MIRA INFORM REPORT

Report No. :	509743
Report Date :	19.05.2018

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Name :	PARR INSTRUMENT COMPANY
Registered Office :	211 53rd St, Moline, IL 61265-1770
Country :	United States
Financials (as on) :	2016
Date of Incorporation :	1899
Legal Form :	Corporation
Line of Business :	Manufactures And Sells Chemical Reactors, Pressure Vessels, Calorimeters, Combustion Vessels, And Related Equipment For Laboratory Use
No. of Employees :	120

RATING & COMMENTS

(Mira Inform has adopted New Rating mechanism w.e.f. 23^rd January 2017)

MIRA’s Rating :

A+

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A+	Low Risk	Business dealings permissible with low risk of default

Status :	Good
Payment Behaviour :	Regular
Litigation :	Clear

NOTES :

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ECGC Country Risk Classification List

Country Name	Previous Rating (30.09.2017)	Current Rating (31.12.2017)
United States	A1	A1

Risk Category	ECGC Classification
Insignificant	A1
Low Risk	A2
Moderately Low Risk	B1
Moderate Risk	B2
Moderately High Risk	C1
High Risk	C2
Very High Risk	D

UNITED STATES - ECONOMIC OVERVIEW

The US has the most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $59,500. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers, pharmaceuticals, and medical, aerospace, and military equipment; however, their advantage has narrowed since the end of World War II. Based on a comparison of GDP measured at purchasing power parity conversion rates, the US economy in 2014, having stood as the largest in the world for more than a century, slipped into second place behind China, which has more than tripled the US growth rate for each year of the past four decades.

In the US, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, businesses face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets.

Long-term problems for the US include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits.

The onrush of technology has been a driving factor in the gradual development of a "two-tier" labor market in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. But the globalization of trade, and especially the rise of low-wage producers such as China, has put additional downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on the return to capital. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households. Since 1996, dividends and capital gains have grown faster than wages or any other category of after-tax income.

Imported oil accounts for more than 50% of US consumption and oil has a major impact on the overall health of the economy. Crude oil prices doubled between 2001 and 2006, the year home prices peaked; higher gasoline prices ate into consumers' budgets and many individuals fell behind in their mortgage payments. Oil prices climbed another 50% between 2006 and 2008, and bank foreclosures more than doubled in the same period. Besides dampening the housing market, soaring oil prices caused a drop in the value of the dollar and a deterioration in the US merchandise trade deficit, which peaked at $840 billion in 2008. Because the US economy is energy-intensive, falling oil prices since 2013 have alleviated many of the problems the earlier increases had created.

The sub-prime mortgage crisis, falling home prices, investment bank failures, tight credit, and the global economic downturn pushed the US into a recession by mid-2008. GDP contracted until the third quarter of 2009, the deepest and longest downturn since the Great Depression. To help stabilize financial markets, the US Congress established a $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in October 2008. The government used some of these funds to purchase equity in US banks and industrial corporations, much of which had been returned to the government by early 2011. In January 2009, Congress passed and former President Barack OBAMA signed a bill providing an additional $787 billion fiscal stimulus to be used over 10 years - two-thirds on additional spending and one-third on tax cuts - to create jobs and to help the economy recover. In 2010 and 2011, the federal budget deficit reached nearly 9% of GDP. In 2012, the Federal Government reduced the growth of spending and the deficit shrank to 7.6% of GDP. US revenues from taxes and other sources are lower, as a percentage of GDP, than those of most other countries.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required major shifts in national resources from civilian to military purposes and contributed to the growth of the budget deficit and public debt. Through FY 2018, the direct costs of the wars will have totaled more than $1.9 trillion, according to US Government figures.

In March 2010, former President OBAMA signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a health insurance reform that was designed to extend coverage to an additional 32 million Americans by 2016, through private health insurance for the general population and Medicaid for the impoverished. Total spending on healthcare - public plus private - rose from 9.0% of GDP in 1980 to 17.9% in 2010.

