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Shawmut’s Health & Safety business unit debuts its US-made Protex™ N95 mask and non-surgical isolation gowns at world’s largest safety trade show.
NIOSH-approved US-Made Protex™ N95 particulate respirator designed for all-day-comfort and fit now available in nonprofit Project N95 Shop
New luxury, environmentally-friendly automotive interior fabric offers the aesthetic of suede with the ease of a knit fabric
Updates include newly constructed customer experience wing for greater on-site collaboration; landfill-free facility furthers Shawmut’s commitment to a more sustainable future
Initiative Will Focus on Developing High-Performance, US-Made, Technical Fabric Applications for Extreme Environments
West Bridgewater, Mass., May 4, 2021 – Dentists Across the Commonwealth Can Efficiently Order Masks and Gowns Directly Through Shawmut At Discount
(Fortune) – If you remember the dire shortage of PPE that confronted U.S. health care workers in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, you might wonder what happened to that massive supply of American-made masks and gowns.
(Industry Week) – The timeline of Shawmut Corp. begins in 1916 with the acquisition of a woolen mill. The family-owned manufacturing company, headquartered in West Bridgewater, Mass., and with locations worldwide, has been working with textiles ever since.
(WCVB-ABC 5 Boston) – The historic company is on the frontline of the pandemic, but it has not always been that way.
(Boston Globe) – Shawmut has hired 100 people in West Bridgewater and plans to add another 250 within a year
(Enterprise News) At 95 years of age, Justin Wyner, chairman of the board at West Bridgewater’s Shawmut Corporation, has seen a lot of change in his 105-year-old manufacturing company
(Boston Business Journal) – Local domestic production of PPE is getting a significant boost, with new manufacturing site in Massachusetts that will become capable of generating 10 million masks per month by the end of the year.
Mass. Governor Baker, Lt. Governor Polito visit new MA-based manufacturing site where N95 mask production is expected to top 10MM per month
(CBS Boston) – The Shawmut Corporation has switched direction and will begin producing 10,000 N-95 masks per day.
Initiative Includes Expansion of West Bridgewater Manufacturing Facility, Strategic New Hires, and Investment in State-of-the-Art Equipment to Support PPE Needs
The (Supply Chain Matters) blog highlights another example of joint business collaboration, and how a commercial real estate development firm and a legacy local manufacturer are addressing the need for domestic U.S. based production of N95 surgical respirator masks.
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Fallon Company and Shawmut Corporation today announced the creation of a new domestic manufacturing operation to produce N95 respirators.
(CBS) – The Baker administration announced it’s investing millions in making PPE in Massachusetts. The state is handing out more than $6 million in grants. One of the biggest grants will go to a West Bridgewater company, run by the same family for more than 100 years.
BOSTON – The Baker-Polito Administration has awarded over $6.5 Million to 13
Massachusetts organizations to develop new products to assist in the response to the
COVID-19 public health emergency.
(CBS Boston) – For more than 100 years, Shawmut Corporation has manufactured materials for car parts and performance wear. But the West Bridgewater factory is now shifting gears.
(Boston Business Journal) – During both World Wars, the Korean War and Desert Storm, West Bridgewater manufacturer Shawmut Corp. provided supplies for the war efforts.
Shawmut Corporation
Global Headquarters
208 Manley Street
West Bridgewater, MA 02379
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U.S. Locations
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Port Huron, Michigan
Plymouth, Michigan
Middletown, New York
Clinton, Tennessee
Lugoff, South Carolina
Burlington, North Carolina
Laguna Beach, California
Global Locations
Tijuana, Mexico
Silao, Mexico
Krupka, Czech Republic
Nagoya, Japan
Suzhou, China
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