Parker Hannafin

With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. Parker’s expertise spans the core motion and control technologies – electromechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic – as well as a full compliment of fluid control systems; software and electronic controls; filtration systems; and refrigeration, instrumentation and sealing technologies.

Parker employs more than 57,000 people in 43 countries around the world. The company operates 287 manufacturing plants, producing 900,000 products for 427,000 global customers. Parker’s distribution network is the largest in its industry, with some 12,000 distributor, wholesale and retail locations.

With annual sales exceeding $125 million the Instrumentation Products Division has three locations in Alabama.  The division headquarters is in Huntsville with two other manufacturing facilities located in Jacksonville and Boaz.

The Boaz, AL location employees 154 employees with annual sales exceeding $50 million.  This facility specializes in machining and the assembly of stainless steel fittings for instrumentation applications in markets such as oil and gas, power generation, and chemical processing.

 

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