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Maine Maple Products

449 Lakewood Rd
Madison, ME 04950
1-800-310-3803
www.mainemapleproductsinc.com

Maple SyrupIf you are looking for pure, fresh Maine maple syrup, be sure and take a trip out to Maine Maple Products Inc. The company is located in the town of Madison and is the state's largest packager of maple syrup.

Maine Maple Products was founded by Raymond Titcomb in 1979. Titcomb sold the business in 1988, but continued to manage the company until it was sold in 1993 to Marc and Hélène Larivière of St-Zacharie, Quebec. The Larivières are no strangers to the maple industry; members of the Larivière family have been tapping trees at their sugar camp in Township 6, Range 19 for more than a century.

Hélène's grandfather, Napoléon Larivière, founded the sugar camp in the early 1900s, and the business has been run by Larivière family members ever since. Three of Marc and Hélène’s children purchased the 900-acre maple grove from their father in 1999, and today they work approximately 75,000 taps on 43,000 trees.

The Larivières had provided the bulk of the maple sap that Maine Maple Products processed for several years; so purchasing the company was a logical next step for them. Today, Marc and Hélène Larivière run both businesses with the help of their children.

While Maine Maple Products does operate a retail shop and Web site, the majority of their business is wholesale. The company operates a couple of trucks that spend each day crisscrossing the state to make deliveries. “We like being located in Madison because it provides easy access for transporting the sap from the sugar bush, and it is also centrally located for our distribution,” said Maine Maple Products Office Manager Eric Ellis.

During the course of a sugaring season the Larivières typically produce about 15,000 gallons of syrup, all of which is sent to Maine Maple Products to be packaged and distributed. The company also packages syrup from a handful of other producers in Somerset County.

According to Ellis, the Larivières stay busy as they split their time between the two businesses. “From January until the first of May, it is very busy at the processing plant up in Township 6, and a little slow on the wholesale end here in Madison,” said Ellis. “Then from June until early December it becomes a little bit of a balancing act, because we begin shipping throughout the state by the first of May, so things really start to pick up here in Madison.”

Maine is the second largest producer of maple syrup, producing about 300,000 gallons in 2006 according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Somerset County produces more syrup than any other county in Maine.

Maine Maple Products packages maple syrup in an assortment of grades, including light, medium, dark, extra dark and commercial grade in sizes ranging from a 3.4-ounce sample size all the way up to a 30-gallon drum. In addition to syrup, the company also sells maple candy, maple sugar, maple cream and even maple mustard. For more information on Maine Maple Products, visit their Web site at www.mainemapleproductsinc.com.