Randy Keefer and Bonnie Mellott Keefer founded Energy Products and Technologies, Inc. in 1983. As the company grew and expanded from their basement to building a machine shop on Peach Orchard Road. Randy and Bonnie hired their first employees including a young man who started as part of the school-to-work program and is now their most valuable employee. Today the majority of their business is making parts for the industrial refrigeration market.