ANNAPOLIS, MD—Governor Larry Hogan today celebrated the grand opening of Ellume’s first U.S.-based manufacturing facility in Frederick County. The investment by Ellume, an Australia-based digital diagnostics company whose COVID-19 home test was the first to receive an Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA, is the result of the connections and partnerships built during the governor’s 2019 infrastructure summit and trade mission to Australia.
“Maryland is open for business and we are seeing further proof of that here today as Ellume, a respected global digital diagnostics company, opens its very first U.S.-based manufacturing facility right here in Frederick County,” said Governor Hogan. “I want to congratulate the entire team at Ellume, and I want to thank you for choosing to invest in our state and for helping to build on the already strong friendship, or mateship, between our two great nations.”
Once fully operational, the fully-modernized 180,000 square foot facility will have the capability of producing 15 million COVID-19 at-home tests per month. Ellume is creating 200 new Maryland jobs this year and expects to create 1,500 Maryland jobs once operating at full capacity.
Ellume chose Frederick County as the location for its first U.S.-based facility because Maryland is home to the FDA and world class research centers, has one of the top biohealth clusters in America, and has the most educated workforce in America.
“Maryland is open for business and we are seeing further proof of that here today as Ellume, a respected global digital diagnostics company, opens its very first U.S.-based manufacturing facility right here in Frederick County,” said Governor Hogan. “I want to congratulate the entire team at Ellume, and I want to thank you for choosing to invest in our state and for helping to build on the already strong friendship, or mateship, between our two great nations.”
Once fully operational, the fully-modernized 180,000 square foot facility will have the capability of producing 15 million COVID-19 at-home tests per month. Ellume is creating 200 new Maryland jobs this year and expects to create 1,500 Maryland jobs once operating at full capacity.
Ellume chose Frederick County as the location for its first U.S.-based facility because Maryland is home to the FDA and world class research centers, has one of the top biohealth clusters in America, and has the most educated workforce in America.
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