ASTORIA-PACIFIC, INC.
CLACKAMAS, OR

Mission Statement and History (Spotcheck) Mission Statement and History Astoria-Pacific started small, with a few product offerings primarily within the horticultural , for woody plant propagation. The company later expanded into the automated chemistry and analyzer business–essentially, buying back the manufacturing rights of the RFA 300, making substantial overhauls to the system, and re-branding it as the Astoria Analyzer. Today API has grown significantly to offer testing and analysis in a variety of markets; and Dip’N Grow has become a successful independent business on its own. Pavitt’s career and experiences stemmed from Technicon. He worked as a service engineer on autoanalyzers and Sequential Multiple Analyzer (SMA) units. Eventually he left and started his own consumable and reagent business to support these and other Technicon equipment –ALPKEM 300 (Rapid Flow Analyzer), which was later complemented by the cost-effective RFA II; both of these analyzers helped revolutionize the industry. Pavitt and his partner sold ALPKEM in 1989 to a Swedish conglomerate. He soon left and started to formulate his plans for the next company – Astoria-Pacific.