In July 2010, the former president signed the DODD-FRANK Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a law designed to promote financial stability by protecting consumers from financial abuses, ending taxpayer bailouts of financial firms, dealing with troubled banks that are "too big to fail," and improving accountability and transparency in the financial system - in particular, by requiring certain financial derivatives to be traded in markets that are subject to government regulation and oversight.

In December 2012, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced plans to purchase $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed and Treasury securities in an effort to hold down long-term interest rates, and to keep short-term rates near zero until unemployment dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2.5%. The Fed ended its purchases during the summer of 2014, after the unemployment rate dropped to 6.2%, inflation stood at 1.7%, and public debt fell below 74% of GDP. In December 2015, the Fed raised its target for the benchmark federal funds rate by 0.25%, the first increase since the recession began. With continued low growth, the Fed opted to raise rates several times since then, and in December 2017, the target rate stood at 1.5%.

In December 2017, Congress passed and President Donald TRUMP signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which, among its various provisions, reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%; lowers the individual tax rate for those with the highest incomes from 39.6% to 37%, and by lesser percentages for those at lower income levels; changes many deductions and credits used to calculate taxable income; and eliminates in 2019 the penalty imposed on taxpayers who do not obtain the minimum amount of health insurance required under the ACA. The new taxes took effect on 1 January 2018; the tax cut for corporations are permanent, but those for individuals are scheduled to expire after 2025. The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) under the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the new law will reduce tax revenues and increase the federal deficit by about $1.45 trillion over the 2018-2027 period. This amount would decline if economic growth were to exceed the JCT’s estimate.

