Carmeuse Dundas donates laboratory glassware to local college

What do you do with a storeroom full of laboratory glassware that you no longer need? It was a question that Kerry Moffat, a laboratory technician at the Carmeuse Dundas Operation in Ontario, Canada, had the answer to. 

“We wanted to support our local Conestoga College, as we have had many talented co-operative education students work with us in the lab,” explained Moffat. “We all know that colleges have been adversely affected through the pandemic, so I reached out to see if there was a need for all the different types of glassware we could offer.” 

It was an offer gratefully received by the college with thousands of dollars of high-quality glassware given to its biotechnology laboratories. “We cleaned out our back storage room and donated all of our glassware that had never been used and that we do not currently use,” continued Moffat. 

The glassware will be used by students on Conestoga College’s Biotechnology diploma program, as well as on the Bachelor of Biotechnology degree and Medical Laboratory Sciences diploma, which the college aims to start offering in the next year or so.