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History of Burgener Research Inc.

Burgener Research Inc. was founded and incorporated in 1995 by John Burgener, but the company’s beginnings came out of Burgener Technical Enterprises / Technical Service Laboratories (BTE), which was started in 1947 by his father John E. Burgener.

BTE was one of the top 3 laboratories in Canada in 1990 when it was sold. There were over 150 employees, and branches in Mississauga, Timmins, Noranda, Saskatoon, Spokane, and Newfoundland. BTE was in the process of starting up a lab in Mexico in 1990, and had jointly ventured in the creation and operations of several other companies: Activation Laboratories, Trulogic (now Questron Canada) and Cambridge Testing. BTE also owned Burtec Inc. of Albany, NY (now in Oakville, Ontario) which made sampling devices for the steel industry.

Get to Know John A. Burgener

Burgener Research, and myself, really have our origins in the mid 1940s during World War II, when my Father, John E. Burgener, was offered the opportunity to work with the Aluminum Company of Canada to start a spectrographic lab. He was sent to Arvida, Quebec, and began working to show that spectrographic analysis were able to provide as good or better results than wet chemistry techniques. The turning point came with a bad batch of Aluminum.

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