3M Sues Over Another Company’s Marked-Up Offer to New York City of N95 Masks

N95 masks wait for deployment at the Anne Arundel County Fire Department supply depot in Glen Burnie, Md., on April 9, 2020. Alex Edelman/AFP /via Getty Images

3M, the largest maker of N95 PPE masks in the country, has sued another company for offering to sell New York City overpriced N95 masks for $45 million.

3M claims the company, New Jersey-based Performance Supply, wasn’t authorized to distribute the masks and had attempted to inflate their price by more than 500 percent in New York.