RUMFORD – Directors at Tuesday afternoon’s River Valley Technology Center board meeting shared ideas about recruiting tenants, but had nothing concrete to offer.

Acting Director Diane Ray of Canton said two people are interested in starting a precision metals businesses at the center. They should be getting business plans to her within two weeks, she added.

Additionally, she’s continuing talks with a Lewiston call center and a Tennessee-based physician’s messaging call center that recently announced it is locating a center in Farmington.

She’s also looking for entrepreneurs to commercialize composite products from a lab in Orono.

Most startups coming into the technology center will be capital intensive, she said, which means there’s a need to find local private investors or investment pools.

Ray said she was contacted by a company in the Midwest seeking specifically-trained employees, after they heard about the recently announced layoffs at Rumford’s NewPage Inc.

In other business, center President Dick Lovejoy said all the windows in the center’s third and fourth floors facing west have been replaced. Wooden window frames on the upper floors are rotting and putty is falling off, creating falling window-pane hazards.

A recent price quote estimated the cost of replacing the windows on those floors at $100,000, Ray said.