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ABOUT US


Columbia Analytical Instruments is a South Carolina based manufacturing business focused on innovative laboratory products. The company supports laboratories with practical, dependable solutions designed to improve daily operations, testing workflows, and product performance.


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Business team meeting with executive presenting financial growth charts and analytics in modern conference roomOUR HISTORY

 Columbia Analytical Instruments was conceived in the early 2000's as a department of Columbia Analytical Laboratories, originally incorporated in 1986. This mid-sized lab served clients successfully all over SC for 17 years.

In 2003 the lab was sold and CAI (Columbia Analytical Instruments) was formed as a stand-alone manufacturing facility.


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Business team in conference room reviewing analytics charts and data presentation on screenOUR HOME

  From the mountains to the beaches, South Carolina is a place of breathtaking beauty and elegant, friendly people. The staff at CAI feel blessed and more than a little fortunate to be where the winters are mild (but still an occasional snowfall) to Famously Hot in the summertime.


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 OUR GOAL

 The Goal at CAI is to place ourselves in our clients shoes. Knowing the laboratory market is both price and quality sensitive, our products are thoroughly evaluated prior to launch.

Using our experience as a base, every aspect of production is vetted to ensure innovative quality control strategies and cost effective procedures result in first class products our partner laboratories find indispensable.


CAI's Green Philosophy began a long time ago. From the farmland of Northern Michigan, we realized a waste-not-want-not policy.

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Originally, we packaged COD tubes in foam pad manufactured for us at a cost of about $1.00 each. We were throwing away dozens of small "inner sleeves" of cardboard which the glass culture tubes were shipped in.

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24/7

Top-notch Quality Service

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PRODUCTS



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COD TUBES

 COD Tubes are produced using ACS/Primary Standard Grade chemicals and our Method has received EPA Acceptability. Tubes come economically packaged in cases of 300 (2 inner boxes of 150)

** HAZARDOUS MATERIALS **

Contains Mercury. Dispose of according to local, state and federal regulations.

 



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GGA STANDARDS

 GGA Standards are created following the description found in "Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater" 150mg of glucose and 150 mg of glutamic acid are added to a 1 liter Class A volumetric flask and brought to volume.

CAI GGA Standards are verified using our performance based QC System.

Initial Lot Quality is confirmed by analyzing for COD. Then, a test rack is created and sterilized. TOC, COD and Standard Plate Count are performed. This data is incorporated into the QC Document provided with each box of GGA Standard.

Contact Us


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Columbia Analytical Instruments
mgilbert@caisc.com
(803) 760-2298
7435 Broad River Road
Columbia SC, 29063

923199
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