Fifty four years ago (in 1958) a young Mechanical Engineer was responsible for a laboratory installation at Dow Chemical Co.in Freeport, Texas. During the next three years, he became responsible for five laboratory installations at Dow.
It soon became clear to this young engineer that plumbing materials for laboratories were different from normal commercial and industrial plumbing. For example, drain material had to be acid and solvent resistant. Corning and O.I. Shott filled that need by providing fitting and pipe made of borosilicate glass made to Federal Standards Number DD-G-541B and ASTM-C-1053. Plumbing service fixtures had index buttons, serrated hose ends, vacuum breakers, aspirators, etc. These materials could not be found in the local hardware store or plumbing supply houses. These specialty hard-to-find items often took 90 days to 180 days to deliver. A shorter delivery time was desperately needed.
This young engineer helped solve an industry-wide delivery problem in 1961 by founding a Laboratory Specialty Service Company, which later became Mechanical Specialty Inc., then MSI and now MSI Products Inc., dba The Laboratory Store.
MSI Products Inc., after 50 years in this highly specialized industry serves laboratory owners throughout the UnitedStates in colleges, universities, high schools, industrial plants, hospitals, etc.
Wherever there is a laboratory, there is a need for MSI Products Inc., The Laboratory Store. Call us, most often we can fill your needs in a few days. Need replacement parts for older laboratories? Call us, we have a 50-year history of those hard-to-find items.
Jim Cabaniss, Founder
