Company History

Past

Keller Angelillis, Inc. was started in 1955 by H.J. Keller, his son Robert D. Keller and his son-in-law Ralph C. Angelillis.

In the beginning, we concentrated all our work in the citrus industry, building piping, evaporators, stills, fruit bins, bucket elevators, dryers, and screw conveyors to haul the peelings, etc. In 1971 we built the first stainless steel storage tank to hold orange concentrate for a company called Ben Hill Griffin in Frostproof, Florida. It was a small tank, about 2,000 gallons, but that event started the assembly of large storage tanks all over the state of Florida. At one time or another, we built stainless steel storage tanks for every major citrus company in the state of Florida.

In 1972, we were hired by Castleton Beverage (Bacardi) in Jacksonville, FL and for the next 4 years fabricated tanks as large as 250,000 gallons and as small as 40,000 gallons. We ran the piping, pumps and even installed 6 conveyor lines to carry the rum in their cartons from the warehouse to the filling machines and back to the warehouse. In a period of about 10 years we built at least 9 million gallons worth of storage tanks at Castleton. For the last 25 years we also worked with the Bacardi plant in Nassau, Bahamas. We built most of the outside storage tanks, ran the piping from the shore to the tankards and in the late 90’s completed much needed upgrades to the plant.

In the 1980’s we began adapting our manufacturing capabilities to the Wastewater Treatment industry. We began to construct screw and belt conveyors to move sludge, the residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes. We also built the dryers that transform the sludge into biosolids, one of the many stages in the complex treatment process. We installed the first sludge conveyor system at Lake Buena Vista and continue to upgrade their system as requested. At this time Keller Sales has conveyor systems in at least 200 cities/counties in the state of Florida.

Present

In February 2008 we moved into our brand new 8000 sq ft. manufacturing facility. The company is now run by Gerald Keller (son of Robert D. Keller) and Charles Angelillis (son of Ralph C. Angelillis) and to highlight that aspect we changed our name to Keller-Angelillis Design & Manufacturing, Inc. For the last 53 years the company has been family-owned and operated and many of our employees have over 25 years of experience. We have an outstanding reputation in our different fields of expertise. We are the ones you want to call to handle all your metal design and fabrication needs. We strive to provide the highest level of customer service and satisfaction all over the State of Florida or anywhere our systems are needed in the world.