Montrose Environmental buys Frontier Analytical Laboratories, terms undisclosed

Montrose Environmental announced the acquisition of Frontier Analytical Laboratories, an environmental laboratory specializing in high-resolution gas chromatography mass spectrometry analysis of Dioxins/Furans, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and other Persistent Organic Pollutants, or POPs. Frontier’s leadership, including VPs Bradley Silverbush and Tom Crabtree, will join Montrose. The business will be integrated into the company’s measurement and analysis Segment and operate as part of Enthalpy Analytical, a subsidiary of Montrose. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Frontier, formed in 2001, is comprised of a group of chemists/analysts who offer more than 80 years of combined experience in providing mass spectrometry identification and quantification of trace level organic pollutants from a wide array of matrices. Based in El Dorado Hills, California, the Frontier team will now begin working out of Montrose’s neighboring Enthalpy laboratory.