By Matt Garfield - mgarfield@heraldonline.com 

Bradman Lake designs packaging equipment for the food industry

A company that makes food packaging machinery will get incentives to move to Rock Hill from Charlotte.

Bradman Lake makes shrink wrappers, carton products and similar equipment for the food industry. The company will bring 50 jobs to the SouthCross Corporate Center off North Cherry Road. No hiring information has been announced.

The City Council agreed Monday night to provide rebates on the first five years of property taxes on land, buildings and equipment. York County pitched in late last year with a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes deal, which can cut county taxes by 43 percent on equipment Bradman Lake brings to the facility.

It’s the second food-related business to move to Rock Hill in the past six months. A food seasoning maker called Carolina Ingredients recently settled in a new home at Waterford Business Park on the city’s eastern edge.

Bradman Lake will move into a 40,000-square-foot building at SouthCross, a 40-acre business park near Interstate 77. It’s a “spec” building, meaning developers put it up before they landed a tenant.

“Having available buildings is such a big factor to be able to compete,” said Rick Norwood, marketing manager for the city’s economic development office. “The market is a little bit bare in those sizes.”

A subsidiary of a British group called Langley Holdings, Bradman Lake says it specializes in the design, development and manufacture of packaging machinery to global customers.