3M plans to triple its monthly domestic production of N95 masks after winning a pair of contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense worth more than $200 million.
The Maplewood-based company expects to be producing 96 million of the desperately needed respirator masks at its U.S. manufacturing facilities by October, according to a Thursday news release.
In January, 3M ramped up domestic production of N95 masks to 35 million a year. The two DOD contracts, one worth $76 million and the other worth $126 million, will allow the company to increase its output by 39 million units. Additional investments by 3M will boost that number by another 22 million.
“3M is working around the clock to get much-needed personal protective equipment to the nation’s frontline healthcare workers,” CEO Mike Roman said in his company’s news release. “Being selected for these contracts will allow us to increase our manufacturing capability even more.”
Construction of the equipment necessary to triple mask production is underway at a 3M plant in Wisconsin, where respirator manufacturing will begin in June, the company said.
The equipment will eventually be moved to 3M’s facility in Aberdeen, S.D., which “has been a key part of the company’s U.S. manufacturing strategy of personal protective equipment for decades and throughout the COVID-19 outbreak.”
Globally, 3M expects to double its annual output of N95 masks to 2 billion, racing to meet demand for the respirators created by the pandemic.
“In addition to partnering with the federal government to increase production of N95 respirators, 3M has also been working with the Trump administration to import a total of 166.5 million respirators from 3M’s overseas manufacturing facilities in China and other Asia locations,” the company. “Those imports have already begun and will continue over the coming months.”
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