Harper International Corporation
Derek Pulver is an experienced engineering professional currently serving as Electrical Engineering Manager at Harper International Corporation since December 2018. Prior to this role, Derek worked at General Motors from October 2003 to December 2018 as a Senior Controls Engineer, focusing on electrical controls and machine programming within an engine manufacturing facility, along with assembly line automation design and support. Derek holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Managing Information Systems, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, both earned from the University at Buffalo.
Harper International Corporation
Harper International is a global leader in complete thermal processing solutions and technical services for the production of advanced materials, including Furnaces, Kilns, Calciners, and Ovens. Harper designs systems from research scale to full production line operations, with a focus on processing materials at high temperatures from 500 to 3000°C and in non-ambient atmospheres. Our expertise is in the scale up and production of advanced materials such as carbon fiber, ceramic and metal powders, nano materials, nuclear materials, and carbon materials. Our toolbox of systems includes Slot, Rotary, Pusher Tunnel, Belt Conveyor, Vertical Conveyor, Box, Elevator, and Ultra-High Temperature (UHT) furnaces, and well as Oxidation Ovens for carbon fiber. Our process expertise is unparalleled, supported by our robust engineering focus and PhD staff, and includes calcination, graphitization, carburization, controlled oxidation, oxide reduction, purification, pyrolysis, drying, reduction, solid-solid reaction, gas-solid reaction, metalizing, debinding, waste remediation and more. Harper also offers services to support our customers from beginning to end, with our Ignite™ and Pulse™ programs. Through Ignite™, Harper offers customers our depth and breadth of experience in thermal processing to analyze, optimize and scale up their material production. This extends to access to a number of research and piloting facilities with multiple furnaces and kilns to help develop the most efficient and effective regime to meet their goal, as well as tolling services as an intermediary step during process development. With Pulse™, we are the customers' one-call for technical support, domestic and overseas field service, proactive preventative maintenance programs, replacement parts, and engineered solutions for a broad spectrum of your service and maintenance requirements for Harper furnaces. For a list of current career opportunities: www.careersatharper.com