Dorna and Pace Analytical Are Building the Future of Environmental Lab Automation Together
We're proud to announce a formal collaboration with Pace Analytical — one of North America's largest and most respected environmental and analytical testing laboratories.
This isn't a pilot program or a proof of concept. Pace is already running automation in their labs, supporting real workflows, every day. Together, we are co-developing high-mix benchtop automation solutions for sample prep and testing workflows across their operations — from sample receipt all the way through to final data reporting.
The partnership brings together Pace's deep domain expertise in analytical testing with Dorna's modular lab automation platform. The result is automation built specifically for the complexity and variability of real lab conditions — not idealized lab conditions — with data connectivity that supports timely, confident decisions at every step.
Andrea F. Gullà, Ph.D., Director of R&D at Pace Analytical, put it well:
The goal isn't to replace scientific expertise — it's to enhance it. By reducing repetitive, manual tasks, Pace's scientists can focus where their knowledge matters most.
That's exactly why we built Dorna.
Environmental and analytical testing labs face some of the highest sample volumes and workflow variability in the industry. The work demands precision, consistency, and throughput that manual processes simply can't sustain at scale. We've spent years building a platform specifically capable of handling that complexity — modular enough to adapt to mixed sample formats, fast enough to deploy without months of custom engineering, and reliable enough to run in a production environment every single day.
We're proud to be doing this work alongside a team as rigorous and mission-driven as Pace. We're just getting started.