Holiday Shutdown

'Tis the season!

Here at Dynalab Corp. that means 'tis the season to shut down between Christmas and New Years to enjoy time with our families and friends.

We will close business at 5pm EST on Tuesday December 23rd and re-open at 8am EST on Monday January 5th.

We would like to wish all of our faithful customers a joyous, safe and successful holiday season and of course continued business in the new year!

Renewing the Energy in Science Education

Dynalon Labware will be exhibiting our line of plastic lab supplies and science equipment at the 2008 Area NSTA Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio from December 4th through the 6th, 2008. Our Product Manager Steve Yudicky will be traveling down with Dynalab Corp. President Martin Davies to attend the three day event.

The focus is on energy at the Cincinnati area conference. The conference headquarters hotel is the Millennium Hotel. Conference registration and some sessions and events will be at the Duke Energy Center, as will the exhibits and the NSTA Science Store. Additional events will be held at the Millennium Hotel and Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza.

The conference will begin with concurrent sessions on Thursday, December 4, at 8:00 AM. The conference will end on Saturday, December 6, at 12 Noon with the closing of the exhibits.

Attendee Registration
Hotel Reservations and Travel
Conference Committee Leaders
Conference Contributors / Sponsors
Presenter / Presider Notes

STAO2008 Annual Conference

Dynalon Labware is proud to be exhibiting at the STAO Annual Conference in Toronto from November 13th to the 15th. This conference is presented by Science Teachers' Association of Ontario.

Visit Steve Yudicky from Dynalon at Booth #206

Steve Yudicky, Dynalon's Product Manager drove up earlier in the week (convenient with us being located in Rochester, NY). Dynalon will be presenting our plastic lab supplies and some of the Stuart equipment line.

The theme for this conference captures the intent to provide a conference featuring student-centred learning experiences and resources that address the most important science and technology-related issues facing society and the environment today. The release of the revised Science and Technology (Grades 1-8) curriculum, and the upcoming release of the Science (Grades 9-12) curriculum, with their much greater emphasis on Science, Technology, Society, and the Environment (STSE) requires us to address this critically important aspect with a comprehensive and research-supported approach.

As with all STAO conferences, you will be provided a comprehensive and balanced program with topics and issues related to all aspects of Science and Technology and Science education. Similarly, there will be a superb exhibitors section, featuring the latest and most helpful products and services related to providing high quality Science and Technology, and Science programs for the students we serve.

Promoting Excellence in Science Education through Leadership and Service

End slips in the home and lab...

Dynalab Corp. has been offering a product called Slip-Stop for the past few years. It is an anti-slip matting sold in 6" by 16" strips but can be cut to 16" by whatever your project requires!

Slip Stop Matting is an inventive product with numerous uses ranging from the laboratory to your pet's food dish! End unnecessary slips with one small piece. Slip Stop mats hold objects firmly in place without the need for permanent fixing or clamps. This contributes to safety by reducing breakages and easing stress at the workbench.

In laboratories, Slip Stop can be used on shakers and stirrers to hold flasks, test tubes etc. safe and secure without the need for clamps. The mats can also be used to provide added product stability and safety for your valuable instruments. On workbenches, Slip Stop will hold components and tools, making it easier to work on them and preventing dropping and spillage, thus reducing accidents, fatigue and loss of small components.

This month's special includes 25% off this matting but you can also receive a free 4" x 4" sample by contacting Dynalab Corp direct. This month's mailing to our loyal customers included this free sample as well as an announcement of the 25% savings for the month of November.

Dynalon full line catalog in 2009

Dynalon Labware, the wholesale division of Dynalab Corp will be releasing a new full line plastic lab supply and science equipment catalog in early 2009. We are anticipating a catalog similar in size to our last full line, around 130 pages listing our most popular Azlon, Kartell and Sterilin product lines along with our plastic fabrication products made right here in Rochester, NY.

Dynalon relies heavily on our loyal distributors to sell direct to the end users and this catalog introduces many new products that we hope will cause a buzz in the market.

Plans are for this catalog to be available in January of 2009 with the pricing structure set up to match the dealer price books. Dynalon distributors will automatically be mailed the updated catalog along with a form for additional requests.

