About Assay One and Ed Brennan
Assay One is an independent Fire Assaying company in East Providence, Rhode Island which opened its doors in 1998, with the aim to provide quick, accurate, competitively priced and unbiased analysis of Gold and Silver products and materials to the local and national Jewelry and Metals Industry.
Ed Brennan
Ed Brennan, owner and lab manager of Assay One, began his fire assay training at the Vennerbeck & Clase Co. in Lincoln, RI in 1977, where he had been working in the alloy room mixing karat melts. He was their assay lab manager for the next four years until 1981, when he left to pursue two venues: evenings he was metallurgical lab manager at the prestigious Technical Materials Inc., also in Lincoln, RI, and during the day Brennan joined New Metal Industries in Manville, RI as their fire assayer. Here he began a career-long association with Howard Schachter.
In 1984, Schachter's initial company New Metals grew into Enviromet Corp, relocating to East Providence, RI, so Ed left TMI and for the next 15 years worked full-time as both fire assayer and manager of Enviromet's wastewater remediation laboratory. This was one of the leading companies for industrial wastewater cleanup and treatment in the Northeast region, as well as foremost in consulting and serving the jewelry and metals industry.
Enviromet eventually grew and broadened its range, evolving into Aquatronics Industries. In July of 1998, while still maintaining strong ties to Mr. Schachter and the lab, Ed started his independent company of Assay One.
Besides being one of a handful of laboratories in New England - if not the only one - solely dedicated to Fire Assaying, the formation of Assay One gave Ed the visibility and focus to pursue his lifelong passion of working with gold. And after 10 strong years as of this writing in 2008, Assay One continues to thrive, due to its ongoing dedication to preserve and further the long and proud line of the ancient craft of Fire Assaying.
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Specializing in the fire assay of gold & silver
Ed Brennan, Lab Manager
105 Dexter Road
PO Box 14040
East Providence, RI, 02914
Phone/Fax 401-434-3337
Email at: assayone@aol.com
Assay One is a fire assaying lab that specializes in:
fire
assaying
material
analysis
quality
control testing of metals
analysis
of gold samples
analysis
of silver samples
sterling
silver analysis
ion
exchange resin analysis
monitoring
of plating solution
Umpire analysis