Harper International Corporation
Kevin Conroy has a solid work experience in the engineering field. Kevin started their career as a Design Engineer at Cooper Industries in 1983 and worked there until 1993. Kevin then moved to Cameron, a Schlumberger company, where they served as an Engineering Supervisor from 1993 to 2006. Following that, they joined Ingersoll Rand as an Engineering Manager, overseeing a staff of 75 employees and managing a budget of $4.5 million. Kevin worked at Ingersoll Rand for ten years before joining Harper International Corporation in 2016 as the Director of Engineering, leading a team of 28 engineers and designers. Under their guidance, the company's revenue grew from $30 million to $70 million.
Kevin Conroy obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering 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