Start International

Our Mission

START’s® mission is to continuously provide the highest quality product, build and maintain relationships with our customers, and constantly improve the customer service experience.

Our Innovations

START’s best product innovations come from simple observations combined with a keen understanding of our customers’ needs. Most companies design products specifically to increase sales volume. START’s main goal is not to create a bestseller, but to enhance customers’ operations. To attain that goal, our product design engineers develop value-added products. Our approach begins with our unequaled information gathering techniques. With this unique approach to product development, we are able to provide the highest quality and most effective products for our customers.

START International has been solving customers’ application needs since 1981. We like to be known as an “application-oriented” company. With our tape and label dispensers, we are helping production lines around the world increase operator productivity. With our optical inspection line, we bring the largest selection and highest quality loupes, magnifiers, and hand-held microscopes in the world to you in one place. We look forward to earning your business.

Our Principles

Commitment to Value

Our success rests in our ability to consistently deliver the highest quality product to the customer. We strive to function as a highly valued partner to our customers.

Commitment to Service

We are in business to serve our customers. We take accountability and pro-actively respond to our customer's needs.

Commitment to Our People

Our people are our most important asset. We strive to create the most rewarding (and the most fun!) place to work and to consistently value and reward commitment and superior performance.

Commitment to Integrity

We conduct business in a manner consistent with the highest ethical standards. We insist on treating our customers, vendors, partners, and each other with honesty and dignity.

Commitment to Innovation

We constantly explore new and creative approaches for accomplishing objectives. We seek to relentlessly learn and inspire perpetual innovation.

Commitment to Embracing Challenge

We recognize that in our industry, change is constant and obstacles are inevitable. We seek to anticipate and thrive on challenges. We strive to think and act with agility and tenacity.

Commitment to Teamwork

We create teams of passionate and bright people from different disciplines and with various backgrounds and ideas. We honor the value of collaboration and cooperation among individuals.