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Welcome to the New & Improved LSN!

By Carlton Hoyt, 01 May 2025

Hello! If you're one of the relatively few people familiar with Laboratory Supply Network's old corporate site, you may be a bit shocked to see our new one. For a long time, the LabSup.Net domain has housed a fairly boring and straightforward corporate information site (with a few neat blog posts, which are still found here), and we had our laboratory equipment "marketplaces" on a growing cadre of individual websites, each focused on one type of laboratory equipment. For the purposes of both branding and limitations of ecommerce website technology when we first launched in 2013, that made sense. It no longer does, however.

We No Longer Offer BioLogics, Inc. Ultrasonic Homogenizers

By Carlton Hoyt, 03 October 2024

One of our goals at Laboratory Supply Network is to offer our customers a wide range of products and provide you with the tools and information to select the best product for your lab from that large selection. When we stop offering a product line, and thereby reduce your choices, we like to explain why in the interest of transparency.

We No Longer Offer BioLogics, Inc. Ultrasonic Homogenizers

Update on Shipping to Canada

By Carlton Hoyt, 25 June 2024

We love Canada and love our Canadian customers. For a long time, we've quietly given our Canadian customers a special discount: deeply discounted flat-rate shipping on all orders to Canada. As you might have heard, shipping costs have increased wildly over the past few years, greatly outpacing inflation in most other areas. Due to this, we unfortunately can no longer offer flat-rate shipping to Canada.

But this isn't the end of our Canada love! Our past, present, and future Canadian customers can still order from us. All you need to do is contact us for a quick & easy shipping quote. We'll also work to ensure you get the best value on shipping (i.e. get to you inexpensively while getting there on time and in one piece) from...

Buy an MB120 Moisture Analyzer and Get a 3-Year Supply of Consumables

By Aimee O'Driscoll, 23 January 2020

From now until June 30th, Ohaus is giving away a three-year supply of consumables when you purchase an MB120.

Buy an MB120 Moisture Analyzer and Get a 3-Year Supply of Consumables

Our Apologies to the Non-Continental US

By Carlton Hoyt, 08 October 2019

Since Laboratory Supply Network's inception, we have very customer-friendly shipping policies. We offer flat-rate shipping based on order value, regardless of how large or heavy the item is, to anywhere in the US. While we're still going to be maintaining that policy on as many stores as possible, we are unable to continue offering that on our LabFreezers.net, LabIncubators.net, and LabCentrifuges.net stores.

We Now Charge California Sales Tax. Here's Why.

By Carlton Hoyt, 03 July 2019

We don't like taxes any more than anyone else. Unfortunately for many, last year's South Dakota v. Wayfair decision by the United States Supreme Court meant that more companies are going to have to charge state and local sales taxes in more jurisdictions. A number of factors have made us come to what we consider an unfortunate but necessary decision to begin collecting CA sales tax. Here's why we're doing it:

We already had a number of suppliers that charged us sales tax to ship to various jurisdictions, and we simply ate the cost. The number doing so in California are increasing rapidly.

We Now Charge California Sales Tax. Here's Why.

Now You Can See How Long a Product Usually Takes to Ship

By Carlton Hoyt, 15 October 2018

When you’re browsing for your next lab equipment purchase, it’s helpful to be armed with as much information as possible. Often one of the more important pieces of information is when you could expect the item if you were to purchase it. Knowing roughly when a product is likely to ship is not only helpful with in planning, but it may affect your purchasing decision. A product with a 2-day lead time would almost always be far preferable to a product with a 20-day lead time, but most laboratory equipment suppliers don’t provide this information.

We realize that it can be annoying and time consuming to call up and ask about lead times for every product which you may be considering, so we’ve placed that information (or at least an ...

Now You Can See How Long a Product Usually Takes to Ship

Welcome to LabCentrifuges.net!

By Traci Thrash, 12 October 2018

Welcome to LabCentrifuges.net, where we provide you with one of the best selections of laboratory centrifuges of all types - mini centrifuges, micro centrifuges, benchtop centrifuges, and more - along with regimented information and easy-to-use tools to help you identify the best centrifuge for your application!

We know there are a lot of centrifuges out there, and we also know that it probably doesn't make sense for you to become an expert on centrifuges, of all things. You have better things to worry about. However, when you shop on LabCentrifuges.net, we want to ensure that you're as certain as possible that you've selected the best centrifuge for your application and your budget. We promise to do our best...

LabBalances.net Is Launched!

By Carlton Hoyt, 28 June 2018

Laboratory Supply Network is proud to announce the launch of LabBalances.net! We have everything you need for laboratory weighing, from scales and analytical balances through calibration weights. We're confident you'll find that we offer a very large selection of laboratory balances as well as the tools and information you need to find the best choice for your lab.

Troemner / Ohaus Product Transition Update

By Carlton Hoyt, 29 March 2018

This information is current at the last time of editing, which is March 29th, 2018.

As we mentioned early last month, much of the Troemner / Talboys laboratory equipment line will be transitioning to the Ohaus brand (they're both owned by the same parent company - Mettler Toledo). In this post, we'll keep you updated on that transition. We have developed a guide to inform you what Troemner / Talboys products have been transitioned and what their new Ohaus counterparts are. That guide is available at this link.

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Troemner / Ohaus Product Transition Update

Some Troemner / Talboys Products Now Sold Under Ohaus Brand

By Carlton Hoyt, 02 February 2018

UPDATE: More information on the progress of this transition is available and will continue to be updated on this page.

Back in 2016, Mettler Toledo purchased Troemner. You can read about it in this Mettler-Toledo earnings press release. Troemner manufactures the Talboys line of laboratory equipment, including a number of items which we sell on our orbitalshakers.net, stirrers.net, and homogenizers.net marketplaces. They are beginning to tr...

Why We No Longer Carry Buchi Rotary Evaporators

By Carlton Hoyt, 15 January 2018

If you've been to Rotovaps.net a few times, you may have noticed that Buchi products used to be listed but no longer are. We wanted to explain this change and let you know exactly why it happened.

Laboratory Supply Network's goal is to allow our customers to easily and rapidly make the purchasing decisions that best meet their needs. Part of fulfilling that goal necessitates offering a wide array of choices. Being the largest manufacturer of rotary evaporators, it seemed a natural choice that we would offer Buchi's systems, which we did for a while.

A few months ago, Buchi notified us that they were terminating our relationship. When we inquired why, we were told that it was because we offered other brands of rotary evap...

Why We No Longer Carry Buchi Rotary Evaporators

We "Awesomized" Our Search

By Carlton Hoyt, 27 August 2017

You can now enter a term into the search box (which is on the upper right side of the page on all pages) and see results sorted into:

Products
Application Center articles
Protocols (coming very soon!)
Blog articles

It's easier than ever to find what you're looking for. Go ahead and try it!

LabIncubators.net Is Born!

By Carlton Hoyt, 30 June 2017

Welcome to LabIncubators.net, where you will find an exceptionally large range of laboratory incubators from many different manufacturers side-by-side with the tools and information that laboratory professionals need to help them make a confident decision.

Small Changes to Shipping Rates

By Carlton Hoyt, 19 June 2017

We've updated our shipping rates. Rates for all US customers have been rounded down, and shipping rates for Canadian customers were increased slightly on orders under $1000 to reflect the higher costs of shipping and order processing for orders to Canada.

For the US, the rates are now:

$0 - $999	$19
$1000 - $1999	$12
$2000 or more	Free

For Canada, the rates are now:

$0 - $999	$30
$1000 - $1999	$18
$2000 or more	Free

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