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Diverse Laboratory Cabinets & Casework Designs to Meet Your Needs

As any good manager knows, labs are not so different from complex machines. Many moving parts need to fit together before they can run at their full potential. They teem with the hustle and bustle of constant activity as experiments are performed, samples are taken, tools are transported, waste is removed and an endless list of tests are performed.

We need many things to keep these complex machines well-oiled and running. Quality-designed cabinets may be simple and humble contributors to this effort. But their crucial place can sometimes be overlooked precisely because they are such simple things. This, however, only makes them all the more important.

When your lab is well-stocked with important but dangerous chemicals, where will you store them when they are not in use? How will you make sure that they don’t accidentally get released and cause serious damage? How will you protect your lab personnel from the dangers these chemicals might pose? Where and how will you store your tools? Industrial-quality laboratory cabinets & casework can be the answer to all of these questions and more. [Read More]

Top 10 Tips to Maintaining Stainless Steel Furniture

Stainless steel furniture can seem like a godsend to lab workers and managers alike. It’s durable, dependable, and, because any furniture made with it can be fireproofed and made resistant to chemical damage, it contributes marvelously to lab workers’ safety.

You shouldn’t let these wonderful features fool you into complacently thinking that stainless steel furniture is invincible and needn’t be handled with care, however. As with everything else, time, chemical spills, possible laboratory mishaps, and general accumulated use do take their toll on stainless steel carts, tables, lockers, cabinets, and workbenches. To maximize the working lives of all of these things, you’ll need a well-stocked cleanroom and a thorough, established routine of cleaning and maintenance procedures.

Here are 10 critical tips to follow in all stainless steel cleanrooms so that you can get the most out of your furnishings. Some of these will be suggestions about what to do, and others about what not to do. [Read More]

Essential Laboratory Furniture – Top 5 Pieces To Invest In

Keeping a lab in good working order requires harmonizing a multitude of moving parts. Since there’s typically so much to do, not only should workers be kept humming along in their roles, but the equipment necessary for everyone to get his job done is simply indispensable. As labs grow in size and complexity, they may come to need more and more different kinds of specialized equipment and furniture.

Laboratory furniture is in many ways the foundation of all lab work. It represents the hard and steady surfaces where all work is performed. And let’s not forget, where laboratory tools and samples are stored and equipment is transported. It is the rock on which the foundation of every research lab is built.

But what if your lab furnishings budget is limited? What are the key laboratory furniture components that every lab manager absolutely needs to get?

Here are five of what we condor to be the most critical pieces of laboratory furniture that there are. [Read More]

Primary Uses of Laminar Flow Hoods in Today’s Workplaces

As time goes on, workplaces are becoming increasingly complex places. Technicians are increasingly required to interact with and make use of all kinds of advanced and sophisticated technical equipment. The equipment may serve to help them complete their tasks, keep them safe, or perform other kinds of crucial functions.

Scientific and research labs are frequently at the forefront of such developments. Since it’s impossible to reliably perform scientific experiments without setting up sterile and highly controlled conditions, labs often need some highly sophisticated tools just to be able to carry on their day-to-day operations. One of the most important of these tools is laminar flow hoods.

RDM Industrial Products proudly manufactures many of these. [Read More]

Ins & Outs of Stainless Steel Industrial Furniture

Lab work can be rough sometimes. Important experiments and chemical reactions go off regularly all around you, and potentially caustic and hazardous substances are almost always within reach. Proper lab furniture is essential, of course, but just any kind of furniture won’t do. Your research team will need something of industrial quality that can reliably handle the special stresses of the lab.

For many reasons, stainless steel is the ideal material out of which to make at least a significant portion of your lab furniture, casework, and equipment, and RDM Industrial Products stands ready to custom build any kind of stainless steel industrial furniture that your lab may require. With our 40 years of experience building factory-direct lab equipment for our clients, we’re prepared to meet even your minutest specifications.

Here is some important information about the kinds of stainless steel laboratory furniture that we make and why your lab would benefit enormously from introducing some of it into its daily operations. [Read More]

Adjustable Height Tables: Luxury or Necessity

When you show off adjustable height furniture to most people, they’ll readily concede that it’s a cool addition to the workplace that may promote worker comfort. Unfortunately, that’s generally where most people’s examination of the matter ends. Ergonomic furniture like adjustable height tables and desks may be a nice little creature comforts to have while at work, they’ll say, but that’s about it. In the minds of many, while such things are good to have, they represent a luxury and not a necessity.

But is this really true? Is comfort really so overrated? Or does making sure that desk workers have a pleasant and agreeable work environment have underappreciated ripple effects?

Increasingly, prominent companies in major industries have made investments in providing ergonomic tables and workstations to their workers. They’ve come to see that there are important spillover benefits to making such investments. [Read More]

Top 10 Reasons Laboratories Need Laminar Airflow Hoods

Laboratories can often have some pretty sophisticated pieces of equipment. Certain kinds of equipment can be so important that they maintain a pretty much constant presence from lab to lab. Regardless of whether that lab is geared more toward pure scientific research or whether it tends to focus more on the practical side of engineering and design. Without question, laminar airflow hoods are one of these mainstays.

Laminar airflow hoods (often also called laminar flow benches or workstations) are special tools meant to prevent particulate contamination in experimental settings. Each one typically consists of a workbench enclosed by a stainless steel cabinet and further surrounded by glass or some similar tough but transparent material. One side of the enclosure also contains an opening, allowing a researcher to reach in and perform whatever work he needs to within that sterile environment.[Read More]

Types of Workbenches Used In Industrial Workplaces

Industrial workbenches are exceedingly popular in a wide variety of industries. In fact, workbenches can be so useful and versatile that even industries that are ostensibly unrelated make liberal use of them. Not only are they used widely and frequently in all sorts of workspaces, but the specific tasks that they are used to tend to be central to the companies and industries that use them.

RDM Industrial Products produces an extraordinarily diverse variety of quality-designed and custom-built workbenches.

Here’s a bit of critical information about how important these benches can be to your lab, studio, or business and about the various types of benches that RDM can manufacture to meet your needs.[Read More]

Industrial Heavy Duty Carts – Where And When To Use Them

Industrial carts are exceedingly common because they are so versatile and useful. They can be used to carry objects, as a work surface, storing tools and so much more. Not only that, but there are various specialized utility carts to ensure they meet your exact demands. Read on to find out more about the heavy duty carts we offer and why they are so important for your business.

Different Types of Heavy Duty Carts

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Purchasing Light Tables – Things To Consider

If you’re drawing, drafting, inspecting, or need a table that can illuminate, then an industrial light table should be your next purchase. This type of table has a lightbox and many other optional features that will ensure you get the light you need in your office, lab, or any other setting. This post will go over what light tables have to offer, different types of tables, and what you need to know before making your next light table purchase.[Read More]