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July 1, 2020

Manchester's Lydall wins $13.5M defense contract for mask production

By Sean Teehan

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $13.5 million contract to Manchester-based filtration-thermal/acoustics-sealing products maker Lydall Inc. to help make billions of N95 and surgical masks.

Under the contract, Lydall will install two new production lines at its New Hampshire facility, which will increase its capacity to make filtration materials used in personal protective equipment (PPE), including filtration material for 1.7 billion N95 masks and 6.5 billion cloth surgical masks per year, according to Lydall.

"As with the equipment the U.S. military provides our soldiers, our face masks, and the filtration media inside, must be highly engineered, backed by science and adhere to the rigorous standards," Lydall President and CEO Sara A. Greenstein said.

Lydall has increased its capacity of meltblown filtration media to support the monthly domestic production of 140 million N95 respirators or 540 million surgical masks, and of high-performing air filtration media, according to Lydall.

The contract comes about a month after Lydall told shareholders in a quarterly earnings call that the company slowed production at three of its global manufacturing plants, and had posted a $56.4-million loss in 2020's first quarter.

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