Lehigh Acres sits fifteen miles from Fort Myers, where citrus packinghouses and chocolatiers produce at scale. We supply the flow wrappers, pouch fillers, and case packers Southwest Florida food and beverage producers need to ship fresh product.
Lehigh Acres sits fifteen miles from Fort Myers, where citrus packinghouses and chocolatiers produce at scale. We supply the flow wrappers, pouch fillers, and case packers Southwest Florida food and beverage producers need to ship fresh product.
Lehigh Acres sits fifteen miles east of Fort Myers in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers corridor, a stretch of Southwest Florida where packaging automation moves citrus, juice, and confections from grove and kitchen to grocery shelf. Chicago developer Lee Ratner platted the community in the mid-1950s as a grid of half- and quarter-acre residential lots, and it has grown into a bedroom community with a 2020 census population of 114,287 and little industry of its own. Production sits in Fort Myers instead, where a third-generation packinghouse squeezes citrus into fresh juice and a chocolatier founded in 2001 has built a national reputation for premium chocolates that ship well beyond the county line.
A chocolatier wrapping delicate shells needs a wrapper that won't crush them, and a juice packer sealing fresh-squeezed citrus needs a bottle-fill line that seals every bottle before the drive north. We answer both with Pack Series flow-wrap lines that wrap each chocolate individually before it goes into a gift box, and premade pouch and bottle-fill lines that seal and label fresh juice before it leaves the packinghouse. The chocolates travel farther, so gift boxes built for national orders take a different case pack than juice bottles headed to nearby Cape Coral and Fort Myers grocers. Mars Series VFFS baggers round out the line for any dry-mix or powdered product a producer adds later, and case packers box everything bound for distribution beyond the Cape Coral-Fort Myers corridor.


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