- Lancaster Laboratories
Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the
United States . They specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services. [http://www.lancasterlabs.com/about/whoweare.htm Who we are] ]The company employs 750 employees in a convert|175000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility near
Lancaster, Pennsylvania . Annual sales are $70 million. 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 [ [http://lancasterlaboratories.com Lancaster Laboratories site] ] was founded by Dr. Earl H. Hess in 1961 as a convert|2500|sqft|m2|sing=on lab with three employees, intending to provide analytical services to area agribusinesses and industries. [http://www.lancasterlabs.com/about/history.htm History of Lancaster Laboratories] ]
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 atotal 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
* The company has been onWorking Mother magazine's list of "Best Companies for Working Mothers" 11 times since 1989.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 . [ [http://fisherscientific.com Fisher Scientific site] ] . Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific.Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as president of the company. [ [http://www.lancasterlabs.com/about/welcome.htm Welcome letter] ]
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