The employees at a plant in Pittsfield, Maine, will be furloughed until Aug. 2, a spokesperson for the company told the publication.
The federal government invested about $400 million into Puritan Medical Products to scale up production of testing swabs for COVID-19 tests. The Pittsfield plant is one of two the company opened last year with federal funding, the Bangor Daily News reported.
When the pandemic began, Puritan was the only American company producing the swabs needed for COVID-19 tests, according to the publication.
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