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HEAT AND CONTROL
PRESIDENT TONY
CARIDIS REFLECTS
ON HISTORY, EYES
FUTURE OF FOOD
PROCESSING
By Zeke Jennings
Managing Editor
HEAT AND CONTROL was founded
in 1950 for the purpose of building and
servicing industrial furnaces in the
burgeoning San Francisco Bay Area,
where natural gas infrastructure was
still in its infancy.
The five partners, led by founder
Andy Caridis, saw a need not only
for industrial heating, but quickly
recognized a correlation between
that process and circulating hot oil
for cooking. By the 1960s, industrial
furnaces were on their way out and
Heat and Control was solely keyed in
on food processing innovation.
Today, Heat and Control is a global
company with factories and regional
offices around the world. Its products
stretch the entire processing line from
INDUSTRY PROFILES
 Heat and Control co-founder Andy Caridis, left, and current company president and son, Tony Caridis.
Heat and Control has grown into a global provider of food processing equipment since its humble
beginnings in 1950. Photo: Heat and Control
weighing and sorting to cooking to
packaging.
In June, Heat and Control kicked
off its 70th anniversary celebration.
We thought it was a good chance to
chat with current president Tony
Caridis, Andy's son, on the company's
history and the food processing
industry's future.
Produce Processing: Could you
share a little on the company's
early days and how it evolved?
Tony Caridis: My father and his (four)
partners started out building industrial
furnaces because the San Francisco
Bay Area had a large heavy industrial
manufacturing sector that needed all
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