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Certified Public Accounting | Business Advisory arbcpa.com 207.772.1981 Let's Talk arbcpa.com/manufacturing/ 1 Additional 1,000 military personnel, according to Military One Source, U.S. Department of Defense 2 Primary location is 64 acres 3 Year Bath Iron Works founded; parent company, General Dynamics, was founded in 1952. 4 Succeeded Stephen Smith in spring 2026 5 Succeeded Jay Mazelsky in spring 2026; Mazelsky will continue as executive board chair, until his retirement in May 2027. 6 Figure reported to Mainebiz for Q3 2025 story 7 Year SD Warren founded; parent company, Sappi, was founded in 1936. 8 For Skowhegan, does not include Norway facility N OT E S : Unable to confirm data by press time for RTX Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Baileyville's Woodland Pulp LLC, Foxcroft's Pleasant River Lumber Co. Inc., Perrier Group & Poland Spring, Biddeford's Tex Tech Industries Inc. or Scarborough's Abbott. N/A = not available. See the full list of more than 100 manufacturers at mainebiz.biz/data/mftr-maine/. S O U R C E : Each manufacturer via survey, Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information, company 10-K filings and websites. Manufacturers in Maine Ranked by number of Maine employees, then production square footage Manufacturer Maine employees/ square footage of Maine production facilities Products and services Head(s) of company Year founded 1 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard 2 Wentworth St., Kittery 03904 438-1000 • navsea.navy.mil/home/shipyards/ portsmouth 8,000 1 N/A Shipbuilding repair & maintenance and U.S. Navy base Jesse Nice shipyard commander 1800 2 Bath Iron Works, General Dynamics 700 Washington St., Bath 04530 443-3311 • gdbiw.com 6,850 -- 2 Shipbuilding and support of ships in fleet; Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS Destroyer and Zumwalt Class Destroyer for the U.S. Navy Charles F. Krugh president 1884 3 3 L.L.Bean 15 Casco St., Freeport 04033 800-832-1889 • llbean.com 3,463 246,500 Iconic outdoor lifestyle brand and multichannel retailer of outdoor-lifestyle apparel and footwear Greg Elder 4 CEO 1912 4 IDEXX Laboratories Inc. 1 IDEXX Drive, Westbrook 04092 556-0300 • idexx.com 3,100 N/A Biotechnology diagnostics and research Michael Erickson 5 president & CEO 1983 5 The Jackson Laboratory 600 Main St., Bar Harbor 04609 288-6000 • jax.org 1,700 N/A Biomedical research to discover precise genomic solutions for disease Lon Cardon president & CEO 1929 6 Hammond Lumber Co. 2 Hammond Drive, Belgrade 04917 495-3303 • hammondlumber.com 1,200 N/A Building materials retailer with window & door showrooms, design centers for kitchen & bath and home planning; manufacturer of eastern white pine Mike Hammond president & CEO 1953 7 SD Warren (Sappi Fine Paper) 89 Cumberland St., Westbrook 04092 856-4205 • warrenreleasepapers.sappi.com 1,180 6 N/A Paper mills Kirk Ross president & CEO, Sappi North America Blue Keim managing director 1854 7 8 Hancock Lumber 1267 Poland Spring Road, Casco 04015 627-4201 • hancocklumber.com 664 N/A Pine manufacturer and building materials supplier Paul Wainman president & CEO Kevin Hancock chairman & managing owner 1848 9 New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc. 17 Walnut St., Skowhegan 04976 474-6231 • newbalance.com 600 6 120,000 8 Design, manufacture and sales of athletic footwear and apparel Joe Preston president & CEO 1906 10 Puritan Medical Products Co. 31 School St., P.O. Box 149, Guilford 04443 876-3311 • puritanmedproducts.com 456 275,000 Swabs and single-use specimen collection devices for healthcare, diagnostics, forensics, controlled environments and environmental sciences Robert Shultz president & CFO 1919 11 Hussey Seating Co. 38 Dyer St. Extention, North Berwick 03906 676-2271 • husseyseating.com 325 225,000 Manufacturer of spectator seating solutions for sports and entertainment, education and performing arts markets Brian Deveaux president & CEO 1835 12 Stonewall Kitchen 2 Stonewall Lane, York 03909 351-2712 • stonewallkitchen.com 317 33,000 Jams, jellies and more Don Kerrigan CEO 1991 13 Enercon Technologies 25 Northbrook Drive, Gray 04039 657-7000 • enercontechnologies.com 300 110,000 Design, engineering and manufacturing partner for medical, industrial and defense markets Farouq Tuweiq president & CEO, Bel Fuse Inc. Ryan Marcotte president & CEO, Enercon Technologies 1980 SOURCE: Each manufacturer via survey, Maine Center for Workforce Research and Information, company 10-K filings and websites. Notes: Unable to confirm data by press time for RTX Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, Baileyville's Woodland Pulp LLC, Foxcroft's Pleasant River Lumber Co. Inc., Perrier Group & Poland Spring, Biddeford's Tex Tech Industries Inc. or Scarborough's Abbott. N/A = not available. See the full list of more than 100 manufacturers at mainebiz.biz/data/mftr-maine/. 1 Additional 1,000 military personnel, according to Military One Source, U.S. Department of Defense 2 Primary location is 64 acres 3 Year Bath Iron Works founded; parent company, General Dynamics, was founded in 1952. 4 Succeeded Stephen Smith in spring 2026 5 Succeeded Jay Mazelsky in spring 2026; Mazelsky will continue as executive board chair, until his retirement in May 2027. 6 Figure reported to Mainebiz for Q3 2025 story 7 Year SD Warren founded; parent company, Sappi, was founded in 1936. 8 For Skowhegan, does not include Norway facility - This list was compiled by Stephanie R. Meagher and published in the Oct. 19, 2026, issue of Mainebiz. Manufacturers in Maine Ranked by number of Maine employees, then production square footage See full versions of lists with company profiles at mainebiz.biz/datacenter @