Phenolic, epoxy, ceramic or stainless — choosing a laboratory worktop
What each surface actually resists, how thickness changes the price, and which one to specify for acids, solvents, heat or cleanroom work.
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Practical notes on specifying, pricing and buying laboratory furniture — written by the people who build it.
Most of the work in a laboratory project happens before anyone signs a purchase order: deciding what the bench is made of, whether the room can take a ducted hood, which certificate the inspector will ask for. These guides cover those decisions in the order a project usually meets them.
They are written from our own drawings and our own mistakes. Where a number depends on your country, your code or your chemicals, we say so instead of quoting a figure that would not survive contact with an inspector.
What each surface actually resists, how thickness changes the price, and which one to specify for acids, solvents, heat or cleanroom work.
6 min readMore guides are in the writing queue: fume hood sizing, the standards buyers ask about, and what actually moves the price of a lab fit-out. If one of those is blocking your BOQ, ask us directly — we usually answer the same question by email within a day, and it may become the next guide.
This is a factory website, so treat these pages the way you would treat advice from a supplier anywhere: useful, but written by someone with a commercial interest.
Send the question with the room type and the chemicals involved. If it is a good one, it becomes the next article.
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