What Elementar Americas does

Elementar Americas Inc. is the North American operating subsidiary of the German Elementar group, incorporated in New York and headquartered at 119 Comac Street, Ronkonkoma, NY. Established in 1999 to serve the United States and Canada, the company sells and supports analytical instrumentation for determining carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and chlorine in organic and inorganic materials, with roots in over 125 years of elemental analysis innovation originating at Heraeus in Hanau, Germany.\n\nThe product portfolio spans organic elemental analyzers (UNICUBE, vario EL/MACRO/MAX cube, rapid CS/OXY cube, trace SN cube), Dumas-method nitrogen and protein analyzers (the new exceed PLUS series), TOC analyzers (acquray, enviro TOC, soli TOC cube, vario TOC cube), inorganic inductive analyzers (inductar series), optical emission spectrometers (ferro.lyte), and a stable isotope analysis stack built around the isoprime precisION and visION mass spectrometers with multiple chromatography, dual-inlet, EA, and headspace inlets. The company also sells Epsilon-series freeze dryers and proprietary software (lyticOS for instrument control and ArDB as a results database), and operates an Elementar Academy for customer training. GMP-compliant instruments (vario EL cube, vario TOC cube) are positioned for pharmaceutical manufacturing.\n\nElementar Americas generates revenue through direct enterprise sales of hardware, licensing of proprietary software, recurring service and maintenance contracts, and consumables and spare parts ordered through the Elementar Customer Portal. Customers span chemicals and pharmaceuticals, agriculture and food science, environmental testing and climate research, materials science (cement, metals, ceramics, polymers), energy (coal, coke, biomass, refinery), and forensics and academia. Marketing and customer engagement are multi-channel, combining a website and customer portal, an Elements industry publication, social media, newsletters, and trade show participation at events such as analytica.

Name

Elementar Americas

Legal name

Elementar Americas Inc.

Website

https://elementaramericas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Elementar Americas is the US-and-Canadian subsidiary of the German Elementar group, selling and servicing high-precision analytical instruments for elemental, isotopic, and total organic carbon analysis across pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, materials, energy, and forensic end markets, with recurring consumables and service revenue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Analytical Instrumentation

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Process Analytical Instrumentation (Gas analyzers, spectroscopy, pH/ORP, conductivity) (IMAGAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Metrology, Calibration & Testing Equipment (Balances, pH/DO, Standards) (HLAGAIAL), Emerging Contaminants Testing & Risk Management (PFAS, microplastics, pharmaceuticals) (EUANAJAF), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) & Industrial Contaminants Testing (Dioxins, PCBs, PAHs) (AFALAFAE)

Keywords

• Elemental analyzers
• CHNOS analyzers
• TOC analyzers
• Isotope ratio mass spectrometry
• Nitrogen protein analyzers

Headquarters

HQ city

Ronkonkoma

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Analytical Instrumentation Hardware Sales: Sale of elemental analyzers including CHNOS, TOC, nitrogen/protein, IRMS, and optical emission spectrometers. Products include both standard and trace-level detection systems for research and industrial applications.
2. Software Licensing: Licensing of proprietary software including lyticOS and ArDB for instrument control and laboratory data management.
3. Service and Maintenance Contracts: Ongoing service offerings including telephone support, remote diagnostics, on-site service, maintenance, and system validation/certification. Direct ordering of consumables and spare parts through customer portal.
4. Consumables and Spare Parts: Sale of consumables, wear parts, and spare parts through the Elementar Customer Portal for their installed base of instruments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Elementar Americas manufactures and sells analytical instrumentation for the determination of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, and chlorine in organic and inorganic materials. The portfolio spans organic and inorganic elemental analyzers, TOC analyzers, nitrogen/protein analyzers using the Dumas method, stable isotope ratio mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers, chromatography inlets, freeze dryers, and proprietary lyticOS instrument software and ArDB laboratory data management software. The company supplies instruments, consumables, spare parts, and ongoing service and maintenance to research institutions, universities, government laboratories, and industrial customers across the United States and Canada.

