Parr Instrument Company
Jeff Keester is an experienced engineering professional with a diverse background in management and product development. Currently serving as Engineering Manager at Parr Instrument Company since June 2015, Jeff previously held the position of Director of Engineering at Nichols Aluminum, where responsibilities included global direction of engineering for four aluminum-producing plants focused on capital improvements. Prior experience includes serving as Technical Manager at HARDI, overseeing North American product development, and managing technical services for a global agriculture sprayer manufacturer. Jeff also held an EMO role at IPSCO Steel in 1995-1996. Educational qualifications include a Master of Business Administration from St. Ambrose University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa.
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Parr Instrument Company
For over 120 years, Parr Instrument Company has been designing, manufacturing, and selling high quality laboratory instruments and apparatus for conducting chemical reactions and tests under heat and pressure and for testing fuels. Parr’s extensive product line includes stirred reactors, pressure vessels, and high pressure tubular reactors for the study of catalytic and non-catalytic reactions in batch, continuous-flow, and multiple/parallel operation for the chemical, polymer, biofuels, hydrometallurgical, pharmaceutical, petroleum, and petrochemical industries. Custom designed complex reactor systems, built to the customer's specifications and requirements are also provided. Parr’s oxygen combustion calorimeters are used for the determination of the heat of combustion in solid, liquid, and refuse-derived fuels for the energy, educational, coal, and fuel testing industries. Parr also offers sample preparation vessels for extraction, digestion, and hydrothermal synthesis, as well as a line of vessels for cell disruption by nitrogen decompression.