Need help identifying some metal cabinets

[infinite97]

I picked these up on marketplace recently and I’ve been disassembling / cleaning / straightening. There are 5 cabinets total. Can any of y’all ID them? I’d like to find spare parts and maybe additional pieces if possible!

Edit: the sharpie writing on the top says “monroe innovite.” I google searched it, all that comes up is innovite is the name of a vitamin mfg. in my local area

 

[mikegt4]

If the black countertop came with the cabinet I would say that they came from "lab" at a business. A vitamin manufacturer would certainly have labs for research and quality control. I can't say who made the cabinets but I have worked in a few industrial "labs" and they all had similar cabinetry. Nice score BTW.

 

[The Cobbler]

yeah, a nice score for sure

 

[infinite97]

If the black countertop came with the cabinet I would say that they came from "lab" at a business. A vitamin manufacturer would certainly have labs for research and quality control. I can't say who made the cabinets but I have worked in a few industrial "labs" and they all had similar cabinetry. Nice score BTW.

They did. They are heavy as fuuuuuuuuuu. They are too big / deep, I either will have to have them cut, or just replace them.

 

[4xdog]

Kewaunee made a lot of the cabinets in my labs over the years. That style doesn’t look familiar, but there’s at least one possible maker to check out.

 

[mikedodge]

If the black countertop came with the cabinet I would say that they came from "lab" at a business. A vitamin manufacturer would certainly have labs for research and quality control. I can't say who made the cabinets but I have worked in a few industrial "labs" and they all had similar cabinetry. Nice score BTW.

I was going to say the same thing. Depending on the material the top is made of they look like they type of thing science labs have.

 

[Stuart in MN]

A word of caution: I got some cabinets that came out of a chemistry lab at a local university. They also originally had heavy black countertops, but they had been determined to contain asbestos so as a result the countertops had been removed and disposed of separately (I got them through a personal friend who was the facilities manager, so I know they had in fact been tested.)

 

[BurtEggley]

Look at Hanson Lab Solutions and see how close they are.

 

[rsparks64]

A lot of research labs in industry and academia had black countertops made of slate or some other similar tough material. I did research for many years in universities and all of the labs had countertops that looked similar to that. The cabinets themselves did vary some and I don’t recall any that color, but who knows.

 

[infinite97]

A lot of research labs in industry and academia had black countertops made of slate or some other similar tough material. I did research for many years in universities and all of the labs had countertops that looked similar to that. The cabinets themselves did vary some and I don’t recall any that color, but who knows.

The guy I bought them from said they were “slate” tops. Is that actual stone? It seems like a super dense plastic material, but they are so freaking heavy.

I will probably have to have them cut / trimmed or I won’t use them at all - they are too deep.

 

[4xdog]

The guy I bought them from said they were “slate” tops. Is that actual stone? It seems like a super dense plastic material, but they are so freaking heavy.

I think some of the older labs at the research institute where I started my career in 1979 might have had real slate countertops. But those dated from the 1940s or earlier.

The labs I’ve worked in that were built or remodeled from at least the 1970s onward had super-heavy, chemical-resistant composite tops. Most likely a highly-filled polymer concrete of some sort.

Some of them were a glossy black finish. I have a section of one of those never used in a lab renovation on an old wooden lab cabinet in my shop now. It’s a convenient work surface for anything hot or aggressively chemical.

Others in some of my labs were a matte, uncoated surface more like natural slate. Equally durable, but the coated kind were easier to keep clean. The uncoated ones could take a stain depending more easily depending on what was put on the surface.

A bit of googling around “laboratory countertops” will no doubt yield more than you want to know, but might have some good advice around cutting countertops down in size.

 

[rsparks64]

The guy I bought them from said they were “slate” tops. Is that actual stone? It seems like a super dense plastic material, but they are so freaking heavy.

I will probably have to have them cut / trimmed or I won’t use them at all - they are too deep.

Older ones are definitely slate (stone) and are extremely heavy. Some of the newer ones might be a synthetic.

 

[ArmyVW_GuyInTX]

The guy I bought them from said they were “slate” tops. Is that actual stone? It seems like a super dense plastic material, but they are so freaking heavy.

I will probably have to have them cut / trimmed or I won’t use them at all - they are too deep.

Traditional science/lab tables came with black Vermont slate surfaces. Very Heavy!

FYI these can be put into a laser if you wanted to raster a design into the surface - think laser etched slate drinkware coaster but on a mammoth scale.