# Shawmut Corporation expands West Bridgewater plant for PPE production

Shawmut Corporation created a Health & Safety business unit and retrofitted about 70,000 square feet at its West Bridgewater, Massachusetts facility to make isolation gowns and N95 respirators. It also installed new assembly lines and automated production systems.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2021-02-17
- Where: West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, United States
- Status: completed
- Products: isolation gowns, N95 respirators, PPE
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Shawmut Corporation](https://endata.com/companies/7621.md)

## Sources

- [globenewswire.com](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/02/17/2177265/0/en/shawmut-corporation-announces-new-health-safety-business-unit.html), 2021-02-17: "the company retrofitted nearly 70,000 square feet of space in its West Bridgewater, MA manufacturing facility to produce isolation gowns and N95 respirators."

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