Product overview

Elementar Americas is a manufacturer of analytical instruments for elemental and isotopic analysis. The portfolio includes CHNOS organic elemental analyzers (UNICUBE, vario EL cube, vario MACRO cube, vario MAX cube, rapid CS cube, rapid OXY cube, trace SN cube, UNICUBE trace), nitrogen and protein analyzers using the Dumas method (rapid MAX N exceed PLUS, rapid N exceed PLUS in the new exceed PLUS series), TOC analyzers (acquray, enviro TOC, soli TOC cube, vario TOC cube), inorganic elemental analyzers (inductar CS cube, inductar EL cube, inductar ONH cube), optical emission spectrometers (ferro.lyte), stable isotope analyzers including mass spectrometers (isoprime precisION, isoprime visION solutions), chromatography inlets (GC5, LiquiFace), dual inlet analyzers (iso DUAL INLET), EA inlets (iso TOC cube, vario ISOTOPE cube, vario ISOTOPE select, vario PYRO cube), headspace analyzers (iso FLOW, iso FLOW GHG), freeze dryers (Epsilon series LSCplus models), and software solutions (ArDB, lyticOS). The company also provides GMP service including installation to requalification. Based on over 125 years of innovation originating from Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, Elementar Americas serves agriculture, chemicals, environmental testing, energy, materials science, and forensics sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• exceed PLUS series: High-performance nitrogen and protein determination product line including rapid MAX N exceed PLUS and rapid N exceed PLUS analyzers.
• UNICUBE
• rapid CS cube
• rapid OXY cube
• trace SN cube
• vario EL cube
• vario MACRO cube
• vario MAX cube
• isoprime precisION
• isoprime visION
• ferro.lyte
• Epsilon series
• lyticOS
• ArDB
• acquray
• enviro TOC
• soli TOC cube
• vario TOC cube
• inductar CS cube
• inductar EL cube
• inductar ONH cube

Products and services

• rapid CS cube

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Agilent Technologies: Provides mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, and ICP-OES/ICP-MS platforms that overlap with Elementar's IRMS and OES lines. While not a direct combustion analyzer competitor, Agilent bundles adjacent techniques into large enterprise deals that compete for the same budget pool.
• PerkinElmer: Supplies CHN/O elemental analyzers (2400 Series), ICP-OES, ICP-MS, and TOC systems, with strength in pharma and food testing markets directly overlapping with Elementar Americas' primary customer segments.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Global analytical instrument giant offering Flash EA combustion analyzers, IRMS systems, TOC analyzers, and mass spectrometers. Competes with Elementar Americas across essentially every product category but as part of a much broader life sciences and analytical portfolio.
• Shimadzu Scientific Instruments: Japanese-origin manufacturer with TOC analyzers, ICP-OES, mass spectrometers, and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Competes most directly in the TOC and isotope analysis segments and serves the same pharma, environmental, and food testing customers in North America.
• Bruker Corporation: Offers IRMS, ICP-MS, and other mass spectrometry products through its Bruker Daltonics and OPTIMA divisions. Overlaps with Elementar's isotope ratio mass spectrometry business and competes in geosciences and environmental research accounts.

Emerging players

• Mettler Toledo: Provides laboratory balances, titrators, and thermal analysis instruments that complement (rather than directly compete with) Elementar's CHNOS portfolio. Overlap is in regulated pharma QC workflows where Mettler's balances and Elementar's analyzers both serve GMP-compliant environments.

Direct peers

• LECO Corporation: US-based manufacturer of CHN/O/S combustion elemental analyzers, oxygen/nitrogen/hydrogen determinators, and metallographic instruments. Most directly comparable to Elementar Americas in elemental analysis instrumentation with overlapping customer base in metals, academic, and environmental labs.
• Eurovector Srl: Italian manufacturer specializing in elemental analyzers (CHNS/O) and pyrolysis units, including the EA3000 and Prep series. Small but direct niche competitor in CHNS combustion analysis serving academic and industrial customers in North America via distributors.
• Analytik Jena: German-based manufacturer of multi EA, compEAct, and other elemental analyzers plus ICP-OES and TOC instruments. Head-to-head competitor for CHNOS, TOC, and mercury analyzers with comparable horizontal market reach across environmental, food, and pharma applications.

Regional players

• PAC (Petroleum Analyzer Company): Houston-based supplier of analyzers for petroleum, biofuels, and petrochemical testing including sulfur, nitrogen, and elemental analyzers. Comparable technology stack with strongest overlap in Elementar's Energy customer segment (coal, coke, refinery testing).

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/elementarUSA
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/elementargroup
• Facebookfacebook.com/ElementarUSA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/elementar-americas-inc-

Compliance1 record

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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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