.
Marked: „Franz. Eichmarke Nr. 3684 A.50 du 25 6 1970“.
Size/measurements: height with cover 4,8 inch (12,3 cm), without 4,6 inch (11,7 cm); depth with cover 4,8 inch (12,3 cm), without 4,3 inch (11 cm); width with cover 6,9 inch (17,5 cm), without 6,75 inch (16,7 cm).
Equipment: Weight measuring range until 4000 Grams, 20 Grams graduation, manual add in weight function, calibrated, angled amplifier made of Plexiglas, two lids for capacity 1-2 kilo.

_{State: very minimal track of use, in all very good.}

In 1969 the French manufacturer of weighing instruments “Terraillon” commissioned the talented Designerduo Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper to develop a new scale.

The result was the kitchen scales Export 4000. It was produces from 1970 from injection-moulded, coloured ABS.
The Export 4000 was sleek and compact, had soft contours, was produced in different colours and was an appropriate scales for the "land of the gourmets", notes the art historian Sylvia Katz. His elegant and logical design proved to be good-looking and functional in the kitchen.
The scale consisted of an encasement, who’s top and also the smoky flip lid could be used in reversed position for meting dry and liquids ingredients. It features an angled amplifier made of Plexiglas, a 20 grams graduation and a manual add in weight function.
When the scale was not needed, it could be excellent stowed.

The combination of lid and corpus gave the design a playful, puzzle like quality, which reflects the geometric Pop-Modernism of the early 1970s.
The phenomenal success of the Export proved that thermoplastics could create completely new interpretations of a product.

Collection: Museums of Modern Art in New York.
Lit.: Sylvia Katz: Plastics, Common Objects, Classic Designs, Harry N. Abrams Inc.; New York 1984. Francois Burkhardt: Design Marco Zanuso, Mailand 1994, p.166f..