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Our former Business Retention & Expansion Manager shared something interesting on our LinkedIn page today. The Coca-Cola Main Street beverage manufacturing plant in Auburndale is featured for developing a new product called "Pulpy" for Chinese consumers. The article discusses the surge in Chinese demand for…

The Central Florida Development Council, along with the Lakeland Economic Development Council, is happy to announce the recent location of SteriPack to the Parkway Corporate Park in Lakeland! SteriPack is a leading manufacturer of flexible medical packaging and this announcement represents the location of their…

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Lakeland Regional Cancer Center (LRCC) is proud to have been initiated as the only enrolling site in the eastern United States for a metastatic melanoma clinical trial.  LRCC is now in the process of screening patients. The trial, which is developed by OncoSec Medical Incorporated, is…

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The Pasco Economic Development Council, Inc. announced the launch of the Florida Supplier Source, a new searchable website that connects Florida suppliers and manufacturers and reduces the cost of doing business in Florida. Manufacturers and suppliers can use this website as a free marketing tool…

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Robotics have become a big deal in Polk County. With the addition of Dr. Sijo Parekattil, the world's most experienced robotic microsurgeon, to Winter Haven Hospital last year, our educational institutions have become proactive to leverage his talent and enhance their opportunity to give their…

Dr. Raymond Morris and Dr. Carlos Otero of the University of South Florida Polytechnic’s College of Technology and Innovation will soon begin industry-funded research projects. Morris, a visiting assistant professor in the Division of Engineering, will work with Greenovative Homes of Lakeland. He and USF Poly…

Artist's rendering of the building that will house Pediatric Partners. It is being built in downtown Winter Haven where a vacant bank drive-through is located now. (Photo taken from The Ledger.)

A property on U.S. 17 in downtown Winter Haven will soon get a face lift, when a 22,000-square-foot medical building will replace the long vacant bank drive-through. The building, to be built on the block on the east side of U.S. 17 and between Pope Avenue…

Greenovative Homes, LLC is pleased to announce a cooperative research project with the University of South Florida Polytechnic in Lakeland.  The research will evaluate the effectiveness of Greenstar™ Panels (patent pending) to reduce temperature gains in attic spaces.  Dr. Raymond Morris, professor of engineering at USF Poly, will…

In their lab, the USF Polytechnic researchers erected a replica of Cephalon's conveyor system, enabling them to troubleshoot the RFID implementation in use at the drugmaker's Fentora plant.

  By setting up and operating a replica of the conveyor system used at the drugmaker’s Salt Lake City plant, the lab’s research team was able to raise read-write accuracy to more than 99 percent – up from 80 percent! Read more here.

CSX Intermodal facility under construction in Winter Haven

Our friend Stuart L. Rogel, the CEO and President of the Tampa Bay Partnership (TBP), spent some time visiting downtown Winter Haven last week. He shared his experience visiting one of our communities in an eNewsletter which is distributed to the many supporters of the…