At Montana Global Health’s 40,000-square-foot facility in Evergreen, where the company has been manufacturing powder and liquid supplements since 2019, President Terri Chichester has anywhere between 35 to 71 employees at any given time. Her staff wears personal protective equipment and stands on concrete for 10-hour shifts, running machines, following regulations and providing quality checks for dietary supplements.

“It’s not a glamorous job,” Chichester said.

Chichester says in addition to the 150% tariffs that are getting slapped onto her products, maintaining a consistent workforce is her greatest challenge.

“We just need people who want to show up every day to work,” Chichester said.

At an Oct. 21 Flathead Manufacturing Symposium hosted by the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce, busine

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