McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. Email Format
Industrial Machinery ManufacturingMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. is a small to mid-sized oceanographic instrument manufacturer based in East Falmouth, Massachusetts. The company designs and builds time-series and in situ samplers and profiling platforms used by researchers worldwide to collect water and particle data, as well as flotation products. Its offerings include programmable water samplers for collecting filtered phytoplankton samples, high-volume pumping systems for particulate material, sediment traps, and profiling vehicles that traverse fixed mooring wires to monitor conditions from the deep ocean to the surface. In addition to field instruments, the firm develops in situ laboratory platforms for advanced phytoplankton imaging and DNA analysis. Operating within the industrial machinery manufacturing sector, it focuses on specialized equipment for scientific oceanography and environmental monitoring. A recent development in April 2025 involved the launch of a new environmental DNA collection instrument.