Should you have any questions or would like to reserve additional copies of our new 2009 Dynalon full line catalog please e-mail dynaloninfo@dyna-labware.com.

Happy Halloween!

Dynalab Corp. is very fortunate that our management is excellent at offering fun competitions and gatherings to bring the employees together. It has been tradition to have a costume party each year with winners competing more for the applause than the actual gift card or lottery tickets being given away. This year was no exception.

We had costumes ranging from Luke (shown left) wearing a dinosaur costume with a cave man riding shotgun to a nurse, some scary dudes and no Halloween is complete without a couple pirates! (Luke is my dog but he comes to work on occassion to eat everyone else's lunches. This saves me on dogfood expense and is certainly a bright spot to the hard work we all put in here at Dynalab.)

Thank you to everyone who participated in today's costume contest and congratulations to Karen Smedly this year's winner! Karen was dressed as an elderly woman who lost her puppy and if this picture was taken from behind you would certainly be able to help her find it! Great costume Karen.

Happy Halloween!

Logo Redesign and Graphics

New company, new logo!

It was time we broke free and lightened the load so to speak as the old logo was quite weighty and said nothing about our company. We had been using the previous logo since the late 1990's so it's time was up. Our new corporate colors are an orange and blue combination. The website will also undergo a facelift of sorts in the coming months.

We also redesigned the Dynalon (wholesale division) logo to include the phrase "quality.service.value". Both tag lines were chosen from employee entries. Along with this redesign came new trade show graphics and literature.

Our banner stands and table drops were purchased through Camelback Displays Inc. These will be shown for the first time at a Laboratory Product Sales tradeshow being held at Cornell University on Halloween day. Our Product Manager Steve Yudicky will also be showing off some of our new Kartell products being introduced for 2009.

This is an exciting new fiscal year for Dynalab Corp. so far. Thank you to all of our loyal customers!

TGIF, one more to go...

The good news is, it's FRIDAY! The bad news is, there's only one more Friday before our fiscal year end which means the craziness is ramping up by the minute. As some of you may know, Dynalab has been tossed around a bit for the past 10 years since being bought by then UK company Bibby Sterilin. The entire group was then bought by Barloworld out of South Africa and most recently (last Fall) by another UK company Nova Capital.

Since Nova Capital is a holding group, we are sort of back out on our own which means this is the first year that our year end numbers are truly ours! It's been an exciting year though and despite the rising energy and raw materials costs we are somehow weathering the storm. As you may have read in an earlier entry, we bucked the system and held our prices through the end of the year when much of our competition caved to the mid-year increase.

This means we have put hours of time reviewing the most effective increases, truly line by line on over 3,000 line items to make sure our customers are getting the most fair prices possible. It would be simple to throw a flat rate across the board and call it a day, but we resisted that urge and opted to "get it right" so to speak.

Our 2009 pricing will start entering the market in the month of October to give our customers time to adjust prior to the January 1st effective date. We hope you can understand the need for these increases, as we keep saying to each other, have you filled up with gas in your car lately? There is the answer to our increases, plastics are a petroleum based product which leaves us no choice but to pass these massive increases on to our customer base.

As usual, the lines of communication are open here at Dynalab Corp. A quick call to 800-828-6595 with any questions is always worth the time. Thanks everyone and have a great weekend!

Save 25% on Hybridization Tube Racks in August

Summer blazes on, well here in the North East it is sort of raining on but either way school is just around the corner. Fall is when time speeds back up for so many but with Dynalab Corp. supplying the Education fields we see our spikes in the spring and summer.

Lab organization products are essential and our plastic racks fit your various needs. If we don't stock the plastic rack you require, we can fabricate it here in our Rochester, NY facility. Check out the custom racks link below for further information and to receive your free quotation.

• Choice of three configurations
  Hybridization Tube Rack, Holds 6 tubes, 38 MM tube size
  Hybridization Tube Rack. Holds 6 tubes, 44 MM tube size
  Hybridization Tube Rack. Holds 4 tubes, 80 MM tube size
• Fabricated of clear and white acrylic
• Custom sizes and configurations available with free quotation

Additional Stock Plastic Racks

• Plastic Drying Racks
• Specialty Plastic Racks
• Plastic Test Tube Racks
  

Custom Plastic Racks

Dynalab Corp's Rochester, NY custom plastic fabrication facility manufactures many products for use in laboratories, industry and education including plastic racks, fume hoods, environmental chambers and laboratory furniture. Plastic fabricators have the capabilities to produce custom jobs following the exact requirements of your application.

