Stockroom · Leuven, Flemish Brabant
The glass a bench runs on.
Borosilicate beakers, flasks, cylinders and funnels; wash bottles, tubing, stoppers and filter paper; racks, stands, clamps and boss heads. Chemnotia stocks them in Leuven and quotes by email against the part list you send.
Capacities and classes as printed by the maker
What we are
Four lines that set the scope of the stockroom before any list is read.
Scope
Every line in the stockroom is a piece of glass, a rack, a fitting or a consumable that sits on a bench. Nothing that goes into the glass is sold here.
Glassware and bench goods only
Marking
The volume and the tolerance class you read on the glass are the figures we repeat in the price list, word for word, and nothing more.
Capacities and tolerances as printed by the maker
Pricing
There is no web shop and no basket. You send a list, we read it against stock and reply with a priced copy of the same list.
Quoted by email against a part list
Not carried
We do not stock solvents, reagents or controlled substances, and we do not issue a calibration certificate for anything we sell.
No reagents, no chemicals, no calibration
Six families
The stockroom is organised around six lines. Three of them have a page of their own with every size listed.
Low form with spout, tall form and heavy wall. Graduated for indication, not measurement, exactly as the maker prints the scale on the wall.
5 ml to 5 l
scale for indication only
Narrow-neck and wide-neck conicals, flasks with a ground joint, filter flasks with a side arm, and volumetric flasks with the stopper that matches the neck.
25 ml to 5 l
Class A or Class B, as marked
Measuring cylinders and funnels
Cylinders on a hexagonal base with a pour lip; funnels in short-stem, long-stem and powder form; watch glasses by diameter.
10 ml to 2 l · 40 mm to 200 mm
class as marked; diameters as listed
Wash bottles, tubing and stoppers
Squeeze bottles with a bent delivery tube, silicone and PVC tubing by bore and wall, rubber and ground-glass stoppers by size number or joint.
250 ml and 500 ml · bore 2 mm to 12 mm
tubing cut by the metre
Filter paper and disposable pipettes
Qualitative papers by grade and retention, flat or pleated, and glass and polyethylene pipettes for transfer work.
diameters 55 mm to 240 mm
box quantity as packed by the mill
Racks, stands, clamps and boss heads
Tube racks by hole diameter, retort stands by rod length and base mass, clamps by jaw, boss heads by the rods they join.
rod 500 mm to 1000 mm
base mass as listed
How an order runs
From the first email to the box on your bench, in the order it happens.
01 · The list
Send a part list by email or through the request page. A good list has one line per item: the family, the form, the capacity or size, and the quantity. If you know the maker’s part number, add it; if you only know what the item looks like, describe it and we will match it. A list of a single beaker and a list of two hundred lines are handled the same way, by the same person, in the order they arrive.
02 · The reading
We read every line against what is on the shelf. Where a size is not stocked, the reply says so and offers the nearest capacity or the lead time to bring it in. Where a tolerance class is not stated, we quote Class B and mark the line so you can change it. Nothing is substituted without a note beside it.
03 · The price list
The reply is a priced copy of your list, by email, with a lead time on every line and the box quantity where an item is packed in tens or dozens. It is an offer that stands for the period written on it; it is not an invoice, and nothing is reserved until you confirm.
04 · Confirmation
You confirm by email. Only then does stock move. Split deliveries are possible when part of a list is on the shelf and part is on order; we say which lines fall in which delivery before you agree to it, never afterwards.
05 · Packing and dispatch
Glass is packed in dividers, never loose, and racks and stands travel with their rods and bases separated so nothing bends in the box. A packing list rides in the parcel and a copy goes by email so you can check the box against the list line by line.
06 · Hand-over
Count the box against the packing list. Breakage in transit is reported by email with the line and the number of pieces, and the line is re-sent. Wrong items go back and the right ones follow; nobody is asked to keep what they did not order.
What we value
Plain descriptions, printed figures, and a reply that says exactly what will arrive and when. We would rather tell you an item is not stocked than send the next size up without asking, and we would rather quote a box than pretend a box can be broken.
What we turn down
Requests for reagents, solvents or any chemical; requests for a calibration or a certificate; anything for medical, diagnostic, clinical or veterinary use; repairs to broken glass; and any judgement on whether an assembly or a method is safe for your work, which belongs with the people responsible for your bench, not with a supplier of glass.
Questions
The seven that arrive most often, answered as they are answered by email.
Do you supply chemicals or reagents?
Are these items calibrated?
Can I order a single beaker?
What tolerance class is this glassware?
Do you sell to schools?
Do you ship outside Belgium?
Can you advise which item I need?
One list. One reply.
Send the part list as it stands, however rough, and it comes back priced, with a lead time on every line.
Request a price listRead Monday to Friday · answered by email
Reach the stockroom
One address, one form, fixed hours.
Mailbox
Every enquiry, list and confirmation goes through this one address; there is no second inbox and no telephone line.
Hours
Lists that arrive outside those hours are read the next working morning, in the order they came in.
Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:00
Placed in
The stockroom is in Leuven; dispatch and collection are arranged by email, not by walk-in.
Leuven, Flemish Brabant
Service area
Neighbouring countries by agreement on the price list; beyond that we decline.
Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
The form
The request page carries the form and a note on how to write a list that quotes cleanly.
Plate 1
Empty tubes as they arrive from the glassworks, before racking. The only picture on this page; the rest is the list.