Look inside Tropicana plant reveals manufacturing operation with precise processes, staggering numbers

Tropicana's plant in Bradenton processes about 4 billion oranges annually.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:10 a.m. March 22, 2019
Lori Sax. Tropicana Bradenton Plant Director Cliff McDerment says the plant processes about four billion oranges annually.
Lori Sax. Tropicana Bradenton Plant Director Cliff McDerment says the plant processes about four billion oranges annually.
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One of the main sources of Tropicana orange juice — one of the most widely recognized orange juice brands in the world — comes from a plant in Bradenton.

 

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