MAC-MOD Analytical

What MAC-MOD Analytical does

MAC-MOD Analytical is a privately held specialty distributor and technical solutions provider for the chromatography market, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The company does not manufacture a unified platform product; instead, it curates and distributes a broad portfolio of HPLC, UHPLC, GC, and chiral columns under third-party brands (Avantor ACE, HALO, Fortis, Evosphere, MONOBIO, ProntoSil, ColumnTek Enantiocel, AMT MarvelXACT) alongside its own proprietary sub-brands (MAC-MOD Safety Solutions, MAC-MOD MemBrain SPE consumables, and MAC-MOD Chromatography Solutions including Lifeguard pre-column filters). Its value proposition centers on applying 30+ years of chromatography expertise to help laboratory customers select the right column and develop reliable methods for separations spanning pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, environmental, clinical, cannabis, food and beverage, industrial chemical, forensic toxicology, and academic end markets.

The company generates revenue primarily through hardware sales of columns, SPE consumables, safety accessories, bulk media, fittings, and method development kits, with pricing structured as transactional unit pricing for catalog items and quote-based pricing for specialty, preparative, or bulk configurations. GTM is sales-led B2B with technical support embedded in the buying process: direct phone and email ordering supplemented by a proprietary e-commerce shop, plus an extensive content-marketing engine (application notes, webinars, white papers, a free Avantor ACE LC Translation Tool) used to generate inbound demand from chromatography professionals.

The firm is small (11–50 employees), family-led by President & CEO Geoff Faden and National Sales Manager Edward Faden, and operates without disclosed institutional investors, funding rounds, M&A activity, or geographic expansion outside the US. There are no disclosed certifications, patents, or regulatory milestones in the source material.

Name

MAC-MOD Analytical

Legal name

MAC-MOD Analytical

Website

https://mac-mod.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Privately held specialty distributor founded in 1986 that curates HPLC, UHPLC, GC columns, SPE consumables, and accessories from multiple premium brands, serving pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, environmental, clinical, and other laboratory end markets with technical sales support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Chromatography Columns and Consumables

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Analytical Instruments & Chromatography Systems (HLAGAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Mass Spectrometry & Spectroscopy Instruments (HLAGAIAB)

Keywords

• Chromatography columns
• HPLC columns
• UHPLC columns
• Solid-phase extraction
• Laboratory safety products

Headquarters

HQ city

Chadds Ford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Chromatography Columns Sales: Sale of HPLC, UHPLC, GC, and chiral columns from proprietary and branded lines (Avantor ACE, HALO, Fortis, Evosphere, MONOBIO, ProntoSil). Products include analytical, microbore, capillary, nano, preparative, and semi-preparative columns with various bonded phases (C18, C8, HILIC, SEC, chiral, etc.).
2. Safety Solutions and Accessories: Sale of chromatography accessories including safety caps, waste containers, fittings, ferrules, tubing, guard columns, and pre-column filters. Branded products include MAC-MOD Safety Solutions, SafetyWasteCaps, and parts/fittings.
3. SPE Products: Sale of Solid-Phase Extraction products including cartridges, disks, extraction tips, 96-well filter plates, and 96-well plates under the MAC-MOD MemBrain brand.
4. Bulk Media: Sale of bulk chromatography media (silica-based stationary phases) for column packing from HALO and ProntoSil brands.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

MAC-MOD Analytical is a specialty distributor of chromatography products for HPLC, UHPLC, and GC applications. The company curates and resells columns, SPE consumables, safety accessories, bulk media, fittings, and method development kits from multiple manufacturers including Avantor ACE, HALO, Fortis, Evosphere, MONOBIO, ProntoSil, and ColumnTek Enantiocel, while also offering proprietary MAC-MOD branded safety, chromatography, and SPE products. Its differentiator is the combination of technical consulting, column selection guidance, and an extensive resource library of application notes and webinars supporting laboratory separations.

Product overview

MAC-MOD Analytical is a specialty distributor and technical solutions provider for chromatography products, founded in 1986 and headquartered in Chadds Ford, PA. The company does not manufacture a single unified platform product; rather, it offers a curated portfolio of chromatography columns, solid-phase extraction (SPE) products, safety solutions, method development tools, and precision parts across multiple distributed sub-brands. The product lineup centers on HPLC and UHPLC columns (under Avantor® ACE®, HALO®, Fortis®, Evosphere®, MONOBIO, ProntoSil brands), GC columns (Avantor® Hichrom GC), chiral separations (ColumnTek® Enantiocel®, MAC-MOD Chiral), bioanalytical columns, SPE consumables (MAC-MOD MemBrain), laboratory safety equipment (MAC-MOD Safety Solutions), method development kits (Avantor® ACE® Chromsword), and an LC Translation Tool (Excel-based software for method transfer). The company also distributes complementary products such as guard columns, bulk media, microbore/capillary/nano columns, and precision fittings including AMT MarvelXACT™ fittings. MAC-MOD's core value proposition is applying 30+ years of technical expertise to help customers select optimal columns and conditions for their separation needs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Evosphere®: Monodisperse particle columns brand.
• MONOBIO
• MAC-MOD Safety Solutions
• MAC-MOD MemBrain
• MAC-MOD Chromatography Solutions
• ProntoSil
• HALO®
• Fortis®
• Avantor® ACE®
• Avantor® Hichrom GC
• ColumnTek® Enantiocel®
• AMT MarvelXACT

