Team Lab builds and supplies specialty products for the people who keep water, roads, and grounds working: wastewater operators, county engineers, and facility crews across the Upper Midwest and beyond.
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Solutions for Wastewater and Road Construction
The problems we are best known for solving: wastewater treatment for municipal operators, and BASE ONE base stabilization for county road programs.
Wastewater Treatment
Bioaugmentation and treatment programs that cut odor and sludge, manage fats, oils, and grease, and keep ponds, plants, lift stations, and collection systems running. Built around the problem you are seeing, whether that is H2S, FOG, or aquatic weeds.
BASE ONE® base stabilizer
A liquid stabilizer applied by a patented method. It mixes into water and incorporates into the base material, building stronger roads from the ground up. Used in stabilized full depth reclamation, new construction and reconstruction, thin surface overlay, and gravel roads. Counties use it to get more road out of the same budget.
Products, organized by the work you do
Eight programs covering the recurring problems in municipal and industrial maintenance. Each one filters down to the exact product for your application.
Wastewater Treatment
Biological and chemical programs for lagoons, lift stations, and treatment facilities.
Grounds Maintenance
Fertilizers, herbicides, seed, and athletic field paint to build and hold ideal turf conditions.
Street & Parking Lot
Crack sealer, pothole patch, and traffic paint that extend the life of paved surfaces.
Paint
Traffic, survey, and athletic paint, cross-listed with the grounds and street programs.
Mosquito Control
Products to manage mosquito populations across public and facility grounds.
Winter Products
Ice melt and cold-weather chemicals for safety and wintertime vehicle performance.
Cleaners & Degreasers
Industrial-duty cleaners and degreasers for buildings, shops, and equipment.
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Built for the people who keep things running
Team Lab supplies the crews and buyers responsible for water, roads, grounds, and facilities, not retail shelves. If you write the spec or run the equipment, you are who we build for.
Serving the Upper Midwest with reps in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
Counties, DOT & public works
Road programs, base stabilization, dust control, and pavement maintenance backed by spec documentation.
Wastewater operators
Bioaugmentation and treatment programs for ponds, plants, lift stations, and collection systems.
Schools, parks & facilities
Turf and grounds care, athletic field paint, cleaners, and seasonal products for the grounds crew.
Industrial & shops
Degreasers, aerosols, and maintenance chemistry for buildings, fleets, and equipment.
Sonar sludge surveys for ponds and lagoons
We map the sludge blanket across your stabilization pond with a GPS sonar boat, instead of guessing with a sludge judge. You get a full contour map and a volume number, so you can see how much sludge you have, where it sits, and whether your treatment program is holding it down.
It is also how we monitor whether a bioaugmentation program is working: measure, treat, then measure again.
We solve the problem
Start with the problem in front of you: a pond filling with sludge, a gravel road breaking up, odor off a lift station, a shop floor that will not come clean. We work back from there to the product.
We treat the cause
In wastewater, that means lowering the organic load that generates hydrogen sulfide and volatile fatty acids, rather than masking odor after it forms. The fix holds because the chemistry addresses the source.
Products that last
Built to be used
Municipal wastewater operators, county and city public works, parks and grounds crews, and facility managers all work out of the same catalog. Each line is formulated for the crews who apply it.
Decades of Innovation, Proven Solutions.
1977
In business since 1977
A recognized leader in Midwest municipal chemical sales, manufacturing since 1977.
140+
Products in the catalog
Proven formulations across eight product lines, from wastewater to winter.
Patented
BASE ONE® application method
Our base stabilizer, applied by a patented method. Counties trust it for stronger roads at lower cost.
In·house
Spec & SDS support
Application rates, technical data, and SDS from people who know the field.
What customers see
10 in.
50 miles
0.16–0.22
Road & Bridges Magazine
According to Spies, the end results were greatly enhanced by the addition of the Base One® for a variety of reasons. The county saved approximately $140,000 by adding the aggregate base stabilizer and being able to eliminate 2 in. of MN Class 5 due to the strength gained by its addition.
Vern Kemper • County Gravel Road Project
"We use Base One® Material Stabilizer in all of our new gravel roads we're doing. We put it in and we find out we extend the life of the gravel out by at least 5-7 years longer than normal. It's been a really great product for us and we like the way it goes down."
A specialty chemical company that grew up next to its customers
Team Lab started in 1977 in Bismarck, North Dakota, founded by Gary and Dianne Sullivan on a simple principle: work closely with customers to develop solutions. That is where the name came from.
In 2003 Terry and Michelle Maier, longtime members of the company, bought it and moved operations to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. The principle did not change. Team Lab’s strength has always been its people and the customers who rely on them.