Lancaster Laboratories
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| Industry | Contract Analytical Services |
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| Founded | 1961 |
| Founder | Earl H. Hess |
| Headquarters | Lancaster, Pennsylvania , United States |
Number of locations | 2 |
Area served | Worldwide |
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| Revenue | $115 million |
Number of employees | 45,000 |
| Parent | Eurofins |
| Website | http://lancasterlabs.com/ |
Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the United States. They specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services.[1]
Headquartered near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the company employs 45,000 employees worldwide.[1] Their clients include businesses, industries, and consultants in more than 40 countries, including 19 of the 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
History
[edit]Lancaster Laboratories was founded by Dr. Earl H. Hess in 1961 as a 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) lab with three employees, including the first lab tech, John Snyder. Earl Hess opened the company intending to provide analytical services to area agribusinesses and industries.[2]
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.[3] Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific.[4] Eurofins Scientific acquired the company in 2011.[5]
Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as chairman of the board. Tim S. Oostdyk serves as president.[6]