Month: June 2016

With a price tag of $30 million, Detroit Zoo’s new Polk Penguin Conservation Center is the largest penguin facility in the world. Featuring a 326,000-gallon, 25-foot-deep aquatic area with two acrylic underwater tunnels and a 38-foot-long underwater viewing window — visitors can watch penguins as they dive, swim and navigate through the technological marvel that is now home to 82 birds. When the zoo expressed their need for penguin examination tables, Oak Park-based Mopec stepped in and worked with habitat designers …

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Mopec, an Oak Park-based mortuary and pathology equipment manufacturer, has donated two custom medical exam tables to the Detroit Zoo’s new $30 million Polk Penguin Conservation Center. “The Detroit Zoo is right around the corner from our headquarters,” says Jane VanDusen, CEO of Mopec. “When we received the (request for quotation) from the zoo, our staff decided they wanted to customize and donate the tables.” The two tables will allow zoo veterinary staff and zookeepers to provide medical treatments and …

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