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Maine Manufacturing provides core specialty paper converting services that meet the needs of life science, medical and diagnostics companies around the world. Our roots go back to centuries of handling fibrous materials.  We will help you specify and qualify the appropriate base paper or glass media, and source roll-stock world-wide.

• Media selection and qualification
• Establishment of media specification
• Roll stock sheeting
• Guillotine cutting
• Die-cutting of all sizes and shapes
• Slitting
• Ongoing verification and quality testing of final product

Along with those services our experienced engineers and scientists can utilize current value-added processes at Maine Manufacturing or partner with you to develop new processes which will enable you to maintain a competitive advantage over your competition. Further complementing these services, we are also able to provide efficient and cost-effective secondary value-added treatments.


• High temperature annealing
• Chemical or water washing
• Coating and impregnating of chemical or biological materials

Beyond simply processing customers’ paper or glass fiber product needs, we provide a wide range of testing and validation/qualification to ensure the upmost in quality, reproducibility and uniformity of your end product.  Our testing capabilities include:

• Thickness
• Grammage
• Porosity
• Basis weight testing and analysis
• Air and liquid flow testing
• Tensile strength
• Wicking, Capilary Rise and Klemm testing
• Dirt loading capacity
• Particle retention
• Ignition strength, Residue and Ash Content
Maine Manufacturing’s specialty papers are commonly used in a wide range of applications in the life science diagnostic and medical fields.  Supplying paper and glass media, converting, treating  and testing it is only part of the value-add Maine Manufacturing provides our customers.  With experienced and knowledgeable scientists and engineers we can help with your development needs by utilizing our strong applications knowledge.

• Flow-through  and lateral flow diagnostics                

• Sample collection and storage
• Electrophoresis blotting and wicking
• Wide range of general filtration techniques
• Air particle testing
• Suspended solids analysis and testing
• Seed testing
• Soil analysis
• Medical device gaskets and separators
• Ignition strength for cigarettes