Move to a Larger and Improved Laboratory Facility

In mid-February 2011, we moved from our old laboratory of 3,592 square feet into our new Columbia, Maryland laboratory of 5,439 square feet in a facility less than 1 mile away from our old laboratory.  While our old laboratory was largely taken as was from a prior medical services laboratory, we were able to design the layout of our new laboratory to better suit our needs.  We have added an area suitable for environmental and corrosion testing of materials, where it is well-separated from the laboratories we need to keep clean.  We have further lab areas suitable for future expanded capabilities.  Our laboratory bench and cabinetry space has increased, so we can keep more laboratory tools and implements out and readily available.

Within 1 week of our move, we had all of our spectrometers and microscopes and our thermal analysis instruments up and running again, with the exception of our EDX.  We replaced our EDX x-ray detector crystal with one having better carbon and oxygen resolution and detection than our old crystal had provided.  Fortunately, work has been pouring in since our move, since we have some very significant liabilities to pay as a result of this move!  Lorrie A. Krebs, Ph.D., Stephanie J. Roberg, M.S., and Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D. are eager to talk to you about how we can help you solve your materials characterization, development, processing, failure analysis, and quality control problems and create new materials usage opportunities for you.  Our contact information is given in the sidebar, including our e-mail addresses.  Feel free to talk to Dr. Lorrie Krebs about your corrosion, electrochemistry, metallography, and fracture failure analysis needs.  Talk to Stephanie Roberg about FTIR infra-red spectroscopy requirements and thermal analysis by thermogravimetry (TG or TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), or thermomechanical analysis (TMA).  Finally, discuss surface quantitative elemental and chemical analysis, adhesive bonding problems, and general multi-technique analysis projects with Dr. Charles Anderson.

Those of our clients who are local, please feel free to visit our new laboratory and office facility.  Or if you come by to drop off samples or to discuss a materials problem, please feel free to request a tour of the labs.

Our new XPS Surface Analysis Laboratory:

Our new SEM/EDX Laboratory:

Our new FTIR Infra-Red Spectroscopy Laboratory:

Our new Thermal Analysis Laboratory:

Our new Electrochemistry and Corrosion Evaluation Laboratory:

Our new Optical and Metallographic Microscopy Laboratory: