- December 13, 2025
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By John Haughey | Contributing Writer
A few years ago, with the orange juice industry reeling from citrus greening, a bacterium that kills orange trees, there was some doubt about John Bean Technologies Corp.'s future in Polk County.
Economic development officials were concerned Chicago-based JBT might shut down its 146,000-square-foot, citrus-processing equipment plant in Lakeland — and leave its 150 employees without jobs.
