Profiling 3M A Science-Based Company

Without the 3M inventions and the company's continuing advancements spanning across many industrial sectors, societies would be unhealthier, unsafer and less productive for sure. Yet despite the complexities around the manufacturing processes and the eco-unfriendliness of product 3M is continually acknowledged for being one of the world's most ethical companies.

We know that the manufacturing of commodity plastics is an industry under intense scrutiny. That aside, 3M is a Science based, technology giant that can demonstrate how the technological world has thrived on their own advancements in polymer processing. It's a dilemma, the throwaway culture that has evolved, however, read the list below, as our world sees 3M innovation just about everywhere. 

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What’s to know about the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company? Well, apart from the fact it is now known as 3M, there’s so much more. For a start, 3M helped with space exploration and whose invention helped get a stricken Apollo mission back to earth safely.

1960 Mercury Era Spacesuit manufactured by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

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3M is an American Worldwide Enterprise Multi-Industry company which manufactures products for Business and for the Consumer. Not bad going for something that was originally a small-scale mining venture, established in 1902, by five founders

3M is fundamentally a Science-based company and a global diversified technology giant of a corporate business. 3M’s many technology platforms touch almost every aspect of modern life. Nowadays, the majority of 3M products across the majority of those platforms rely on polymer processing

3M has been creating innovative products which cater for a wide variety of end markets

3M employee Richard Gurley Drew invented masking tape in the laboratory, 1923, and went on to develop a transparent tape based on cellophane, called Scotch Tape. Office supplies, home improvement and household products produced by 3M includes many types of adhesive tapes and abrasives

3M Construction: include construction related products such as special films for better insulation, lighting equipment, roofing materials and air filters



3M Electronics – the company has applied its expertise in RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to deliver biometric passports, and offer many other innovative identity management solutions. 3M also manufactures components for touch-based systems and the company unveiled its first, most vivid and responsive Multi-touch display(s) in 2016.

3M Energy – has a broad spectrum of products and technologies available spanning the energy industry

3M Healthcare industry – provides hospitals with infection prevention and detection solutions. 3M manufactures occupational health equipment and drug delivery systems

3M Safety – manufacturing products such as environmental safety equipment, high-performance coatings, and industrial microbiology products re: food safety, etc Also highway and traffic safety equipment various road markers, reflective signage etc.



3M Automotive – automobile abrasives, paints, adhesives, sealants, car cleaning products, functional and decorative/functional graphics, bodyshop solutions.

3M Telecommunications – offers equipment, connectons etc. for the telecommunications industry

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