Premix signs $79.9 million contract for a new production facility in the U.S.
GASTONIA, N.C. and HELSINKI, May 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Defense, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $79.9 million contract to Premix, Inc. to establish a plastic compound manufacturing plant in North Carolina. The facility will primarily produce plastic materials for diagnostic testing. The facility will be built in Gaston County, centrally located in the growing region of advanced manufacturing in the southeast U.S. and is planned to be operational by September 2025.
- Family-owned Finnish-based Premix Group is a market leader and global forerunner in electrically conductive plastics.
- The new state-of-the-art facility will produce plastic compounds primarily suitable for pipette tips to meet the growing demand and stringent quality requirements for diagnostic testing.
- The increased production capacity will result in material for pipette tips enabling more than 200 million COVID-19 PCR tests monthly.
- Premix, Inc. is a U.S. company and subsidiary of Premix Oy, a 40+ -year-old Finnish company.