Diversification

In a part of the upstairs office space in the new building around 1976 a new company named “Standard Instrumentation, Inc” (SI) was created as

In the fall of 1979 the company offered a new quality control service program to all laboratories involved in coal testing throughout the world. In

The International Coal Testing Conference (CTC) was conceived and planned by the corporate staff of Std Labs in the fall of 1980. The idea was

In the early 1980s Jim Howarth of Mineral Consultants Incorporated (MCI) of Adelaide, Australia attended an International Coal Testing Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. At that

IN 1997 Std Labs initiated a new wholly owned consulting service organized and lead by Mick Samples.

In 1994 Std Labs decided to use a part of the Evansville Coal Laboratory to develop an environmental effort to augment its coal business in

In 1994 Std Labs decided to use a part of the Evansville Coal Laboratory to develop an environmental effort to augment its coal business in

In 2010, SL made an asset purchase of AC&S, Inc. lab instrumentation, equipment and other assets. AC&S is a chemical manufacturing and blending company located

Std Labs announced in August of 1981 the creation of a technical journal dedicated to the international coal industry. The journal was published quarterly in