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Puritan is an American company known worldwide as the most trusted manufacturer of healthcare, critical environment, and medical products since 1919. This fact has resulted in an ever-expanding line of medical products that takes advantage of the most up-to-date materials and manufacturing processes to deliver innovative solutions for even the most demanding applications.

Family Business History

In 1919, the Templet family of Guilford founded Minto Toothpick Company to, as its name implies, manufacture mint-flavored toothpicks. The company soon changed its name to Hardwood Products Company as its line expanded to include other items like ice cream spoons and sporkettes. When tongue depressors and cotton-tipped applicators were added, the Puritan line emerged and eventually became its own LLC in 2001. Now under the stewardship of the founder's grandson, Timothy Templet, Puritan is a highly-respected FDA registered medical device manufacturer of single-use devices for specimen collection and transport, addressing the needs of specialists, researchers and inventors in patient care, diagnostics, forensics, veterinary, industrial, environmental and high-tech applications. A large business in a small town in the Central Highlands of Maine employing 250+, Puritan is recognized worldwide for its innovation and dedication to high quality. Yet, Puritan is very much a home town business, supporting the communities in Southern Piscataquis County. From awarding scholarships to graduating seniors to providing technical and professional educational benefits to employees in cooperation with Eastern Maine Community College, this company returns profits to the people who make them possible. The Templet family carries forward the heritage of pride in every aspect of the Puritan operation. Now, a member of the fourth generation of the Templet family, the company’s director of marketing, inspires with her new ideas that will carry Puritan into a 2nd century of excellence. Puritan’s family and its employees take great pride in delivering their innovative “Made in Maine" products to the world. The DM Wound Measuring Device for long term care and the Popule for topical solutions are developments of Puritan. Puritan's patented UltraFlock and HydraFlock devices for microbiology are distributed around the world. The recent expansion into microbiological specimen transport media now includes DNA/RNA PurSafe for molecular specimen transport, important for research and emerging diagnostic technologies. Puritan works directly with the CDC in the development of specimen collection devices; two have been accepted for commercial use—one adopted by the Department of Homeland Security for the detection of anthrax and one for public health use in the detection of norovirus.