Analytical Sales & Service, Inc.

Analytical Sales & Service, Inc. (ASAS) distributes instrumentation, electrical and analytical components used for containment, protection, metering and monitoring of fluids and gases. The company opened in 1974 supplying local chemical and petrochemical businesses, and has since expanded to cover the Gulf Coast from Corpus Christi, Texas to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Stated customers are petrochemical and chemical operations along with collaborating laboratories.

Alongside distribution, the company handles repair, tube bending, vendor managed inventory and tool rental. It states that it stocks the most commonly used products so that quick-turn requests for temperature, pressure, level, flow and electrical components can be filled from inventory.

Product categories

• Assemblies and sampling: cylinder, bottle, hose, closed vent, open vent, inline and piston sampling systems and handling systems, including DOPAK and Texas Sampling options
• Fittings: compression, tube, pipe, bore-through, cone and thread, flange adapters, caps, plugs, port connections and reducing bushings, with medium pressure rated to 20,000 PSI and high pressure rated to 60,000 PSI
• Valves: tubing, pipe, check, ball, needle, diaphragm, bellows, proportional relief, double block and bleed, cryogenic, high temperature and severe service, plus instrument manifolds and excess flow limiting valves
• Regulators: pressure reducing, back pressure, vaporizing, tank blanketing, relief valves and gas cylinder change over stations
• Hoses and tubing: hose sizes from 1/8 inch to 20 inch, stainless steel braided hose, and tubing in rubber, metal, PTFE core, nylon and polyethylene
• Gauges and meters: pressure and temperature gauges in liquid filled, diaphragm sealed, stainless and thermoplastic styles, plus flowmeters, rotameters, variable area flow meters and pressure and temperature switches
• Sensors: thermocouples, RTDs, orifice plates and differential pressure sensors
• Filters, seals and consumables: in-line, gas, liquid, coalescing, particulate and cartridge filters, strainers, gaskets, thread sealants, PTFE tapes and lubricants
• Specialized items: thermowells, orifice unions, ejectors, eductors, analyzer controls, annunciators, dryers and tubing support systems

Repair and field services

Service work covers the same instrumentation, electrical and analytical equipment the company distributes:

• Emergency breakdown call-outs on a 24/7 basis
• Routine tool repair and maintenance
• Tube bending and coiling to specified dimensions, in any material
• Checks that monitoring and measurement equipment is operating and indicating properly
• Turnaround and project support spanning planning, engineered solutions and MRO

Vendor managed spares

The company runs a vendor managed spares program in two forms. One holds electrical and instrumentation parts onsite in the customer's own shop, and the other sets the spared inventory aside offsite at the ASAS location.

Tool rental

Rental tooling covers tabletop, electric and hydraulic tubing benders, along with hydraulic pre-swaging tools for seating nut and ferrule sets on tubing, fittings and valves of 1/2 inch and larger.