Keam Holdem Associates

From 1996 to 2007 Keam Holdem grew to have 25 professional employees and became one of the World’s most recognised specialist manufacturers of in-line moisture measuring instrumentation and microwave and radio frequency heating equipment.

Keam Holdem sold and performed $7 million worth of R&D and manufacturing projects in New Zealand and overseas in Australia, England, United States, Hong Kong and Israel. During this period we made the following achievements:

Sales of in-line moisture measurement systems manufactured by Keam Holdem to a value of $4 million

Sales of industrial microwave heating systems manufactured by Keam Holdem to a value of $3 million

Prov. Patent, “Microwave production of bio-char” May 2008.

Prov. Patent, ”Novel microwave heating application for the food industry”, March 2006.

Prov. Patent, “Calibration of microwave reflectometry measurements”, July 2004.

Prov. Patent, “Method and apparatus for biomedical measurements”, November 2000.

Rick resigned from Keam Holdem in 2008 to commence a career in Law. John has continued on trading as Microwave New Zealand Ltd using intellectual property that Rick and he (and everyone else with us) developed together.