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Lancaster Laboratories

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Founder
  
Earl H. Hess

Revenue
  
115 million USD

Number of employees
  
1,200

Area served
  
Worldwide

Founded
  
1961

Number of locations
  
2

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Industry
  
Contract Analytical Services

Services
  
Biopharmaceutical Environmental Sciences Pharmaceutical

Website
  
http://lancasterlabs.com/

Headquarters
  
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

Parent organizations
  
Eurofins Scientific, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo Fisher Scientific Germany BV & Co KG

Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the United States. They specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services.

Headquartered near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company employs 1200 employees worldwide. Their clients include businesses, industries, and consultants in more than 30 countries, including 19 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

History

Lancaster Laboratories was founded by Dr. Earl H. Hess in 1961 as a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) lab with three employees, intending to provide analytical services to area agribusinesses and industries.

The company claims several distinctions:

  • They were the first laboratory accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
  • They prepared the first qualifications manual in the lab industry and implemented a total quality management system in 1989
  • They pioneered computerized Laboratory Information Management Systems in the 1970s and designed a model automated system for retrieval and storage of samples — the only laboratory to have such a system

    • Dr. Hess retired in 1995, selling Lancaster Laboratories to Thermo TerraTech. The company was again sold in 2000 to Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison and yet again in August 2005 to Fisher Scientific. Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific. Eurofins_Scientific acquired the company in 2011.

    Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as Chairman of the Board. Tim S. Oostdyk serves as President.

    References

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