Valicor is on a hiring spree, adding 37 people to its staff over the last year. The Dexter-based company also has 14 openings and employs 254 full-time employees and six interns.
"It (the company's growth) is a little bit faster than we expected," says Meredith Roe, director of human resources at
Valicor.
The 17-year-old company got its start recycling industrial fluids. Its services now include wastewater cleaning, ethanol work, extracting energy from algae and sustainability programs. Some of the primary drivers of its growth are its work in ethanol extraction in the Midwest and waster-water work in southern states.
Valicor has also been growing geographically. It recently opened a facility in Alabama and is aiming to open another location in Missouri later this year. The company also expanded its headquarters in Dexter last year with a $5 million investment. Valicor's latest hires have been across a broad range of job descriptions, such as truck drivers or research scientists.
Source: Meredith Roe, director of human resources at Valicor
Writer: Jon Zemke
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