ELBRIDGE, N.Y. -- Tessy Plastics in Elbridge is making components for a coronavirus test that President Trump called “a whole new ballgame” because it delivers results in as little as five minutes.

Tessy President Roland Beck confirmed Wednesday that the company makes plastic parts for Abbott Laboratories’ coronavirus test, which received emergency use authorization Friday from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Trump held up one of Abbott’s testing devices at a press conference at the White House on Monday and praised the Chicago-based company for developing it and the FDA for quickly approving it.

“That’s a whole new ballgame,” he said of the test.

Abbott said it is ramping up production to deliver 50,000 of the tests a day starting this week.

The tests can produce positive results in as little as five minutes and negative results in 13 minutes, according to Abbott. The tests are portable, so they can be used and provide results in doctors’ offices, hospitals, urgent care centers and anywhere else a patient is tested.

Beck said Tessy has been a long-time customer of Abbott’s, providing plastic parts for a test used to detect the flu. Abbott has modified that same test to detect the novel coronavirus and has increased its orders for parts from Tessy, he said.

The test kit components are not the only parts that Tessy makes in the fight against the coronavirus. Beck said the company will make 30,000 face shields ordered by Onondaga County to protect healthcare workers.

Tessy employs 1,000 people in Elbridge, Skaneateles and Van Buren, making it one of Onondaga County’s largest manufacturers. About half of the plastic parts it makes go into medical devices. The other half goes into consumer products such as underarm deodorant containers.

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