Puritan Medical Products

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded $110 million to Puritan Medical Products to procure equipment to increase domestic production capacity of foam tip swabs by 200 million per month by September 2021, to support COVID-19 testing.

HHS and DOD awarded an $11.6 million contract to Puritan Medical Products to expand domestic production capacity of Cue Sample Wands, the nasal swabs used with Cue Health's COVID-19 molecular testing system, aiming to reach 3 million swabs per month by March 2021.

Puritan Medical Products will open a new manufacturing facility in Pittsfield, Maine, to produce flocked swabs for COVID-19 testing, funded with $51.2 million from the CARES Act. The facility is expected to employ 200 workers and produce 50 million swabs per month.

Puritan Medical Products, with Cianbro Corp., is building a new factory in Pittsfield, Maine, to double its monthly production of coronavirus testing swabs to about 40 million, creating 150 jobs. The $75.5 million project is funded by the Defense Production Act.

Puritan Medical Products, in partnership with Cianbro and Bath Iron Works, will convert a 95,000-square-foot warehouse into a manufacturing facility to double production of COVID-19 testing swabs to 40 million per month. The project is funded by $75.5 million from the CARES Act and will create 150 jobs.