About Us
Our Team at AST
Applied Scientific Technologies (AST) is an emerging company founded by two directors, Garry Lofthouse and Lee Raywood in 2017 Stokesley, North Yorkshire. They are innovative specialists in robotics, automated control systems and hardware integration into life and physical sciences, industrial, laboratory and medical applications.
AST was created to be aimed at the laboratory and digitalisation markets to help support their automation and digitalisation journey. Our team have decades of knowledge in the field of automation and control experience.
We work collaboratively and closely with our clients to develop proof of concepts to help you maximise your return on investment (ROI) and help your business grow. Our independence allows us to deliver unique automation solutions quickly and accurately. We ensure we have a deep understanding of our clients challenges and ambitions and listen to their needs. We have a dynamic, strong engineering team with many years combined experience.
Our main markets include, Chemical R&D and Formulation Laboratories, Cosmetics and Consumer Grooming products, University Research, Life Sciences and Medical, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Food and Beverage and Petrochemicals.
Specialising in Laboratory 4.0, Digital Twins, IR4, Collaborative and Autonomous Robots, System Integration, Internet of Things (IoT), system integration, SILA and Artificial Intelligence. AI use the emerging technologies of IR4 and apply them to a business once a full and thorough understanding of our clients challenges is understood. These could be things such as Sustainability, Energy Usage, Economy, Issues with Inspiring Solutions and many more. To solve these issues, we develop new future proof products, software and apps.
Mission, Vision and Values
Our Mission - Pushing the boundaries of science and technology with innovative and inspiring solutions.
Our Vision - Nurturing the company and becoming a Global Centre of Excellence in the delivery of complex scientific and technical systems. Putting our clients first to deliver solutions that transform the way our customers gather, manage and control data.
Our Values (Cultures) - A great place to work with honesty and integrity, where people are inspired to be, and are rewarded for being, the best they can be.
We are a no nonsense, down-to-earth, fun, technology-driven, innovative life sciences solution company for laboratory digitalisation and robotics offering services at the forefront of lab technology and at the coal-face of the lab, the bench.