Source : CIA

STATUTORY INFORMATION
Legal Name:	PARR INSTRUMENT COMPANY
Trade Names:	PARR INSTRUMENT COMPANY
ID:	64746502
Date Created:	1899
Date Incorporated:	1899
Legal Address:	211 53rd St Moline, IL 61265-1770, USA
Operative Address:	211 53RD ST MOLINE, IL, 61265-1770 United States
Telephone:	309-762-7716
Fax:	309-762-9453
Legal Form:	CORPORATION
Email:	parr@parrinst.com
Registered in:	ILLINOIS
Website:	http://www.parrinst.com/
Contact:	Jim Nelson - President and Chief Operating Officer
Staff:	120
Activity:	SIC Code 3821, Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture NAICS Code 333997, Scale and Balance Manufacturing
Banks:	BANK OF AMERICA
History:	The company was founded in 1899 and is based in Moline, Illinois with a sales and service branch in Frankfurt, Germany. Parr Instrument Company was formerly known as Burgess-Parr and changed its name to Parr Instrument Company on January 1927.
PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY
	Parr Instrument Company manufactures and sells chemical reactors, pressure vessels, calorimeters, combustion vessels, and related equipment for laboratory use.
Products/Services description:	It offers stirred reactors, non-stirred pressure vessels, multi reactor systems, tubular reactor systems, specialty and custom systems, shaker hydrogenation apparatus, oxygen bomb calorimeters, and sample preparation products. The company also provides support services, such as training, repairs, warranty, and other services. It sells its products through dealers in the United States and internationally.
Brands:	PARR
Sales are:	Wholesale
Clients:	Casa Cientifica Blanco Y Compania Limitada Bionourisso S De Rl De Cv Cesar Vasconez Importaciones Cia Ltda Garces Espinel Jaime Danilo. Jose Jalil Hijos Representaciones Y Comercio Cia Ltda. Equipam Indust Y Agric Srl.
Suppliers:	Equipack Sa De Cv
Operations area:	National and International
The company imports from	MEXICO
The company exports to	COLOMBIA MEXICO ECUADOR PARAGUAY
The subject employs	120 employees
Payments:	Regular
LOCATION
Headquarters :	211 53RD ST MOLINE, IL, 61265-1770 United States
Comments on Address:	-
Branches:	No other branches were found.
Related Companies:	No related companies were found.
GROUP STRUCTURE AND SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES
Listed at the stock exchange:	NO
Capital:	NA
Shareholders:	The company does not disclose information on shareholders. We were not able to confirm major holders.
Management:	Mike Steffenson - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jim Nelson - President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Lehman - Director of Sales & Marketing Stephen Ciucci - Director Sales and Marketing; Sales Manager; Vice President Randy Steining – Vice President Jeffrey Wood - Vice President
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
	The company does not make its financial statements public. The following information has been provided by private sources:
USD 2016
Revenue	30.000.000
Net Income	10.000.000
Cash flow	Normal
LEGAL FILINGS
PATENTS	Pressure and temperature reaction vessel, method, and apparatus Patent number: 4882128 Abstract: A pressure and temperature reaction vessel is constructed from substantially microwave-transmissible materials. The vessel includes pressure-relief vents and a sliding seal which isolates a pressure reaction chamber from the vents. A visual indicator is operatively associated with the sliding seal to indicate pressure within the reaction chamber. At pressures above a preselected limit, the sliding seal becomes unsupported and the reaction chamber is fluidly communicated with the vents. Type: Grant Filed: July 31, 1987 Date of Patent: November 21, 1989 Assignee: Parr Instrument Company Inventors: Istvan S. Hukvari, Henry J. Albert, Vernon G. Moon, Michael R. Steffenson
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS	Government Contractor: PARR INSTRUMENT COMPANY Name & Address: 211 53RD ST MOLINE, IL 61265-1718 Number of Defense Contracts Awarded : 68 Dollar Amount of Defense Contracts Awarded:$1,265,158
CASES	Robinson v. Parr Instrument Company Plaintiff: Victor O. Robinson, Jr. Defendant: Parr Instrument Company Case Number: 4:2016cv04246 Filed: November 7, 2016 Court: Illinois Central District Court Office: Rock Island Office County: XX US, Outside State Presiding Judge: Sara Darrow Referring Judge: Jonathan E. Hawley Nature of Suit: Personal Injury- Product Liability Cause of Action: 28:1332 Jury Demanded By: Plaintiff
TRADEMARKS	PARR CALORIMETRIC CHEMICALS-NAMELY, BENZOIC ACID, [ POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE, BARIUM CHLORIDE, AND SODIUM PERIXODE ] FOR USE AS… Owned by: PARR INSTRUMENT COMPANY Serial Number: 72286300
RENEWAL HISTORY	No records found.
UCC	No records found.
OFAC Sanctions List Search	The company is not listed in the OFAC list.
SUMMARY
	Founded in 1899, Parr Instrument Company is an organization in the Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture Industry headquartered in Moline, IL. The company has 120 regular employees and generates an estimated $30 million in annual revenue. It operates nationally and internationally, mainly exporting to Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay. It is ACTIVE in business with no negative records.
RISK INFORMATION
DEBTS	Controlled
PAYMENTS	Regular
CASH FLOW	Normal
STATUS	Active
INTERVIEW
NAME	Ashley
POSITION	Receptionist
COMMENTS	She confirmed the name of the company, the address of the headquarters and location, the date of creation of the company, the number of employees and the name of the President.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES

Currency	Unit	Indian Rupees
US Dollar	1	INR 67.96
UK Pound	1	INR 91.88
Euro	1	INR 80.26
	1	INR

Note : Above are approximate rates obtained from sources believed to be correct

INFORMATION DETAILS

Analysis Done by :
Report Prepared by :	KET

RATING EXPLANATIONS

Credit Rating	Explanation	Rating Comments
A++	Minimum Risk	Business dealings permissible with minimum risk of default
A+	Low Risk	Business dealings permissible with low risk of default
A	Acceptable Risk	Business dealings permissible with moderate risk of default
B	Medium Risk	Business dealings permissible on a regular monitoring basis
C	Medium High Risk	Business dealings permissible preferably on secured basis
D	High Risk	Business dealing not recommended or on secured terms only
NB	New Business	No recommendation can be done due to business in infancy stage
NT	No Trace	No recommendation can be done as the business is not traceable

NB is stated where there is insufficient information to facilitate rating. However, it is not to be considered as unfavourable.

This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The assessed factors are as follows:

· Financial condition covering various ratios

· Company background and operations size

· Promoters / Management background

· Payment record

· Litigation against the subject

· Industry scenario / competitor analysis

· Supplier / Customer / Banker review (wherever available)

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