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The original organizers of Northern Analytical Laboratory saw a need for a
chemical analysis laboratory specializing in trace element analysis of solid materials,
and acted to fill that need. Their many years of experience in the areas of
emission, atomic absorption, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission and spark source
mass spectrometries provided the necessary foundation, and NAL opened their own
chemical analysis laboratory providing these basic services.
Northern Analytical Laboratories was founded in 1980 and subsequently incorporated
in New Hampshire in January of 1981. The Laboratory, originally located in
Amherst, NH is now in Merrimack, NH.
In 1986 NAL acquired its first glow discharge mass spectrometer (GDMS), the most
sensitive and comprehensive technique for the analysis of trace elements in solid
materials. (They now have 3). Combustion equipment for the analysis of carbon,
nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur (in solids) was added in 1985, and in 1999 inductively
coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICPMS) was also added to their chemical analysis
laboratory.
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