Medical and Diagnostic Laboratory Furniture
Medical laboratory furniture has to withstand daily disinfection, contact with biological samples and reagents, and the weight of analysers. At its factory in Białystok, Renggli designs and manufactures laboratory workstations with stainless steel, resin and ceramic worktops, microscope tables, laboratory fume hoods and cabinets, and installs them with its own team.
Diagnostic laboratory or treatment room
A treatment room needs medical furniture: medicine cabinets, treatment trolleys and surfaces that are easy to disinfect. A diagnostic laboratory adds workstations for handling samples, services at the worktops, space for equipment and a fume hood for work with reagents. That is why it combines two Renggli product lines: laboratory furniture in the RL system and medical furniture. The differences are described in our article on treatment rooms versus laboratories.
Worktops for work with biological samples
Stainless steel is chosen where hygiene and frequent cleaning matter most, that is in wet, medical and microbiological laboratories. The worktops are made from AISI 304 and AISI 316L grades, 1.2 to 1.5 mm thick, and are not cleaned with chlorine-based agents. Where concentrated reagents are also used at the workstation, epoxy resin performs well: it is seamless and its water absorption is below 0.05%. When steel is the best choice is explained in our article on stainless steel laboratory worktops.
Certified medical furniture
Renggli's medical furniture line is made from acid-resistant stainless steel AISI 304 and AISI 316L, or from powder-coated sheet steel 0.8 to 1.5 mm thick. It carries a CE declaration of conformity and is entered in the Polish register of medical devices kept by URPL (the Polish Office for Registration of Medicinal Products, Medical Devices and Biocidal Products), and production follows ISO 13485 and EN 14727. Medical cabinets have lockable compartments for medicines and are made of materials resistant to disinfectants.
Workstations for analysers and microscopes
A standard laboratory bench takes about 200 kg per running metre; heavier analysers need a reinforced frame, which is why we collect the equipment list before design starts. Microscope tables have an anti-vibration construction and an ergonomic height for long working sessions. For analytical weighing there are weighing tables with a slab isolated from the worktop. How to choose a microscope table is covered in our article on microscope workstations.
Fume hoods and cabinets
Work with reagents that give off fumes requires a fume hood (fume cupboard) compliant with EN 14175. A fume hood protects the operator, while a laminar flow cabinet protects the sample, so the two are not interchangeable; for infectious material a biological safety cabinet to EN 12469 is used. Flammable reagents are kept in fire-resistant safety storage cabinets compliant with EN 14470-1. What exactly each of these standards specifies is summarised on our page on laboratory furniture standards.
Projects
- District Sanitary and Epidemiological Station in Radom: 53 laboratory rooms, 2,240 m².
- Laboratory rooms at the Medical University of Białystok: 23 laboratory and staff rooms, 492 m².
Frequently asked questions
They are made of acid-resistant stainless steel AISI 304 or AISI 316L, or of powder-coated sheet steel 0.8 to 1.5 mm thick. Steel withstands intensive disinfection, and the powder coating with silver ions is 60 to 80 microns thick. Steel is not cleaned with chlorine-based agents.
Yes. Renggli medical furniture has a CE declaration of conformity and is entered in the Polish register of medical devices kept by URPL. Laboratory furniture is manufactured in line with ISO 9001:2015, and the fume hoods meet EN 14175.
A laminar flow cabinet and a fume hood protect different things, so one cannot replace the other. A fume hood draws chemical fumes away from the operator, while a laminar flow cabinet blows filtered air over the work area so that the sample is not contaminated. A laboratory that works with both reagents and biological material needs both. Read more in our article on how a laminar flow cabinet works.
A worktop material suited to the reagents and disinfectants in use, the load capacity of the frame for the equipment, the services at the workstations, and the documents: the CE declaration, entry in the medical devices register and compliance with product standards.
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