What Analytical Laboratories does

Analytical Laboratories Inc. (ALI) is a privately held, EPA-certified environmental testing laboratory founded in 1971 and headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The company provides scientific sampling and testing services across a broad range of matrices including drinking water, wastewater, soil, food, fuel, hazardous waste, petroleum products, and de-icer brines, serving municipalities, industrial clients, mining operations, commercial establishments, and private well owners across Idaho, Eastern Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Washington, Nevada, and Canada.

The laboratory operates from a roughly 7,700 sq. ft. four-building complex in Boise, equipped with three GC Mass Spectrometers, Gas Chromatographs, Ion Chromatographs, and an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS). ALI maintains ISO 17025 accreditation through A2LA, EPA drinking water certification, and state-level accreditations from the Idaho Department of Health & Welfare and Oregon Health Authority. Its Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) testing department conducts freshwater toxicity analyses per EPA methods using Pimephales Promelas, Ceriodaphnia Dubia, and Selenastrum Capricornutum bioassays for NPDES permit compliance.

ALI operates a fee-for-service model with per-test pricing ranging from $12 (water/sediment) to $2,385 (Synthetic Organic Compounds analysis), supported by an in-house sampling service and the Element ClientConnect online results portal. The go-to-market relies on direct customer engagement, professional affiliations with A2LA, AOAC, IEHA, IFT, IPLA, and IRWA, and subcontractor relationships for specialized geo-chemical and radiological work, rather than active marketing campaigns. The company is privately held with no disclosed funding events, parent company, or institutional ownership.

Name

Analytical Laboratories

Legal name

Analytical Laboratories Inc.

Website

https://analyticallabsinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1971

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Analytical Laboratories Inc. is a privately held, EPA-certified environmental testing laboratory founded in 1971 in Boise, Idaho, offering drinking water, wastewater, fuel, soil, and bio-monitoring testing services to municipalities, industrial clients, and private well owners across the Western US and Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Laboratory Testing Services

NAICS

Testing Laboratories and Services (54138)

SIC

Services-Testing Laboratories (8734)

akta.pro primary industry

Laboratory Testing & Analytical Services (in-house/contract labs; microbiology, metals, organics) (EUANAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Food Testing Laboratories (Microbiological, Chemical, Allergen) (AFALAAAA)

Keywords

• Environmental laboratory testing
• Drinking water analysis
• Wastewater testing services
• Whole effluent toxicity testing
• Fuel and soil testing

Headquarters

HQ city

Boise

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Laboratory Testing Services: Fee-for-service testing model where customers pay per test or test series. Pricing varies by test type, ranging from $17 (basic metals) to $2,385 (Synthetic Organic Compounds). Services include drinking water, environmental, wastewater, fuels, and bio-monitoring tests. Additional revenue from sampling services with travel costs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Analytical Laboratories Inc. is a full-service, EPA-certified environmental laboratory performing scientific sampling and analytical testing since 1971. The lab conducts biological, bacteriological, physical, and chemical (organic and inorganic) analyses on drinking water, wastewater, soil, food, fertilizer, hazardous waste, petroleum products, and de-icer brines. Field sampling services and an online client results portal complement the in-house testing menu, with the company serving both B2B clients (municipalities, industrial, mining, commercial) and B2C individual well owners.

