Pace Analytical Services, LLC
Minneapolis (corporate); operating HQ in Roseville, Minnesota, United States
Pace runs a national network of environmental laboratories and service centers that run EPA-method chemistry, microbiology and trace-metals analysis on water, wastewater, air, soil, sediment and hazardous waste for regulatory compliance, plus separate life-sciences/pharma testing lines. It positions itself as the largest privately/US-owned analytical testing organization in the country, built through decades of regional lab acquisitions rather than a single flagship site.
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis (corporate); operating HQ in Roseville, Minnesota, United States
- Founded
- 1978
- Website
- www.pacelabs.com
Notable facts
- Founded in 1978 in Minneapolis by Steve Vanderboom and Bill O'Connor; Vanderboom remained CEO/President through the company's 40th anniversary in 2018.
- As of its 40-year retrospective, the network comprised 33 regional environmental labs, 1 national environmental lab, 4 life-sciences labs, 2 LabOps sites and 48 service centers across the US and Puerto Rico, with over 2,500 employees.
- Leonard Green & Partners acquired a majority stake from prior owner Aurora Capital Partners in 2022, per the companies' joint announcement.
Testing categories
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified againstsource 1 · source 2 · source 3. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology.
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