On Sept. 10, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $35.8 million contract to Mettler-Toledo Rainin to increase domestic production capacity of pipette tips for both manual and automated laboratory procedures.

The Rainin pipette tips are an essential consumable for both COVID-19 research and testing of collected samples and other critical diagnostic activities. This industrial base expansion effort will allow Rainin to increase production capacity of pipette tips by 70 million tips per month by January 2023.