About AnalytiChem USA, Inc.

AnalytiChem USA is proud to include two convenient locations within the state of Maine that house NELAnalytical and manufacture Redipor, our high-quality prepared media product line. AnalytiChem USA employs approximately 70 full and part-time employees within Maine.

NELAnalytical boasts several fully accredited Environmental Testing Laboratories. Water and Chemistry Testing is performed in the Winslow facility at 227 China Road. Radon, Asbestos, Indoor Air Quality, and Food Testing services are performed in the Westbrook facility at 120 Main Street.

Our USA-based culture media manufacturing center, also located at the Winslow facility, offers an FDA registered production area complete with 3 Class 100 EC (Environmentally Controlled) Rooms where an assortment of laboratory products are manufactured. These products include culture media agar plates and slants, broth bottles and tubes, as well as vials of dyes and diluents. These products support the pharmaceutical, clinical, diagnostic, veterinary, and environmental monitoring industries.

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History

The business was founded in 1972 as Maine Poultry Consultants and later became Maine Poultry Consultants/Northeast Laboratory Services.

After a decline in the poultry business in Maine, causing the closure of Maine Poultry Consultants, the business served its clients under the name of Northeast Laboratory Services (NEL) for the next several years.

In 1997, NEL merged with Binax, Inc., a Portland-based research and development firm. Binax/NEL operated as a separate entity to the Portland facility, complete with its own management team and accounting functions until April of 2001 when the merger was dissolved, and Rodney “Beau” Mears became NEL’s CEO and President.

In November of 2021, Beau retired and NEL was purchased by AnalytiChem Holding GmbH, an Eschborn, Germany-based company whose mission is to create a family of companies providing high-quality analytical chemistry and reference materials to laboratories around the world.