MV Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1985 to meet a growing need for the high-purity inorganic materials used in analytical spectroscopy techniques such as inductively coupled plasma emission spectroscopy (ICP) and graphite furnace atomic absorption (GFAA), as well as industrial applications that included the purification of scandium and preparation of rare earth and alkaline earth sulfides for infrared activated phosphors.

The company quickly became a primary wholesale supplier of high-purity inorganic compounds for many well-known laboratory chemical catalogs that serve chemists in research, product development, and various analytical sciences.

The company's core technology is the development and application of synthetic methods for the removal of trace impurities in the part per million range without the use of zone refining, sublimation, or other techniques that typically add extra costs to the manufacturing process. This technology, combined with an expertise in inorganic synthesis, allows cost-effective production of hundreds of compounds with purities ranging from 99.99% up to 99.9999%.

While maintaining its focus on original application areas, MV Laboratories continues to grow as new requirements for high-purity inorganics are found in industries that include optoelectronics, superconductors, fiber optics, fuel cells, and nanotechnology.

In 1999, the company relocated and now occupies a 6000 sq. ft. facility that houses two manufacturing labs, a laboratory for wet chemical analysis, an instrument laboratory, a solution standard manufacturing laboratory, and several stockrooms and administrative offices.

MV Laboratories Management

    Warren Miller, Ph.D.

Dr. Miller founded MV Laboratories in 1985. He earned his BS degree in Chemistry from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, and his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, NY in 1970. After receiving his doctorate, he worked with Dr. L. Vaska at Clarkson University where he prepared novel precious metal compounds for studies in homogeneous catalysis.

Prior to founding MV Laboratories, Dr. Miller put his talents to use at Spex CertiPrep (formerly Spex Industries, Edison, NJ) where he established and managed the Spectrochemicals Group, a successful new division at this firm that also manufactures instrument monochromators and accessories for sample preparation and analysis.

He has been employed as chief chemist, Alfa Analytical Laboratories, Jersey City, NJ, and with Ag-Met, Delano, PA, where he worked in precious metals assaying and refining. His additional areas of expertise in chemistry include the solid-state preparations of high purity materials.

Dr. Miller is a published author of more than twenty scientific papers on the synthesis of precious metal coordination compounds, and rare earth and scandium complexes. He also presented papers on the preparation of high purity materials at various international spectroscopy meetings in Japan, Korea, Germany and Canada.

    Phillip Blacher

Phillip Blacher joined MV Laboratories in 1986. He works as a synthetic inorganic chemist and oversees the analytical quality control laboratory.

Phillip earned a BS degree in Chemistry from East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA, with a curriculum concentration in inorganic and analytical chemistries. His post-graduate education also includes courses in ICP spectroscopy and ICP Mass Spectrometry.

He coauthored a paper on the purification of inorganic materials that was presented
at the 1994 ICP Winter Conference, a biannual symposium sponsored by the Univ. of Mass, Amherst, MA.