The name Baluke has represented quality dental fabrication since 1949. Mr. Walter Baluke Sr., co-founder of Shaw Laboratory, set a standard in progressive laboratory service that was revolutionary in its day. Duane and his brother Walter (Skip) followed in their father’s footsteps, first by working after school and on weekends, then as summer student trainees and finally as full-time apprentice technicians studying all phases of the dental laboratory business in Canada. After their father’s retirement from the business, they set up their own dental laboratory in Ontario under the name of Baltor Dental Laboratory. Eventually this evolved into Baluke Dental Studios, now one of the leading full-service dental labs in Canada.