General Info

Northern Analytical Laboratory was founded in 1980 and subsequently incorporated in New Hampshire in January of 1981. The laboratory, which was originally located in Amherst, N.H., is now in Merrimack, N.H. The original organizers of Northern Analytical Laboratory worked as analytical chemists in the semiconductor, aerospace and primary metals industries. They saw a need for a laboratory that specialized in trace element analysis in solid materials. Since that time, Northern Analytical has gained many years of experience in the areas of emission, atomic absorption, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission and spark source mass. In 1986, the company acquired it's first glow discharge mass spectrometer, a sensitive and comprehensive technique for the analysis of trace elements in solid materials. Combustion equipment for the analysis of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur (in solids) was added in 1995, and in 1999 inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICPMS) was also added.