Equipment

Lab Procurement Services provides access to equipment manufactured by many outstanding companies. In this post, we highlight two of our partners, ResinTech and Yamato Scientific.

We'll discuss a new company (with an old name) who can provide some hard-to-find equipment, and summarize our customer-friendly approach to working with you on a daily basis.

The lab item that often causes buyer remorse is a centrifuge. Hopefully, the info in this blog post can help you can avoid some of these mistakes on your next purchase!

Water is used in every type of lab for everything from hand and glassware washing to some of the most complex biochemical assays.  But in my experience, very few lab managers are knowledgeable about reagent grade water and only very few lab managers can provide a correct explanation of the differences between Type I, II and III water.

Fact: The average value of the contents of the average -86° freezer averages $150,000.

Question: What is the value of the contents of the refrigerator where you store your reagents or specimens?

Fact: Although refrigerators are built to last 10 – 15 years and are the second biggest source of power consumption in the lab (#1 is your fume hood) most labs buy based on the lowest price as the primary consideration.

Question: Is buying cheap refrigeration / freezing equipment really a good decision?