Renovation leaves candy manufacturer with sweet taste
FBI manufactures non-chocolate candies and snacks, including drops and mints, fruit roll-ups and gummi-type candies, as well as caramel-based candies and ingredient supplies. As a co-packer, FBI packages the majority of its non-chocolate candy products.
Looking to expand and automate their processing capability, FBI selected equipment that required a lot of design and utility work. "When you put in a complex processing system, if you don't have the proper utilities for it, it's not going to function properly," commented McEvoy. They turned to an old friend, Shambaugh & Son, L.P., Fort Wayne, Ind., for help. "We've done a half a dozen multi-million dollar projects over the last five years with Shambaugh, but this was more complicated due to the technology we were installing."