Yorlab Open New Offices and Workshops

Yorlab are pleased to announce the opening of their new offices and workshops in Dunnington, near York. The Company has made a significant investment in plant and machinery at the new Dunnington site. “The opening of our new site enables us to strengthen our leading position in the laboratory supply market; “it’s definitely a great opportunity,” said Mark Walsh, Sales Manager. The new facilities consist of a glassblowing workshop, a new warehouse, an engineering workshop and a new sales office with extra phone lines and a dedicated customer service station. The brand new workshops are equipped with modern cutting, grinding, polishing, edging, drilling and sandblasting facilities. Yorlab offer a modifications and repairs service for most standard items of laboratory glassware and equipment, and also have a bespoke design manufacture service that is able to find solutions to the most challenging of tasks. A recent addition to the Yorlab remit is a specialist electrical service. Here, as well as offering repair and servicing of all electrical laboratory equipment, they can now offer a bespoke manufacture service for laboratory test equipment. Yorlab also supply laboratory equipment nationwide to industrial, educational and pharmaceutical laboratories from small replacement parts to complete wipe wall systems. Yorlab are able to offer their customers a complete service.

At the Dunnington site are 20 skilled workers and apprentices, with 3 at the Durham branch, all providing an excellent service.

“We believe that customer service is the lifeblood of our business and aim to achieve excellence for all our customers. We try to send our customers away happy enough to pass positive feedback about our business along to others, who we hope will then try our service,” said Julie Gill, Customer Service.

Yorlab are launching their new catalogue at the end of the year so look out for your copy, or drop them an e-mail to make sure you are on their mailing list - sales@yorlab.co.uk.

Additional investment is expected towards the end of 2009, “We feel really proud of what we have achieved… with a lot of hard work and commitment we have created a unique facility, the sky is the limit,” said Alex Davis, Managing Director, Yorlab.