Exhibit 24.1
                             POWER OF ATTORNEY


     KNOW ALL  PERSONS  BY THESE  PRESENTS,  that  each of the  undersigned
directors of Mettler-Toledo  International Inc. (the "Company")  constitute
and appoint Robert F. Spoerry,  Dennis W. Braun,  James Bellerjeau and Mary
T.  Finnegan,  and each of them as their true and lawful  attorneys-in-fact
and agents,  with full power of substitution and  resubstitution,  for them
and in their names, places, and steads, in any and all capacities,  to sign
one  or  more   registration   statements  to  be  filed  pursuant  to  any
registration  rights  agreement to be entered into in  connection  with the
proposed  issuance  of  debt  securities  by the  Company  and  any and all
amendments (including post-effective amendments and registration statements
under Rule 462) to the registration statements, under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended,  and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and the
other documents in connection  therewith,  with the Securities and Exchange
Commission,  granting unto said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents, and each of
them,  full power and  authority  to do and perform  each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith,  as fully
to all  intents and  purposes  as they might or could do in person,  hereby
ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any
of them, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes,  may lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: October 30, 2003

         /s/ Robert F. Spoerry
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Robert F. Spoerry

         /s/ Philip Caldwell
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Philip Caldwell

         /s/ John T. Dickson
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John T. Dickson

         /s/ Philip H. Geier
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Philip H. Geier

         /s/ John D. Macomber
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John D. Macomber

         /s/ Hans Ulrick Maerki
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Hans Ulrick Maerki

         /s/ George M. Milne
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George M. Milne

         /s/ Thomas P. Salice
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Thomas P. Salice