Crete-heads! Owen Blevins, ConcreteAnswers.TV bringing you the Internet’s most passionate show about concrete plants and equipment. The other day, Bobby Giannetti from Infern-O-Therm in Keyport, New Jersey, dropped by the world headquarters of ConcreteAnswers.TV to give us a little sit-down, I thought you guys might like to hear a couple of things that he had to say. So, listen up. OB: Crete-heads! Owen Blevins, ConcreteAnswers.TV bringing you the Internet’s most passionate show about concrete plants and equipment. Hey today, the man to my right, the man, the myth, the legend, Bobby Giannetti from Infern-O-Therm in Keyport, New Jersey is here, just to chat with us. We’ve got a little bit of a round-table going here, we were with each other for the day, we’re going to go to a conference tomorrow. I said, “Hey Bobby, would you do me a favor and just tell us a little bit about the history, maybe.” First of all, welcome to ConcreteAnswers.TV. BG: Thank you Owen, thanks for having me here. It’s good to be here. OB: It’s good to have you. So talk to me a little about the history. You’ve got a company that’s really rich in history. Talk to me a little bit about Infern-O-Therm, if you would please. BG: Infern-O-Therm is located in Keyport, New Jersey, right on the bay. You can look right across the bay and see New York City which is quite nice when you go home at night and come in in the morning. The company has been in its building since 1966. 25,000 square foot factory – all open-span so we can move the stuff around the way we’re supposed to. We’re a total vertical operation, but what’s really interesting about the building is that back in the nineteen-teens, 1915-1916, they built seaplanes there for World War I. OB: Get out of here! OK that’s right I remember you did tell me that. BG: The first airmail came out of there. Actually all it did was fly over the bay, went over to Perth Amboy. But it was the first airmail in the United States around that time. And then if you fast forward a little bit, they actually built Jeeps there and were shipped overseas during World War II. OB: No kidding. BG: And then I think it was vacant for a while and then we moved in around 1965-1966, so we’ve been in there for almost 40 years and that’s about it with the building. OB: Now when I’ve been in there to visit you on occasion I’ve seen your dad, Bob Senior. Tell me a little bit about your pop. BG: The company was started in 1960. It was started out in a little field up in North Jersey. It started small and my father, actually it was his second job he worked there as a serviceman and they used to do everything in the out-of-doors and they had a little sheet metal shop that they would do some of the other work in. So he’s been with the company from its inception, 1960-1961. And as it grew we were the first people to actually innovate direct fire tube heating and make it automated. Before that it was kind of like a stone-age type thing where you just kind of winged put a little gas flame in there, threw in a piece of lit newspaper to heat up the material that was in the tank. Infern-O-Therm actually developed the innovation and the automation, simple back then, and different than it is now, slightly different, to heat the product in the tank and keep it hot. OB: Very cool. Well guys, listen, thanks for being with us for a couple of minutes, I thought it was pretty cool to have Bobby here at the studios, the world headquarters of ConcreteAnswers.TV, so I want to thank you for stopping by and we’ll chat a little more, OK? BG: Absolutely. Any time. OB: Hey, see you next time on ConcreteAnswers.TV.
I think you stole one of my jokes regarding World Headquarters? The correct terminology would be GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS.
Nice production. Congratulations, I tlaked to Emil and he loved it too.
Jim