Archives for March 2021

Let’s Talk Lab Tables – The Backbone of Any Laboratory

March 25, 2021

Consider all of the day-to-day activities that anyone looking through a laboratory is likely to see. Lab techs and researchers are often engaged in a myriad of technical tasks while working at their designated lab tables. Tasks such as weighing, measuring, mixing, heating, cooling, and purifying samples, growing cultures, preparing slides, calibrating equipment, setting off reactions, recording data, designing and arranging experiments, theorizing about their results.

It’s hard to imagine most, if not all, of these things being done effectively — or even at all — if good and reliable lab tables were not at the disposal of the research staff. The table surface, after all, is where all of the magic happens. Lab tables are the foundation for all the lab activities alluded to above.

In essence, a lab table is a simple thing. It’s just a flat, horizontal surface with some legs to hold it up. And though each and every one of our laboratory tables and benches fits that general template, we customize too. We offer all kinds of factory-direct models for sale that have specialized capabilities ranging far beyond what that simple description can capture.[Read More]

Tall or Short, Laboratory Storage Cabinets Will Keep Your Lab Organized

March 19, 2021

The laboratory is the hotbed, the nursery of science. It’s where all of the legwork and the magic of scientific discovery happens. But even if only the great breakthroughs at the end of a long train of lab work are able to draw the attention of the public, any competent manager knows that there are an enormous number of seemingly simple and mundane things that go into making those breakthroughs happen. This is true even down to the level of the kinds of equipment and furniture used in day-to-day lab operations. One of the most important of these are simple, yet versatile laboratory storage cabinets.

After all, labs are home to an extraordinary number of different tools and chemicals — some of them quite caustic and dangerous if not used properly — and they can’t all be in use at once. When they aren’t, they need to be put away, and put away safely. They need to be kept reliably under lock and key until such time as they’re called for. Lab managers not only need to think about the efficiency and smoothness with which their daily procedures run when considering these issues, but the safety and well-being of their lab workers as well.

RDM has been in the business of manufacturing quality-designed and factory-direct lab furniture for more than four decades. Our laboratory cabinets are among the best in the field and will help you to impose some order on a world bristling with hustle and bustle.[Read More]

Cabinets, Counters and Casework – Enhancing Everyday Workspaces

March 11, 2021

An extraordinarily rich and wide-ranging set of jobs require people who can work comfortably yet diligently at some sort of desk or counter. Since many of these jobs demand some kind of specialized knowledge or skills, they are only growing in number and economic importance. Moreover, many of the workplaces that host these very same jobs also have their own peculiar storage needs. A natural solution to all of these challenges is to get some quality-designed cabinets, counters, and casework.

With these additions to your workplace, you’ll establish convenient and ergonomically designed environments for your workers to ply their trades. They will also have secure and resilient places in which to store some crucial tools, supplies, uniforms, and chemicals. Or anything else that the staff might need throughout the day. In fact, with the right sort of storage and workstations, you may even be able to kill both of these birds with the very same stone. [Read More]

Common Light Table Myths Debunked

March 5, 2021

Like a lot of crucial industrial and lab equipment, illuminated tables also known as a light table, are deceptively simple things. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that has led people to believe some deceptive things about them. Including, how they work and what they can do.

But these are myths — in some cases, exaggerations or misstatements, in others outright falsehoods. Many of these myths are interrelated and feed into one another. Worse yet, the misapprehensions they engender keep people from availing themselves of what can be incredibly useful tools.

RDM Industrial Products has 40 plus years of experience creating laboratory and industrial furniture. So we know a thing or two about how a light table works. Since we want you to be in the know – here are five of the most common light table myths debunked.[Read More]