A few examples of our custom fabrication products include reservoirs, vitrined, tanks, fittings, machine guards, fume hoods, cabinets, chambers, gears, racks and thousands of other industrial and laboratory plastic fabrication items. We have extensive experience in clear acrylic fabrication, a common material for custom plastic fabrication projects.

We're holding on for 2009!

As the summer heat rises it seems so are the prices in the laboratory supply sector. Over the past couple weeks there have been rumors and confirmations from such companies as ThermoFisher that prices will be rising mid-year to consumers on such products as laboratory plasticware.

We as a manufacturer / supplier have been absorbing the constant resin increases for months now but it has become unbearable and actually risky to our businesses to continue as if nothing is happening. We receive price increases sometimes weekly at this point on our purchased in goods for distribution. To say margins are dwindling is an understatement, they are dropping!

Dynalab Corp. / Dynalon Labware have decided to forego the mid-year increase (many of our competitors and distributors are raising prices on August 1st, 2008) with plans to hold out for a full year increase in the 2009. We hope our customers appreciate our efforts and continue with business as usual.

Monthly specials hitting the mark...

Our concerted effort to reach the end users by offering monthly specials, direct mail pieces and e-mail campaigns is paying off. We are on our 4th month of a changing web special and the response has been outstanding! Thank you for your continued support and please let us know if there is either a new product you would like to see Dynalab Corp. offer or something that we already offer you think we can improve on the quality or pricing.

July Dynalab Corp. Special - SAVE 25% off Kartell Cell Culture products

• Tissue embedding sponge


• Regular size tissue embedding cassettes available in six colors


• Medium to large size tissue embedding cassettes available in 5 colors


• Embedding rings available in 5 colors


• Stainless Steel trays for histology in both standard and biopsy type

Dynalab Corp. surges forward with Kartell Labware in North America

Pursuant to a meeting with Kartell, Dynalab Corp. is going full speed ahead promoting Kartell Labware in the North American market.

Kartell is one of the main interpreter of industrial design in the field of Italian and International Companies. Kartell strategy is based on the material utilisation and new technologies, on quality as main discriminant.

Labware Division is able to use in the best way raw materials like polypropylene, polystyrene and polyethylene and to propose plastics as an alternative to glass due to its lightness, resistance and economy.

The efficient production system, together with the most modern technologies has allowed Kartell to obtain the ISO 9001 certification granting the planning and the realization of the products according to the hightest quality standards.

Dynalab Corp. has begun branding the Kartell Labware products on our website and in all printed materials. Direct mail as well as e-mail campaigns will be released over the next few months. We are looking forward to this strengthened business relationship.

A new beginning

April 1st, known to most people as April Fool's Day is Dynalab Corp's new beginning and we are certainly hoping to make a real go of it without any of the fooling!

In the current business environment it is quite common to be bought and sold which can cause some frustration and uncertainty but that is not the case with our most recent sale. We are ready to start fresh with a new approach to the market, instituting the small changes (like this blog for instance) to get in touch with our ever growing internet customer base.

Dynalab Corp. is a company in Rochester, NY that sells reusable plastic lab supplies, single use plastic labware and science equipment along with the added capabilities of onsite custom plastic fabrication.

Basically, we are your one stop shop for laboratories, industry and education.

So why the blog you ask? We already have a rather extensive website so this is our avenue to communicate better with the visitors to our site. We invite you to leave comments about the site, questions about our products or even a quick hello from the dedicated customers we have been fortunate to work with over our past 50 years in business. Should you have an immediate question we always invite you to e-mail or phone us at 800-828-6595 between 8m and 5pm EST.

That's right, 50 years! We have had a couple different locations and owners but still stand strong in our Rochester, NY location ready to serve the plastic lab supply market with current customers all over the world.

We realize this blog is started a few days early of our fresh start but we want to make sure everything is in place. Thank you for visiting our blog and we look forward to opening the lines of commnunications going forward!