Tanbark designs and manufactures high-end packaging solutions with molded fiber, a compostable material made from sustainably harvested plant and wood fiber from Maine. The company was founded in 2021 by husband-and-wife Chris and Melissa LaCasse who saw an opportunity to address the environmental crisis caused by single-use plastics through the expanded use of molded fibers beyond the large run, commodity applications where it currently thrives (such as egg cartons). Existing machinery was simply too expensive to serve customers with low to medium order sizes, despite the increasing social and policy imperatives to move beyond plastics. Tanbark’s innovative machinery allows for price-competitive small volume runs of molded fiber packaging that can be customized with color, texture, embossments, and shapes.
