WMTW-TV8 • November 15, 2023
One of Maine's newest manufacturing companies is looking to the past to help create a plastic-free future. Tanbark, based in Saco, makes sustainable packaging out of molder fiber, a product and process that has been around in Maine for more than a century and was actually invented here. "For the last 30 years, people have said 'We have plastic and styrofoam, what do we need this for?' That's changed," said Melissa Lacasse, founder and CEO of Tanbark. The company's packaging products are made from wood and plant fibers and Lacasse calls them an environmental solution to all the single-use products.