Product overview

Analytical Laboratories Inc. (ALI) is a full-service certified environmental laboratory providing scientific sampling and testing services since 1971. The company operates as a single-brand laboratory services operation offering comprehensive testing across multiple departments: Microbiology, Environmental Chemistry, Fuels, Metals, Bio-Monitoring, and Organics. The portfolio includes drinking water analysis, environmental and wastewater testing, de-icers and soils analysis, fuels and lube oil testing, and Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing services. ALI also provides field sampling services and offers the Element ClientConnect online portal for client result access. The laboratory serves a multi-state region and operates approximately 7,700 sq. ft. of laboratory space in Boise, Idaho.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Full-Service Environmental Laboratory Testing Comprehensive certified laboratory analysis covering biological, bacteriological, physical, and chemical (organic and inorganic) examinations across drinking water, wastewater, soil, food, fertilizer, hazardous waste, petroleum products, and de-icer brine samples for municipalities, industrial clients, and individual customers.
• Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing Bio-monitoring service offering freshwater toxicity testing for municipalities and industrial clients, with EPA-guided chronic and acute toxicity analyses on whole and partial effluents using Pimephales Promelas (fathead minnow), Ceriodaphnia Dubia, and Selenastrum Capricornutum.
• Private Well Water Testing Residential water testing for individual private well owners covering bacteria (Total Coliform / E. coli), nitrates, arsenic, uranium, iron bacteria, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, lead, copper, fluoride, hardness, and other Idaho groundwater contaminants, with per-test pricing typically $17-$40.
• Drinking Water Testing Comprehensive drinking water analysis services including metals, radiochemicals, microbiology, organics, and disinfection by-products, covering EPA methods for VOCs, SOCs, HAAs, THMs, carbamates, herbicides, pesticides, and radionuclides for municipal and water-system clients.
• Environmental and Wastewater Testing Environmental chemistry testing for wastewater and related matrices, including metals by ICP, chromium hex, microbiology (coliforms, E. coli), non-metals (BOD, COD, pH), organics, and Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing (WETT) per EPA, Standard Methods, and USGS protocols.
• De-Icers and Soils Testing Laboratory analysis of de-icers, road salts, brines, and soils, including total metals, cyanide, phosphate, pH, BOD, COD, ammonia, sulfate, physical tests, organic compounds (BTEX, PAHs, VOCs, pesticides), and microbiology for transportation and environmental clients.
• Fuels and Lube Oil Testing Petroleum product testing per ASTM standards covering algae, ash, bacteria, cetane number, flash and fire point (Cleveland Open Cup), cloud point, color, density, distillation, gravity, vapor pressure, total metals, water/sediment, and WSIM in jet fuel.
• Sampling Services Full-service field sampling where ALI staff travel to client sites to collect environmental samples for laboratory testing, maintaining proper chain of custody and sampling protocols; sample-collection travel costs are billed separately.

Named customers2 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Contract Laboratories for Geo-chemical and Radiological AnalysesminorOthersALI provides Geo-chemical and radiological analyses through contract laboratories for specialized testing not conducted in-house. This partnership extends their service capabilities to provide comprehensive testing services to clients needing these specialized analyses.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Microbac Laboratories: U.S. operator of multiple regional environmental testing laboratories offering drinking water, wastewater, soil, and hazardous waste services with comparable EPA-certified methods. Similar operating model to ALI but with multi-region density and broader corporate backing.
• SGS Environment, Health and Safety: Global inspection, verification, and testing company with extensive U.S. environmental laboratory capabilities in water, soil, air, and waste characterization. Targets many of the same industrial and municipal regulated-testing clients as ALI.
• ALS Environmental (ALS Global): International testing services group with a large North American environmental laboratory footprint covering drinking water, wastewater, soils, sediments, and biological testing. Overlaps with ALI on virtually every service category but operates at substantially greater scale and geographic reach.
• Bureau Veritas North America Environmental Testing: International TIC group operating water, soil, sediment, and air testing services across the U.S. Competes with ALI for industrial, municipal, and mining compliance testing, especially where large multi-state clients seek single-vendor solutions.
• Pace Analytical Life Sciences / Pace Environmental: One of the largest U.S. environmental testing networks, providing drinking water, wastewater, soil, air, and specialty chemistry services nationally. Competes with ALI for the same mining, industrial, and municipal RFPs, but at a vastly different scale and with broader service breadth.
• Eurofins Environment Testing: Global environmental testing powerhouse serving water, soil, air, PFAS, and radionuclide markets through a network of U.S. labs. Represents the largest competitive threat from scale, instrument breadth, and integrated data reporting compared to ALI's regional offering.

Direct peers

• Anatek Labs: Idaho-based environmental testing laboratory operating in the same core Treasure Valley/Idaho geography, with overlapping drinking water, wastewater, and food/agriculture testing offerings. The most direct local competitor to ALI on private well, municipal, and food testing.
• Energy Laboratories: Montana-headquartered full-service environmental testing laboratory offering drinking water, wastewater, soil, fuels, and bio-monitoring services across the Mountain West. Closely comparable to ALI in size, scope, certification profile, and multi-state regional footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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