The Victoria laboratory, in British Columbia, opened in 1981 to service coal mining companies in the Rocky Mountains of western Canada. Our two U.S.-based laboratories, located at Gary, Indiana, and Catlettsburg, Kentucky, began operations in February 1998, and May 2006. Our newest laboratory that is located at the seaside port-town of Mackay, in tropical Central Queensland, Australia, opened January 2008.

Through these diverse operating sites, we provide automated petrographic technology to the worlds most advanced coke oven batteries - Sun Coke's Haverhill North Coke Plant, and Indiana Harbor Coke Company, at East Chicago, Indiana. The Gary laboratory is located within five miles of Arcelor Mittal's Indiana Harbor plant and US Steel's Gary plant, on the south shore of Lake Michigan. The Catlettsburg laboratory is located at Arch Coal Terminal, on the left bank of the Big Sandy, a major tributary of the Ohio River at Ashland, Kentucky. There, a major client is Standard Laboratories. The Mackay laboratory is located close to the worlds largest coking coal terminals - Hay Point and Dalrymple Bay, on the edge of the Bowen Basin, Australia's principal coking coal resource.

Our laboratories use state-of-the-art sample preparation equipment, including multiple Buehler Simplimet automatic pelletizers with duplex molds, for consistent ISO sample preparation, and automated Buehler Ecomet/Automet polishing equipment for rapid high-quality polished coal surfaces. Our laboratories are populated with Leitz Orthoplan MPV-2, MPV-Compact or MPV-SP microscope-photometers that are used for manual petrographic analyses - Maceral analysis and Vitrinite Reflectance measurements, to ASTM or ISO Standards. Each laboratory has Zeiss Universal microscopes with high-resolution CCD image sensors that are used for the daily automated analysis of coking coals and blends, and for Reflectance Profiling - Fingerprinting your coals. All laboratories participate in the US-based CPA quarterly Round-Robin analyses, to assure quality consistency among our operations. All of our Petrographers possess ICCP Accreditation.

Computing facilities in the laboratories are linked by Virtual Private Network, and also provide clients with on-line results, run-charts of sample statistics, and graphical displays of sample qualities.

Our professional staff includes, Dr. Rachel Walker, the TSOP Editor, and Manager of the Gary laboratory; Diana Riggs, Manager of the Catlettsburg laboratory; Sandra Dixon, Manager of the Mackay laboratory.

Jen Pearson is the Honorary Treasurer of ICCP and Vice President of Finances. Rich Pearson is Vice President of Operations, manages all vital communications servers and all other IT services, as well as Operational Strategies. Dave Pearson crushes coal and makes pellets.