The original company, Stanton Techniques, Inc. (STI) was founded in 1987 for the purpose of developing improved padlocks and padlock related security hardware. In 1993 the name was changed to Stanton Concepts, Inc. (SCI), and in 2005 to Stanton Concepts, LLC. SCI currently has a large portfolio of intellectual property.
 

Management Team:

The principle, Robert W. Loughlin, a graduate mechanical engineer served four years in the U.S. Army, three as a Liaison officer on NIKE program stationed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Following military service he spent nine years with the Hewlett Packard Company in various service, manufacturing and engineering capacities. In 1975 he, and partners acquired the Waterbury Lock and Specialty Company. At Waterbury he was responsible for engineering, product development, and manufacturing. Since 1980 he has been involved with The American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM) chairing the task groups responsible for the new standards for Hasps and Attachments (F 2155) and Privacy Padlocks (F 2348). Specific product involvement has included one-time use tamper indicative devices (TID) seals such as PrivaSeal, padlocks, padlock attachments, specialty security devices such as Tufloc™, and weapons securing hardware for the Department of Defense, Nine issued patents have resulted from this work.

John P. Loughlin joined Stanton Concepts in 2002 and is responsible for general management and concept development. From 2000 to 2002 John had been at Jedai Broadband where he was a founding member and led the Physical Design Group. From 1992 to 2000 John served in various management positions with Johanson Manufacturing Corporation, a leader in the design and manufacture of high precision electronic and fiber optic components. In addition, John served as the Managing Director of Johanson's Swiss subsidiary. Prior to this time, he served in engineering management positions at E-Systems, a provider of sophisticated communications systems for the US government, LICOM Inc., a manufacturer of fiber optic transmission equipment, and General Optronics Corp., a manufacturer of laser diodes and fiber optic communication systems. John holds several patents relating to fiber optic devices.

Stanton Concepts is an “idea” company, we have a large and growing concept portfolio, we are in business to license our technology and solutions with leaders in the security industry.