Deltona began in 1962 as Deltona Lakes, a planned community the Mackle Brothers built on the north shore of Lake Monroe, and it didn't incorporate as a city until 1995. Today it holds a 2020 census population of 93,692 and sits inside the Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach metro as a bedroom community with no packaging equipment or manufacturing capacity of its own. Families here drive the short distance to Daytona Beach for handmade chocolates and candy from a chocolatier that has tempered cocoa there since 1925, and DeLand's small-batch coffee roasters, running since 2014, are close enough for a weekend supply trip. Both sit in the Volusia County corridor that actually makes and packages the food Deltona shoppers buy.

A confectioner tempering and wrapping chocolate needs a flow wrapper built for delicate, temperature-sensitive product, and a coffee roaster filling bags needs an EliteFill auger filler that holds a consistent dose batch after batch. Small batches don't forgive equipment that drifts. Chocolate only holds its temper and shine for so long once it's tempered. We build the seal that keeps it that way until the delivery truck reaches the shelf. Mars Series VFFS baggers and case packers pick up the rest of the line, from snack-style pouches to the cases that ship out to distribution, and our technicians handle the install and the service calls that follow.