Jesteśmy na rynku od 2010 roku

We started in 2010. Our story is very simple: three chemistry and pharmacy graduates who were friends decided to start their own laboratory. At that time we were still employees of the Medical University of Gdańsk, so we had experience of how scientific institutions functioned, but we lacked a typical business approach and wanted to develop our own research projects that would respond to specific market needs. So we operate like a business, but based on a scientific methodology. It is our mission to successively manage Spark-Lab as a platform for cooperation between science and business.

 

It is not easy, there is a lack of such management models in our industry sector, but over time we have developed our own to fill this missing gap in the market and we are getting better at it. Our greatest value is the hundreds of completed projects for very demanding customers from various industries, which we approach completely individually and each such order is another new pattern, analysis and method that we develop especially for the needs of this project.

 

In the last 2 years only, we have developed over 200 completely proprietary analysis methods and we know that there will be more and more. The team that we have built and that has been with us for years consists of highly and narrowly specialised analysts from various areas, thanks to which the team is interdisciplinary and easily completes subsequent project challenges.

 

To summarise: we solve real problems for the manufacturing sector in the pharmaceutical, chemical and food industries, as well as in cosmetics.

About us

We work with leaders

Since 2013 at Spark - Lab we have developed, maintained and continuously successfully improved a Quality Management System in accordance with the ISO 9001:2008 standard. In subsequent years, we rebuilt the system, resulting in the company's new two administrative departments: research and development and routine analysis. By separating these structures, we were able to implement an integrated system in the routine analysis department, which has since been operating in accordance with the two standards that are ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17025:2018-02.

Our management

Łukasz Guzik, DPharm

Łukasz Guzik, DPharm

Chief Business Development Officer

Doctor of Pharmacy from the Medical University of Gdańsk (GUMed), who fulfilled his professional dream by opening his laboratory together with his friends (a chemist and another pharmacist) with the firm intention of creating a thriving research and development department within it. Today, looking back from the perspective of 11 years, he is satisfied with the research projects completed, which have allowed SL to develop a reputation in the market and bring so many challenges that a job at any university could not offer. He recalls the beginnings as difficult, almost a classic self-made-man's path to market success, but emphasises that this effort was shared jointly and evenly by the entire current management team; equal dedication and consistency on the way to the goal, coloured with an offbeat sense of humour, great curiosity and an open mind.

The biggest challenge was to simultaneously learn all the principles of running a business from scratch, ranging from analytics to trading and all the procedures necessary to improve the quality of the labo's work. He finds the crowning achievement of his more than decade-long efforts not in specific pharmacy projects, but in the co-building of the entire organisation as an interesting entity made up of personalities, aptitudes, joint efforts and the comfort of working in a friendly atmosphere.

He considers the current market situation in the R&D sector to be fair and favourable, as success is primarily determined by implementation results and measurable outcomes, unlike in routine analysis where price is of the essence. Among the projects, he likes his speciality the most: R&D for pharma, which is always an intellectual challenge. In the dreams, SL is in a leadership position in another industry, precisely in R&D for pharma industry, second to e- liquids, now graciously reigning almost all over Europe!

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Maciej Barc, Msc Eng

Maciej Barc, Msc Eng

Chief Technology Officer

A chemist from the Gdańsk University of Technology, one of the tenacious co-founders of Spark-Lab and at the same time one of the most cheerful members of the crew on the SL board, always eager for an accurate and quick punchline. He recalls the beginnings of SL as a period of sacrifice both professionally and personally, but at the same time full of satisfaction. As he says: if you like what you do, you're not really working. He remembers that the set-up and construction work that had to be done in the laboratory on his own was more painful than the start-up itself. One of the many sparklab fans of project diversity, which gives constant impetus to doing more and more new challenges, such as projects for the European Space Agency or isolating and investigating the chemical identity of unknown substances. What he probably likes most about SL is that we have access to virtually all the major analytical techniques. He often likes to play with 'heavier' equipment such as supercritical extractor and preparative flash chromatography. He assesses our industry as not easy, due to the dominance of large operators with high demands. They cannot be let down even in the most minor aspect of the project due to the fact that these are long-term relationships. Maciek's motto is: if something can be done in our industry, we will do it. In his dreams, he sees an even stronger position for SL as rescuing companies from severe, at first sight, insurmountable problems. He appreciates when customers don't sweep difficult issues under the carpet, but call us. And we pick up the gauntlet - every time!

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Alicja Kucharska-Guzik, MPharm

Alicja Kucharska-Guzik, MPharm

Chief Financial Officer

A pharmacist after the Gdańsk University of Technology who co-founded SL and took on many new roles at once: as the first actual New Business Director, exploring new areas of the industry and growth opportunities, as an analyst on her own, as a co-builder of the team from scratch and finally as Łukasz's future wife. This multitude of roles, despite the stubbornly short day, did not overwhelm her at the expense of sleepless nights, and despite her relative unconsciousness, she not only succeeded in achieving her jointly agreed objectives, but also gradually helped the company to move to a higher level of development as an organisation in every aspect. One of the landmark projects for SL was the challenge to test 59 compounds in 120 wines to develop the Delipair application. The second clear breakthrough, as Alicja recalls, was a customer, almost left alone in the face of the market situation at the time, who gave SL the impetus to design and develop its own Smoky Lab apparatus, thus meeting the needs of one determined customer and filling a gap in the market that determined SL's future position as a leader in e-liquid testing. Alicja, just like Łukasz, is very encouraged by the current level of development of SL as a tight-knit team, with a willingness to work and a constant sense of humour, as well as a sense of security that this is a team to whom you can delegate some of the important activities and be confident of a good outcome from this trust. In addition to many certificates, one of our distinguishing principles apart from many certificates, she finds the principle of limited confidence in ourselves - each sample is analysed as many times as possible to rule out any error. She values her independence and being on her own immensely. She sees SL with a leadership position in the second sector after e-liquids, i.e. R&D for pharma, in her next meticulously set goals. Now, feeling well looked after by independent analysts, she boldly sets her sights on self-development: she dreams of a doctoral thesis and, of course, has all possible research goals in her field clarified. We're keeping our fingers crossed and rooting for the next future doc in our team!

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Our team