Thoughts from Darren Skipp, Commercial Director.
This year Applied Measurements celebrates 35 years as a sensor manufacturer and supplier. It has been a journey of many separate successes that has led us to become one of the leading bespoke industrial force sensor suppliers in the UK. As I look back over the past 35 years of Applied Measurements, I realise just how far we have come in that time.
We have grown from just 3 employees, in 2500 sq ft of offices, when Peter Lewis, Managing Director started the company. Now, we employ 36 people in facilities (offices) of over 7500 sq ft and continue to expand our ever-growing Applied Measurements family.
Our technical expertise has developed with time and in 2018 we became ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Certified by BSI under certificate number FS 677584 for the design, manufacture and distribution of transducers and measuring systems.
As the business grew and we become increasingly dependent on IT systems, we invested in IT security. This subtle change of focus to business sustainability, led to us getting Cyber Essentials Certified in 2023. Indeed, I believe a good business should continually plan ahead and ensure that it can still serve its customers for many years to come.
In 2024, we opened the High Volume Pressure Sensor department so as to meet sustained OEM customer demand. Between then and now, in 2026, we have added dozens of new pressure, load cell, displacement sensors and instrumentation solutions to our online shop.
One of the benefits that I enjoy the most about a steadily growing business is the ability to develop an industry-leading management team. We have now taken on an Engineering Manager and an Operations Manager to help us with our production workload and to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
We are thankful to have been a part of so many revolutionising and exciting projects over the years, such as the Gemini Telescope, which still uses 700+ of our bespoke load cells 25 years on, now with newer, enhanced technologies that were not even in existence when we first designed them.
Plus, I am proud to say that Applied Measurements has been supporting green projects so that future generations may thrive in years to come. Ones I especially enjoyed were Minesto’s award-winning Deep Green, helping to convert tidal and ocean currents into electricity and EPICTidal Team’s tidal turbine testing rig. More recently, we have been able to support DEEP Research Labs Limited and their client’s quest for sustainable seaweed farming.
But none of this could have happened without the fantastic team of past and current Applied Measurements employees, our Applied Measurements family, and more importantly you, our customers and friends. I, and all of us here at Applied Measurements, would like to take this moment to thank every single one of you for your ongoing support. We really couldn’t have done it without you.
We are looking forward to what the future may bring and hope that you will continue to be a part of it.
Thank you from Everyone at Applied Measurements.
