Can you commit to peak-season response?

Yes. We pre-stage spares and dedicate field-engineering capacity to citrus customers from November through April. Service-contract customers get priority response during the peak.

Do you support legacy FMC, Brown, and Citromatic equipment?

Yes. Most of our citrus customers run a mix of legacy and current-generation equipment. We carry parts, can rebuild legacy assemblies, and can engineer modern controls retrofits onto older mechanical platforms.

Industry

Fluid Power & Automation for Citrus & Agriculture

Citrus is what made Florida agriculture the industry it is, and a lot of our oldest customer relationships are in the citrus-juice and packing belt — Polk, Hardee, Highlands, DeSoto, Hendry counties. Citrus juicing runs hard November through April, then ramps down. The seasonality means everything has to work during peak; mid-season failures are catastrophic to throughput.

What makes this industry different

The challenges that determine your spec.

Every industry punishes equipment differently. We’ve organized what we’ve learned from years inside citrus & agriculture plants into the constraints we account for in every spec we write.

Seasonal-peak reliability

A valve that lasts 600 days in normal duty might last 60 in a citrus juicing peak. Spec for the peak, not the average.

Citrus oil contamination

Citrus oil aerosolizes into compressed-air supply and degrades elastomer seats. Coalescing filtration upstream of valve banks adds modestly to install cost and meaningfully to service life.

Heat and humidity

Most plants are open-air or partial-enclosure. Hydraulic systems run hotter, oil oxidizes faster, electronics struggle. Heat-tolerant component spec'ing matters.

Off-season retrofit window

May–October is the time to do invasive work. Plants want it scoped, built, and ready to drop in during the changeover. We pre-build during the season for off-season installs.

Most relevant capabilities

What we typically bring to this industry.

Capability

Fluid Power

Sixty-five years of pneumatic and hydraulic engineering — from a single push-to-connect fitting to a complete custom power unit.

Recommended manufacturer partners

Brands that earn their keep here.

Industry-specific recommendations from our spec sheet. Plant-floor-tested, not catalog-ranked.

MAC

Camozzi

Eaton

Engagements in Citrus & Agriculture

Recent work in this industry.

Citrus juicing line with industrial pneumatic finishers

10×

longer valve life

Citrus & Agriculture·August 22, 2024·6 min

10× longer valve life on a citrus juicing line

The customer was burning through poppet-style solenoid valves on the FMC extractor finishers at an alarming clip — average mean time between failures of 38 days, sometimes as little as 26 days during peak season. Each failure took the affected extractor offline for 90 minutes, and during November–April that meant losing roughly 4,200 gallons of juice per incident at peak rates.

Frequently asked

Questions we hear most

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On the floor in citrus & agriculture

Show us your worst line.

Tell us where it hurts. A senior application engineer will respond within one business day — same-day for true downtime emergencies.

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On-site responseSame day in the Tampa Bay area

Average audit2 days on the floor · 10-day report

Engineering staff27 application & field engineers

LanguagesEnglish & Spanish, in-territory