Tanbark’s startup ‘wow’ power
December 12th, 2022
CEO pleasantly surprised by the number and quality of job applicants
Tanbark and CEO, Melissa LaCasse were recently featured in a Mainebiz article:
Widgets, workers and wages: Maine manufacturers get more strategic about recruiting
Here are a few highlights:
“It’s not just larger or established manufacturers who are in hiring mode.”
“After winning the Gorham Savings Bank LaunchPad business-pitch competition in June, the company used its $50,000 prize money to pay freelance industrial designers with the goal of eventually bringing someone on full-time.
Tanbark, now at more than seven employees, aims to create 50 manufacturing jobs over the next three years, using virgin pulp and Maine labor “to fill a manufacturing void and transform an industry,” LaCasse said in her winning pitch.”
“We’re new and growing, so we’re tending to attract people who are attracted to the idea,” she says. “