One ton is always 2,000 pounds, no matter the material.
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One ton in US weight.
One US (short) ton = about 17.86 hundredweights. One UK (long) ton = 20 hundredweights.
One ton is a unit of weight equivalent to 2,000 pounds. It measures the weight of an object or quantity, with one ton typically being used to measure large or heavy items such as cars, trucks, and cargo shipments.
1 metric ton is equal to 1000 kilograms in weight.
1 metric ton = 1,000 kilograms1 US ton = 2,000 pounds of weight = the weight on earthof 907.186 kilograms of mass