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About Patterson-Kelley
Company Overview
Patterson-Kelley is an internationally recognized market leader and major producer of heat transfer equipment, including hot water boilers and water heaters for institutional and commercial building applications such as schools, office and apartment buildings, dormitories, hospitals and hotels. The PK line of precision equipment for batch and continuous powder blending, batch drying, granulation and laboratory powder mixers and blenders also make our company a leading process solutions provider to the pharmaceutical, chemical and food-processing industries.
With over 125 years’ experience and an innovative R&D pipeline, PK is highly regarded for bringing value-added solutions to the marketplace. PK hot water boilers, the mainstay of our company, are sold in the NAFTA market. PK’s heat transfer equipment is consistently specified by knowledgeable architects, engineers and contractors for a wide range of installations – from high profile projects like the White House and the Mayo Clinic to small users. They know our cutting edge technology is backed by sound engineering to produce rugged, dependable, highly efficient boilers and water heaters.
PK’s manufacturing plant, Customer Service Lab and company headquarters are in East Stroudsburg, PA. We also maintain a fully functional heat transfer training lab, providing hands-on training on actual equipment, for over 5,000 technicians and service contractors over the past ten years. Our process equipment group operates a Research and Development/Customer Test Lab supervised by a Ph.D. and professional engineer assisted by trained technicians. Our test results are guaranteed.
Our extensive network of authorized representatives and dealers provides outstanding consultative services and solutions, sales and customer support to thousands of satisfied PK customers.
We Are A Division of Harsco Corporation, a $3.7 Billion, Multi-National Corporation
We are a division of Harsco Corporation (NYSE:HSC), a leading Fortune 1000 global industrial services and engineered products company with 21,000 employees and operations in 45 countries around the world. With worldwide growth, solid business strategies and strong earnings, Harsco is well positioned to apply its resources to maximize our successes in manufacturing technologies, customer services and solutions. Harsco’s investments in new plants and equipment, efficiencies in global purchasing, strong internal controls and standards of corporate governance ensure PK’s continued leadership as the center of excellence in the heat transfer and process equipment industries.
A History of Cutting Edge Innovation
Founded in 1880 as Benjamin F. Kelley & Company, PK has evolved over the years, continually adapting and changing to lead the marketplace. In fact, the company’s very first product, feed water heaters, introduced pioneering technology with “U” tube bundles. Following the death of its founder, the Kelley Company merged in 1917 with his son-in-law’s organization, Frank L. Patterson & Company. After World War II the business focus shifted from storage water heaters to more complicated, customer-engineered heat exchangers and other commercial and industrial products. R&D within PK’s Chemical Process Division led the company into the development of blending equipment in the 1950’s. PK introduced a major innovation, the V-shaped Twin Shell® Blender, setting a new industry standard for precise, uniform blending.
Following its 1974 acquisition by Harsco Corporation, PK continued to lead the marketplace. In 1987 we entered the gas-fired commercial boiler industry, developing new cutting edge products that solve customers’ problems, including most recently, the industry’s first all purpose boiler, the MACH® Series boiler which is helping PK’s customers reduce their fuel bills by as much as 80%.