Inside Spark: Courtney and Ethan Just Keep Riding!
Wednesday, 02 August 2023
We have two Spark Employees who have impressive streaks of consecutive months of snowboarding. Courtney McNiff is our Human Resources Administrator and Ethan Marcoux is a Machinist and Design Engineer. They were nice enough to answer a few questions regarding their inspiring feats!
- Published in Inside Spark
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Spark R&D Expansion!
Thursday, 05 May 2022
We’re pleased to announce that last October, we finalized the purchase of a second 7,000 sq/ft building across the street from the 12,000 sq/ft building we’ve utilized for over ten years. We explored numerous options for expansion, including building another facility, but ultimately, we were able to work with a local family that owned the building adjacent to us. This building has housed multiple businesses over the last 3 decades under their ownership, and it feels nice to become stewards of the building putting the space to good use.
- Published in Cool Stuff, Inside Spark
Inside Spark-Jake Cameron
Thursday, 12 August 2021
Meet Jake Cameron, a Tooling Engineer at Spark R&D! When you see Jake around the shop, it's always worth asking him what he was riding the weekend before - it's usually something pretty sweet. Jake is an excellent engineer and gets after it in the mountains surrounding Bozeman.
- Published in Inside Spark
Inside Spark-Tyler Bakke
Monday, 28 June 2021
This summer we’re going to share a couple of interviews with some of our amazing Spark employees that make it all happen! The first employee we want to feature is Tyler Bakke, pad printer extraordinaire turned machinist!
- Published in Inside Spark
Solar Powered Splitboard Bindings
Thursday, 09 August 2018
We are stoked to announce that we have completed installing a 50kW solar array on the roof of Spark R&D! Like most big projects, many things had to fall into place in order for us to get here.
- Published in Inside Spark
Episode 5 – Spark R&D Podcast – Spark’s Machining Manager Ethan Marcoux
Friday, 06 October 2017
In honor of Manufacturing Day 2017, a day devoted to modern manufacturing and inspiring the next generation of manufacturers, we spoke with Ethan about his role in the manufacturing process here at Spark R&D. In the interview, he discusses how he became an engineer, his role and responsibilities at Spark R&D, and of course, how much he’s looking
Inside Spark: Machining Manager Ethan Marcoux
Monday, 25 September 2017
Few at Spark have a longer tenure than our Machining Manager, Ethan Marcoux. He is the epitome of the work hard, play hard mentality that is common here at our HQ in Bozeman, MT. During the winter Ethan puts as many days on snow as just about anyone in the shop. His love of the
- Published in Inside Spark, Technology
Baker Splitfest 2017
Monday, 10 April 2017
The Baker Splitfest is a meeting of the splitboard tribe and annual pilgrimage for the Spark crew. It is an event we look forward to every season. This year we took off from Bozeman eight deep in two vehicles with a couple of simple goals: 1) get shredders out on our gear via the demo, and
- Published in Events, Inside Spark, Spark in the Field
A Decade Deep – An Interview with Becca & Will Ritter
Wednesday, 21 December 2016
A decade has gone by since we unveiled a primitive prototype of the first splitboard specific binding on splitboard.com. It has been a fun, fulfilling, and really exciting time to go from concept to company.
- Published in Inside Spark, Products, Spark World Wide, Technology
Episode 2 – Spark R&D Podcast – Becca and Will Ritter
Thursday, 01 December 2016
Becca and Will Ritter, the co-owners of Spark R&D, were nice enough to take some time to chat with us for the podcast. We talked about how Spark R&D began, some highs and lows over the last 10 years, and their hopes for the future.
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