Industries
Industry and Business Recruitment and Support
We identify and work to overcome potential threats to area businesses and position existing industry for growth, while also fostering both an attitude and environment for attracting and supporting new business opportunities. This may mean purchasing businesses for sale in Maine to enhance them, creating your own start-up, or receiving help to make your current business successful.
- Energy
- Broadband
- Legislative Advocacy Partners
- NMDC
- SADC
- Loring Development Authority
- Presque Isle Industrial Council
Industry Clusters
To minimize hurdles for businesses in Maine and establish clear goals for advancing the competitive advantages of Aroostook County, we strive to engage and support industry clusters focused on leveraging the region’s abundant forests, farmland, and manufacturing potential.
Manufacturing
- Huber Engineered Woods
- Irving Forest Products
- Penobscot McCrum
- Pineland Farms
- McCain Foods
- Daaquam Lumber
- Maine Woods Company
- Louisiana Forest Product
- Smith and Wesson
- Twin Rivers Paper
- Columbia Forest Products
- Katahdin Cedar Log Homes
- Ward Cedar Log Homes
Education
- University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI)
- University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK)
- Northern Maine Community College (NMCC)
- Maine School of Science and Math
- Loring Job Corps Center
Healthcare
- Cary Medical Center
- Pines Health Center
- Northern Light Health
- Northern Maine Medical Center
- Houlton Regional Hospital
Insurance and Financial Services
- Maine Mutual Group (MMG)
- Katahdin Trust Company
- United Insurance
- KeyBank
- County Federal Credit Union
- Machias Savings Bank
- Acadia Federal Credit Union
- NorState Federal Credit Union
- Aroostook County Federal Savings and Loan
- TD Bank
- F.A. Peabody Insurance Company
Government
- Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Emerging Industries
- Aerospace—Vault Enterprizes
- Mikmaq Farms & Fish Hatchery
- Maine Malt House
- Whole Trees
Non-Profit
- Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC)
- Aroostook County Action Program (ACAP)
- Aroostook Area Agency on Aging (AAAA)
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