Sherry Laboratories provides independent and uniquely accredited materials, environmental, food and microbiological, and petrochemical testing services, engineering expertise, technical services and products of the highest quality in a cost-effective and timely manner for the success of our clients.

History

Sherry Laboratories was founded by John M. Sherry, a chemist and metallurgist, in 1947. Providing quality testing services to firms in East Central Indiana quickly earned the company a reputation for excellence it maintains to this day.

Originally acquired by Ontario Corporation in 1969, before being purchased by Sherry Holdings LLC in 2006, Sherry’s eight testing facilities support clients in the aerospace, automotive, defense, food processing, gas and oil production, manufacturing, medical, nuclear, pressure vessel, and remediation industries. Businesses throughout the United States and the world utilize Sherry to certify products, conduct failure analysis, offer solutions to technical problems, provide quality control, and serve as expert witnesses in litigation support.

In addition to its testing prowess, SL manufactures top-of-the-line analytical gas reference standards traceable to the National Institute of Standards Technology for the calibration of gas chromatographs.

The largest of Sherry’s facilities is located in Daleville, Ind. The spacious 53,725-square-foot complex has housed SL’s administrative offices since late 2004. The microbiology and environmental labs and members of the Sherry Engineering Group moved into the structure in September of 2005. The metallurgical lab completed its move in late December of 2005.

The Daleville complex is not the most recent addition to Sherry’s network, however. In 2008, the company acquired EIS Analytical Services in South Bend, Ind. This marked the third environmental addition in Indiana in three years as the company had acquired a microbiological/environmental testing lab in Warsaw in 2005, before acquiring Edglo Labs in Fort Wayne in November of 2007. The Edglo purchase allowed Sherry to merge its existing facility in Fort Wayne, acquired in 1992, into Edglo’s 15,000-square-foot facility. Including its environmental facility in Columbus, purchased in 1995, Sherry has five facilities in the state of Indiana.

A similar plan of strategic acquisitions in Oklahoma resulted in the company’s first expansion outside the Hoosier borders. The outcome resulted in Sherry increasing its nonmetallic testing capabilities and allowed the company to enter the flammability testing market.

The growth within the Sooner state culminated when Sherry welcomed Midstates Analytical Laboratories into its family in 1999. The nonmetallic and flammability testing operation has been consolidated into this facility. The Broken Arrow facility is also home to members of Sherry’s Engineering Group, engineers who specialize in failure analysis, reverse engineering and special testing projects.

With an ever conscious eye toward expanding its customer base and providing existing clients the most comprehensive array of testing to be found under one banner, Sherry’s borders advanced to the Southeast in 1991 with the purchase of James Laboratories in Lafayette, La. The facility provides environmental testing to a variety of industries including oil, manufacturing, and municipal wastewater treatment plants. Bioassay testing capabilities were added in 1998.

The growth continued in 1998 with the purchase in Scott. La., of a facility which specializes in the blending of certified gas references standards and hydrocarbon testing services.

Commitment to Quality

Sherry Laboratories has established a commitment to quality that is second to none. Accrediting bodies like Nadcap, A2LA and NELAP have given us their stamp of approval, and our ever-growing list of customer approvals looks like a Who’s Who of Manufacturers. Bell Helicopter, Boeing, Bombardier, Cessna, Chromalloy, Eaton Corporation, Federal Mogul, GE Aviation, Honeywell, Ingersoll-Rand, Ladish, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, Sikorsky, Snecma, and Zimmer are just a few of the companies we gratefully serve as an Approved Vendor.