Mil­li­pore­Sig­ma us­es DOD funds to ex­pand Wis­con­sin-based man­u­fac­tur­ing site

Mer­ck KGaA’s Mil­li­pore­Sig­ma is again ex­pand­ing its fa­cil­i­ties near Wis­con­sin’s cap­i­tal, now with the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment con­tract in tow.

The com­pa­ny kicked off the ex­pan­sion at its She­boy­gan lo­ca­tion as the com­pa­ny is build­ing its first lat­er­al flow mem­brane pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ty in the US. Lat­er­al flow mem­branes are a key com­po­nent in rapid di­ag­nos­tic test kits for a va­ri­ety of ap­pli­ca­tions, in­clud­ing Covid-19 test­ing. Ac­cord­ing to the com­pa­ny, the new fa­cil­i­ty is sup­port­ed by a $136.7 mil­lion con­tract award­ed to Mil­li­pore­Sig­ma from the DOD on be­half of HHS.

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