Rocky Mountain Reagents, Inc., formerly S & K Reagents, has been in business in the Denver area for over 50 years. S & K Reagents was founded in 1951 by Ewald Schug and George Kaufman. The partnership was short lived and Mr. Schug bought out Mr. Kaufman’s interest in the company. Ewald Schug was the first (and only) Medical Technologist to graduate in 1941 from the new Medical Technologist Program offered by Presbyterian Medical Center. He developed the company to meet the needs of Hospitals, Clinics and Physician laboratories in the Denver area. The products manufactured by S & K Reagents included: culture media, biological stains and chemistry solutions for clinical laboratories. Ewald hand delivered the products that he made in his basement daily. In the mid 1960's, the business was moved to a 585 square foot space in the Historic Washington Park area of Denver.