CT Hemp Company 'Revamps' To Make Hand Sanitizer For Responders

NORTH CENTRAL, CT — A regional hemp products company has revamped its production facilities as a response to the coronavirus pandemic and is making hand sanitizer to distribute to area first-responders.

Harbor Hemp Company representatives were on-hand at Vernon police headquarters Tuesday morning to drop off several cases of sanitizer in spray bottles and 8 gallons worth of refills. Stops were also made at the state police Troop C barracks in Tolland and the North Coventry Fire Department.

Coventry-based Harbor Hemp is owned by two brothers — Glen Boggini, a Tolland resident, and David Boggini, who lives in Glastonbury. In all, each department received 100 travel size bottles in addition to the gallon-sized refill jugs. The Bogginis said Harbor Hemp "has shifted its manufacturing to produce hand sanitizer for our community," and area health care professionals are getting some in addition to the first-responders.

Harbor Hemp at Troop C Tuesday (Sarah Archambault)

Harbor Hemp is also shipping free hand sanitizer to customers with all April orders. It is the first CBD company in Connecticut to be making hand sanitizer and distributing it to those in need ... "as far as we know," the brothers said.

Harbor Hemp specializes in crafting small batch, natural hemp products and is one of Connecticut's first licensed CBD manufacturers with a current Good Manufacturing Process certification. Harbor Hemp is a division of the Charles Boggini Company, a leading beverage industry manufacturer with more than 80 years experience sourcing oils and plant extracts.

Harbor Hemp Sanitizer (Chris Dehnel/Patch)

There is no hemp in the sanitizer, but it's still potent with 65 percent ethyl alcohol.

"As a family-owned wellness brand, we wanted to manufacture hand sanitizer for our important first-responders here in Connecticut and beyond," Glen Boggini said. "We think that it's important to keep them safe while they are out on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis."