BY ADAM ATKINSON

North Country This Week

COLTON — Local maple producers will soon have a local outlet for CDL USA Maple Sugaring Equipment gear and supplies.

Local syrup production company North Country Maple Sales and Service LLC plans to open the doors on a new store front at 239 Tucker Road sometime in November or December, after starting construction sometime in October, said one of the owners Micah Murray.

The new store will be run by Murray, his two uncles Corey Murray and Kyle Murray, and his stepfather Jason Hill, and will dovetail with their existing maple syrup business.

Maple producers looking for pipeline materials and other gear for their production needs will have local access to a full range of CDL USA Sugaring Equipment products the store will distribute, Murray told North Country This Week.

The Vermont-based company offers tubing, valves, fittings, tools, buckets, evaporators, spouts and other sugaring gear. North Country Maple Sales’ new store front will be the go-to location for CDL equipment in the area.

“Right now we are able to sell CDL stuff, but we don’t have a building yet,” Murray told North Country This Week.

“This will be a one-stop shop in regard to sugaring supplies.”

“There is a lot of potential for the area for distributing these supplies,” said Murray.

Micah Murray said he and his partners had been in discussions with CDL to set up a distribution company for several months before inking the deal.

The new building will be 4,400 square feet with 2,400 feet of that a heated showroom with double glass doors, and the rest cold storage and warehouse space. The new building will be built in what is now a meadow off Tucker Road by Billy Bonno and his company Bonno Builders of Colton, Murray said.

Murray said the company will also offer service on all brands of sugaring equipment. The new store will have a small heated shop where customers will be able to bring in equipment for service, and will be handling some road calls.

“We are hoping to grow the maple economy in St. Lawrence County,” Murray told North Country This Week.