Private company
Hardy Diagnostics
American health care company
Hardy Diagnostics is an American company that manufactures and sells bacteriological culture media, reagents, automated microscope slide staining machines, and rapid identification kits for microbiological testing in clinical, research, and industrial laboratories. The company's culture media is useful in the detection of bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli, Tuberculosis, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Legionella, and others.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
- HeadquartersSanta Maria1
- Websitewww.HardyDiagnostics.com
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Hardy Diagnostics is an American company that manufactures and sells bacteriological culture media, reagents, automated microscope slide staining machines, and rapid identification kits for microbiological testing in clinical, research, and industrial laboratories. The company's culture media is useful in the detection of bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli, Tuberculosis, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Legionella, and others. Founded by Jay Hardy in 1980 and headquartered in Santa Maria, California, Hardy Diagnostics is the third-largest manufacturer of culture media in the United States, manufacturing more than 2,700 different media products. Hardy Diagnostics was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. In August 2011 Hardy Diagnostics was chosen as "Business of the Year" by the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce. The company has three manufacturing facilities, headquartered in Santa Maria, California. A second media manufacturing facility is located in Springboro, Ohio. In January 2016, the company acquired a Wichita Falls, Texas manufacturer of automatic microscope slide stainers and dubbed the new division QuickSlide.2
Products and brands
- growth medium
Listed on Wikidata.1
Hardy Diagnostics is the only culture media manufacturer with 'bi-coastal' production. The company has two culture media manufacturing facilities, headquartered in Santa Maria, California, and its second manufacturing facility is located in Springboro, Ohio. Hardy Diagnostics invested over two million dollars in its clean room facilities in Ohio, which are slightly larger than the manufacturing facility in California. The company operates a third manufacturing facility for its QuickSlide division in Wichita Falls, Texas. There are also ten distribution centers in California, Washington, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, New York, Utah, and Iowa.
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo professors created a COVID-19 test that uses a mouth strip for saliva collection, as opposed to a nasal swab. Hardy Diagnostics will be distributing these tests on the market.
From Wikipedia’s article on Hardy Diagnostics, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3
Funding
Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.
- PPP loans $4.3M
Figures by year
| Year | PPP loans | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $4.3M | $4.3M |
PPP loans
Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA4. Matched to this company by name and state.
- Apr 15, 2020$4.3M PPP loan (first draw) from U.S. Bank, National Association4To HARDY DIAGNOSTICS, Santa Maria CA; $4.3M forgiven Jul 1, 2021
Links
- Websitewww.HardyDiagnostics.com1
- WikipediaHardy Diagnostics
- WikidataQ5656564
Sources
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- 1WikidataHardy Diagnostics on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaHardy Diagnostics on Wikipedia
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