Lancaster Laboratories Inc., is one of the largest contract laboratories in the United States. They specialize in pharmaceutical and environmental analytical services.[1]
The company employs 750 employees in a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) 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.
Lancaster Laboratories[2] 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.[3]
The company claims several distinctions:
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.[4]. Fisher Scientific was acquired by Thermo Electron in 2007 to form Thermo Fisher Scientific. Eurofins Scientific[5] acquired the company in 2011.
Dr. J. Wilson Hershey serves as president of the company.[6]