When Albanese Confectionery, of Merrillville, IN, only manufactured chocolate, it didn’t need a boiler. But the plunge into gummy bears made them bite the bullet and go boiler shopping.
Scott Albanese, owner of the firm, remembers his first reaction to the thought of installing a boiler. “It wasn’t that long ago that a boiler exploded and killed a guy in Portage, Indiana. It was in all our papers out here, as well as in the Chicago papers, and it was a big story on the nightly news. So boilers are intimidating.