Our Glass Blowing department has had a busy few weeks after the start of 2019. Despite media uncertainty with the forthcoming Brexit we have quietly gone about our work and have shipped a wide variety of Quartz items all produced…
Our Glassblowing Department have made many elaborate test rigs over the years which help to support University R & D Departments not only in the UK but worldwide. The rigs can be extremely delicate pieces of equipment such as the…
Multi-lab has just received one of their cylindrical grinding machine tools back at the Works Factory following a recent refurbishment carried out by the Churchill Machine Tool Company. The refurbishment has come at a cost of over £16,000 and brings…
Multi-lab Limited has for many years held a proud reputation for producing bespoke Quartz Scientific Glassware for the Research and Development community. We recently made a large quantity of Quartz tubes which have a larger ‘bulb’ towards one end of…
We have seen a wide variety of work coming through our Glass blowing department in recent weeks. They have ranged from tiny small crucibles used in Assay Offices through to very large diameter jars originating from a research Lab. An…
Here at Multi-lab we produce many different components using fused silica that end up in laboratories around the world. Much of this equipment is extremely delicate and fragile, often due to the nature of the experiments and the testing regime…
There are many aspects to the use of quartz in today’s modern manufacturing industries. Semiconductor manufacturing which moved from the laboratory to mass manufacture during the 1960’s in the USA, is now a vast global industry. Semi-conductors are found in…
A large part of the workload here at Multi-lab is producing products and components for the scientific community. Due to the unique properties of fused quartz, there is an ongoing demand for a wide variety of scientific components, parts that are…
Here is a 350mm diameter tube during production through one of the larger lathes that we have in the production area. The heat required is needed to get the Quartz glass up to 1750 to 1800°C working temperature. The Glass…