Florachem is expanding its plant on Winter Lake Road
Where it is. On Winter Lake Road, near Highland City.
Chemical maker Florachem Corp wants to add a large new manufacturing and storage building at its Winter Lake Road plant.
Florachem Corp is working through the county review process to expand its plant at 3155 Winter Lake Road in Lakeland. The newest site plan on file, submitted in June 2026, proposes an 80,000-square-foot building with five bays plus parking, stormwater, and utility work. An earlier 2025 plan for a 59,500-square-foot light-manufacturing and storage building is marked closed-complete in county records.
Alongside the site plans, the company has a state environmental (ERP) application in to modify an existing permit for the expansion's first phase, covering about 10.2 acres of its roughly 20-acre site. A building permit for an aluminum cover over existing concrete is in the inspections stage, and a request to be exempt from the full parking requirement — on the grounds that the site is meant for employees only — was filed in October 2026.
The county's 80,000-square-foot site plan currently shows "Revisions Required" and the state environmental application is marked "Incomplete," so the expansion is still moving through review.
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3 of 5 open straight to the record. The rest need a sign-in at the agency, or a search on its portal.
aca-prod.accela.com Polk County site plan LDDRC-2025-286 (59,500 sq ft)
aca-prod.accela.com Polk County building permit BC-2026-777 (aluminum cover)
aca-prod.accela.com Polk County parking waiver 26TMP-060350
aca-prod.accela.com · agency portal — search for the case number SWFWMD ERP 942463 (Phase I, permit 45389.1)
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