Products and services

• HPLC / UHPLC / GC Columns Core chromatography column offering covering HPLC columns (Avantor Alltima HP, Apollo, Genesis, Partisphere, Ultrasphere, Fortis, HALO, ProntoSil, UniverSil), UHPLC columns, bioanalytical, HILIC, LC-MS, chiral, normal-phase (NPLC), preparative/semi-preparative, microbore/capillary/nano, guard, and trap columns for laboratory separations.
• SPE Products (Cartridges, Disks, Tips, 96-Well Plates) Solid-phase extraction consumables including SPE Cartridges, SPE Disks, SPE Extraction Tips, SPE 96 Well Filter Plates, and SPE 96 Well Plates, primarily sold under the MAC-MOD MemBrain brand for laboratory sample preparation workflows.
• Safety Solutions Laboratory safety equipment including SafetyCaps, SafetyWasteCaps, exhaust filters, waste containers, and associated fittings and adapters designed to limit hazardous solvent exposure in HPLC and UHPLC systems.
• Method Development Kits Method development kits including Avantor ACE Chromsword and standard ACE Method Development Kits designed to accelerate UHPLC and HPLC method development through systematic stationary phase screening for laboratory analysts.
• Bulk Media Bulk chromatography media including HALO bulk media, HALO BioClass bulk media, HALO HILIC bulk media, and ProntoSil bulk media supplied as silica-based stationary phases for custom column packing.
• Parts and Fittings Precision parts and fittings including AMT MarvelXACT finger-tightened UHPLC fittings and MAC-MOD branded fittings, tubing, filters, and connectors for HPLC and UHPLC chromatography systems.
• Avantor ACE LC Translation Tool Excel-based software tool provided free of charge to help simplify HPLC method translation and method transfer between column formats, using original method and column details along with dwell volume parameters to auto-generate translated methods.

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Phenomenex: Chromatography columns, SPE, and sample-preparation consumables manufacturer with a wide HPLC/UHPLC/GC product line. Direct competitor to MAC-MOD's distributed Avantor ACE, HALO and Fortis portfolios, serving the same pharma, environmental, and clinical lab customers.
• Restek Corporation: Specialty manufacturer and distributor of GC and HPLC columns, accessories, and reference standards. Competes with MAC-MOD in analytical chromatography consumables, especially for environmental, clinical, and food-safety laboratories.
• Bio-Rad Laboratories: Life-science research and clinical diagnostics company with chromatography standards, HPLC columns, and biopharma-focused separation products. Overlaps with MAC-MOD in bioanalytical and biopharma separations.
• ES Industries: Specialty HPLC/UHPLC column manufacturer (Chromegabond, Epic, Aeris) focused on small-to-mid lab customers. A smaller direct competitor in the same HPLC/UHPLC column niche that MAC-MOD serves.
• SiliCycle / Silicycle (now Biotage): Specialty silica-based chromatography products and SPE consumables manufacturer. Competes in SPE and bulk-media adjacencies where MAC-MOD's MemBrain and bulk-media offerings participate.

Broad incumbents

• Waters Corporation: Major analytical instrument and chromatography consumables company (UPLC columns, ACQUITY, Empower software). A broad incumbent that competes at the system-plus-column level and could absorb MAC-MOD-style specialty distribution into its own channels.
• Agilent Technologies: Diversified analytical instruments and chromatography consumables provider (ZORBAX, InfinityLab columns). Competes broadly for the same laboratory chromatography budgets in pharma, environmental, and food testing.
• Shimadzu Scientific Instruments: Global chromatography and mass spectrometry manufacturer offering HPLC/UHPLC columns and systems. Competes for the same instrument-plus-column wallets as MAC-MOD's distributed brands.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Chromatography Consumables): Broad life-sciences tools incumbent with a large HPLC column and consumables portfolio (Hypersil GOLD, Accucore, etc.). Competes for the same chromatography budgets and is a plausible strategic acquirer of specialty distributors like MAC-MOD.
• Avantor (VWR) — Chromatography & Lab Products: MAC-MOD is a distributor of Avantor's ACE and Hichrom GC column brands, so Avantor is both a principal supplier and a broad-incumbent competitive channel. Owns the VWR distribution footprint that competes for the same chromatography budget as MAC-MOD's direct-sales motion.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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