The new building comes at an important time for the company. Supply chain constraints have us buying everything from aluminum to cardboard boxes in much larger quantities, and much earlier than in the past.” We now have space to add more employees, add new machines, and perhaps most crucially, store raw materials. Will continues, “We definitely took advantage of the additional space this season, but more importantly, the addition gives us the ability to plan for future growth. This move freed up space to immediately add a brand-new EC-400 milling machine with a 7-pallet changer along with a new Automatic Lathe screw machine which aided in the final production runs for the 21/22 season. The company finalized the purchase in October of 2021 and moved their entire finished product warehouse across the street shortly after closing on the building. The greenest building is one that already exists, so it feels good from a sustainability perspective as well.”
We had architectural plans drawn up to expand on our current lot, but with a stroke of luck, we were able to purchase the building adjacent to us privately from some nice local Montanans. Spark’s owner and CFO, Becca Ritter elaborates, “We’ve been working on this for years, but Bozeman is not the easiest place to find commercial real-estate. In terms of manufacturing, we had simply run out of ways to move our machinery and people around or store the massive amounts of raw materials we use to operate at this level.” “We’ve been scaling for years, but the last few seasons in particular we’ve seen an incredible increase in demand for splitboard gear. “We’ve known for some time now that we were going to need to expand our physical space,” explains Will Ritter, Spark R&D’s owner and lead designer.
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