Category: News

Last week Parr hosted a dealer training at our headquarters in Moline, Illinois. In attendance were Md. Farid Ali (David) with Maks Trading Limited in Bangladesh, Ing. Neurin Rodriguez Romero with BioAnalytical in the Dominican Republic, Mr. Jacek Thomann, and Mr. Rafal Kuran both with Donserv in Poland.

Thank you David, Neurin, Jacek, and Rafal for making the trip to the United States to train with us and for your dedication to help support our mutual customers!

Are you interested in training? We provide dealer and customer training free of charge at our facility in Moline. Contact us for more information.

Other opportunities to meet with Parr’s Technical and Sales personnel are available by visiting us at our Trade Shows. We’d love to meet with you!

The United Way of the Quad Cities announced that it exceeded its annual workplace fundraising campaign goal for 2015. United Way president Scott Crane along with campaign co-chairs Carrie O’Neill and Jim Nelson announced that the organization surpassed their goal of $8,750 million by raising $9,045 million during the 2015 campaign.

Parr Instrument Company was one of nine companies chosen as a Pacesetter company to jump start the 2015 United Way campaign. Parr helped provide leadership and excitement for the rest of the community to increase their giving. Parr employees participated in a Day of Caring where employees had a chance to give back to the community where they live and work by volunteering in support of United Way programs.

Jim Nelson said, “I am blown away by the generosity of Parr employees and of the many others in the Quad City community who continually donate to United Way.”

An early model Parr Calorimeter is now on display in the lobby of the Rogers Adams Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The calorimeter dates back to approximately the 1920’s and is featured below a plaque honoring Parr Instrument Company’s founder, Professor Samuel W. Parr who taught at the University of Illinois for many years. The calorimeter display is featured in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department’s newsletter Mass Transfer.

We are pleased to announce that Parr Instrument Company’s website is now available in Spanish!

The Spanish version of our site is accessible at www.parrinst.com/es or by clicking on the Español link located in the language selector on the top of each page. Clicking on the English link takes visitors back to the English site.

We would like to extend a special thank you to our exclusive dealer in Mexico Equipar and Sandra Peréz Celis for their immense assistance in helping get Parr Instrument Company’s website translated into Spanish!

We are pleased to announce that Jim Nelson has been elected as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Parr Instrument Company.

Mike Steffenson remains a vital part of the day to day operations at Parr as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Steve Ciucci who has served as our Chief Operating Officer for the past 13 years has assumed the position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

We are certainly excited for our new website launch. There are too many changes to list so we invite you to look around the site.

We encourage you to register on our new site to gain access to instruction manuals and other secured information. Please note that the login credentials for subscribers to our old site did not carry over to the new site and all users will have to register again.

We hope you find the new and improved Parr Instrument Company website more functional and easier to use than our previous site. Please contact us with any comments, suggestions, or questions regarding our new site.