About Heat and Control

Five engineers in San Francisco, USA founded the company to focus on improving process heating applications, such as heat treatment furnaces and combustion systems.

Business focus expands to consumer goods manufacturing machinery, including snack food fryers, french fry oil blanchers, meat and poultry cooking and coating systems.

Heat and Control supports the North America food industry as it takes advantage of innovative processing lines that boost output to meet increasing consumer demand in French fry, snack and prepared foods.

Company increases emphasis on design and manufacture of complete processing systems for snacks and prepared food products to meet demand of a fast growing industry.

Heat and Control and Ishida introduce the Ishida computer combination weigher (CCW) to North America. 

Established in Livingston, Scotland with acquisition of manufacturing facility to support the UK and European markets . Today, Livingston is an engineering, projects and service hub for the European and North African markets.

New factory in Guadalajara, Mexico opens.

Acquire Greer Pty Ltd. (Brisbane, Australia). The Brisbane operation was a strategic location to serve the growing APAC market and becomes the operational liaison between USA HQ and global markets.

Expand into controls and information technologies with Stanwood, Washington, USA technology hub.

Introduced industry changing FastBack horizontal motion conveyors as well as a full line of transfer conveyors, fillers, and related equipment to improve product handling efficiency on food processing and packaging lines.

Acquire snack fryer manufacturer in Pembroke, New Hampshire, USA bringing the Mastermatic brand to the fryer catalog.

Acquisition of manufacturing facility in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. 

New offices in Cape Town, South Africa. The time was right to establish a dedicated team and office to support the African and sub Saharan region.

Headquarters move to a larger manufacturing site in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hayward, California, USA.

Open Pennsylvania, USA operations to support the East coast.

Full capability factory in Nanjing, China opens to provide a local source of machinery and technical support to the rapidly growing Chinese food processing market. 

Form partnership with CEIA S.p.A to provide sales and service for CEIA industrial metal detectors via the Heat and Control global network.

Expansion of Galesburg Illinois, USA and Brisbane, Australia manufacturing capacity occurs to meet increase in global demand.

Open offices and services in Chennai, India.

Open sales office in The Netherlands to support North, Central and Eastern Europe. Incorporated as Heat and Control B.V. a year later, expanding services to include sales, project management, project engineering, service, demonstration and trials.

Open engineering hub and offices in Dallas, Texas, USA.

Open CENTEC, a dedicated food processing training and technical center in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Acquire Flavorite Technologies, Indore, India to increase support for the fast-growing Indian savory snack industry.

Acquire Spray Dynamics in Missouri, USA to expand coating and seasoning system catalog.

Expand services in Brazil with opening of Sao Paulo factory.

Open full capability factory in Mahindra City, India

Strategic partnership with ScandiNova Systems AB, to deliver next generation Pulse Electric Field (PEF) technology to the food industry; E-FLO electroporation system.

Move St. Clair operations to full capability factory in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

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The new Lancaster, Pennsylvania site will expand support for the North American manufacturing industry and will meet the increased needs of pre-sale and after-market needs, including product/equipment testing, demonstrations, service support, and training.

The new facility in Mexico is the largest of the Heat and Control properties to date, and the head office for Mexico and Latin American operations. The new facility will significantly expand the company's abilities to serve new and existing customers with a total operational size of 356,651 sq. ft. (33,134 sq. m) including warehouse, manufacturing, R&D and demonstration center, and offices.

Our Cape Town presence was expanded with a new, purpose-built facility, opened in May 2023. This state-of-the-art development offers increased sales, engineering, and service space. Providing pre-sale and after-sale needs, it includes testing and demonstration facilities, spare parts, service and installation support to better meet regional demand and enhance our customers' interaction.