AGAT Laboratories employs the most diverse group of professionals found in any commercial analytical laboratory in Canada. Their specialties range from Agronomy to Zoology and include the majority of sciences in between. AGAT has incorporated science professionals with talented business professionals, administrators and information systems specialists, to give you access to incredible scientific depth and talent. This provides you with the assurance of a secure company. This, coupled with the benefits of process streamlining and a complete understanding of client needs makes AGAT a truly dynamic community of motivated individuals seeking to perform to the best of their collective abilities to service the client.

Completeness of Agat’s Instrumentation

AGAT believes that no analytical service can be complete unless it offers the best of all the latest in analytical technology. We invest heavily in instrumentation and continually address advances and changes in each field of expertise. Investment is considered in a careful, methodical and client need based approach. We augment instrument purchases with the demonstrated ability to create custom instrumentation if equipment satisfying those needs does not already exist. This is done in the effort to create cost and time efficiencies that can be passed on to the client.

The Information Age

Information is the cornerstone of our society. The ability to collect, manage and communicate information quickly is crucial in any business operation today. To ignore the power of effective information handling is to ignore your business. AGAT Laboratories realized at a very early stage that clients would benefit greatly if we focused intensely on enhanced information handling. AGAT, therefore, developed a full-time Information Systems (IS) department dedicated to this goal and staffed it with the best hardware and software specialists available. As a result, we have made exciting strides in the applications of information handling. AGAT has the best custom designed Laboratory Information Management Systems that integrates data capture; real time statistical process control, standard and custom report generation, data integrity checking and more. We have designed web-based information management systems WebOasis for managing lubrication oil, WebRock for managing rock properties data, WebEarth for managing environmental analytical data, WebAir for managing air monitoring data and WebFluid for managing well data, which are provided as value added services to our clients. These web databases allow AGAT clients to be more cost effective in their own businesses. Full-function servers have been set up on the Internet providing client data, technical information and enhanced communications. This allows for client specific accounts to help AGAT clients better manage the analytical data AGAT provides. These web databases allow our clients to download analytical reports and data in variety of formats. These include official signed analytical reports for submission to regulatory bodies and downloadable formats for manipulation for client reports. We have the capacity for full EDI including invoicing and electronic funds exchange. We have software packages that allow full data processing such as complex modeling, information such as regulatory guidelines and methodology, object oriented development packages, Oracle databases and other powerful software enhancements. Our information systems department is continuing with its impressive efforts and is stronger than ever.

Ongoing Research and Development

AGAT Laboratories sets the pace within the industry by continually making advances in the understanding of scientific phenomenon and interrelationships. A key part of the success as a technological service company is the due to the fact that we actively perform our own scientific research and reinvest a large percentage of profit back into this all important area. As scientific understandings are achieved, we examine and develop technological advances in our abilities to obtain and interpret meaningful analytical data. Basic and applied scientific research and experimental development at AGAT is performed at a pace that smaller organizations and multi-business services could not possibly match. Applied research has been performed in areas such as: bioremediation of environmental sites, electrical properties in dynamic reservoir systems, spectral interference in metals analysis, tar sands evaluation, passive air monitoring and many other areas important to our clients. In this way, we have developed analytical abilities that are not available through conventional laboratories.

Specialized Diversity

It continues to be our experience that analytical projects ranging from the routine to the complex not only require, but quite often benefit from, cross-disciplinary attention. By combining the largest number of specialized services available in one company, we have created the true turnkey approach. Input from professionals specializing in differing scientific areas allows us to solve problems completely and provide comprehensive information concerning any given situation. Using AGAT gives you access to complete analytical services for all of your needs. There is no longer cause for dealing with a large number of companies in order to satisfy all of your analytical needs. Experience AGAT and join the growing group of very satisfied clients that know first hand the value of having a technological advantage.