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Explore 3M's core technologies to see how our ideas live on, in connection with others, to help solve problems around the world.

Technologies in Periodic Table.
  • Materials

    • 3M Abrasive Technologies (Ab).

      Abrasives

      • 3M began as an abrasives manufacturer. For more than a century, we have refined our original technologies and complemented them with breakthrough inventions impacting multiple 3M businesses. Today, our abrasives rely on traditional strengths such as resin formulation, treated backings and web coating, as well as the most modern technologies including microreplicated composites, conformable nonwoven materials, printed super abrasives and precision shaped ceramic grains. The result is a comprehensive range of abrasives that cut, grind, shape, finish, and polish with ease and precision.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Cubitron™ 3 Cut-Off Wheel, 3M™ Trizact™ Abrasives, 3M™ High Performance Abrasives

    • 3M Abrasives Technologies (Ad).

      Adhesives

      • So strong they can hold a structural panel for the life of a building or an airplane... so gentle they can be applied to the skin of a child with painless removal.  Because 3M adhesives have been engineered to fit our customers' needs, they are used in such diverse products from skyscrapers to mobile phones, automobiles to medical devices and tapes.  We excel in curable and structure adhesives. And, of course, pressure-sensitive tapes, which 3M invented more than 90 years ago.

        Featured Products: Post-it® Recycled Super Sticky Note, Command™ Brand, 3M Bandages & Dressings for Consumer

    • 3M Ceramics Technologies (Ce).

      Ceramics

      • 3M began with Ceramic Materials, converting minerals into sandpaper.  Over more than a century, we have forged inorganic ceramic materials into a wide range of products serving disparate markets.  Ceramic materials provide critical physical, thermal, and optical properties to our products. Ceramics provide the hardness required in an abrasive grain.  The thermal and electrical properties of ceramics are leveraged into applications from automotive to the electrical grid.  Ceramics also provide critical optical performance in products ranging from pavement markings to optical films.  3M has a storied history in developing and applying ceramic materials and the future will be enabled by continued advances in ceramic materials.

        Featured Products: 3M™ ACCR High-Capacity Transmission Conductor, 3M™ Glass Bubbles, Roofing Granules

    • 3M Circular Materials Technologies (Cm).

      Circular Materials

      • 3M is advancing the circular economy ecosystem through material and process innovations.  From using recycled materials in new ways for both our innovative products and packaging to providing materials understanding that enables materials efficiencies like “thinnovation”, our materials science is making a difference. Our Circular Materials extend product lifetimes, enable repair and disassembly, inform and reinforce advanced recycling processes, and optimize byproduct reuse. Applications range from reimagining materials in everyday items like office supplies, home cleaning, and clothing to creating high tech solutions for manufacturing, construction, electronics, and transportation.

        Featured Products: Scotch™ Cushion Lock Protective Wrap, 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Adhesive, 3M™ Padded Automatable Curbside Recyclable (PACR) Mailer Material

    • 3M Advanced Composites Technologies (Co).

      Advanced Composites

      • By infiltrating dense arrangements of ceramic fibers or particles with aluminum alloy, 3M creates composite materials and articles that combine extraordinary strength and stiffness with light weight. 3M’s first commercial application for this technology is a high-strength overhead electrical conductor that can carry more than twice the power of conventional lines of the same size enabling reconductoring with existing infrastructure. Additional work continues on products and components for other uses, including structural and mechanical applications. The advantages of this material are magnified when the component is subjected to high acceleration loads that magnify the weight savings. In addition, 3M™ Nextel™ Ceramic Fibers reinforce an oxide ceramic matrix and enable the production of high-temperature, thermal shock, and oxidation resistant Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC). These CMCs can replace metals and improve efficiency in applications such as aerospace engines, supersonic and hyper-sonic aircraft, space vehicles, heat exchangers and industrial gas turbines.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Advanced Metal Matrix Composite, Nextel™ Fibers and Woven Fabrics

    • 3M Electronic Materials Technologies (Em).

      Electronic Materials

      • Advances in electronic components―from semiconductor devices to optical and copper interconnects to absorbers to improve signal to noise for high-speed devices—often come from advances in processing.  3M contributes to improved yield in semiconductor wafers with our CMP solutions, improved reliability in signal transfer with our TwinAx copper interconnect assemblies, increased 5G signal to noise from our PIM mitigation solutions and hybrid mm-wave absorbers, and significantly reduced fiber optic installation time with our Expanded Beam Optical connectors.

        Featured Products: 3M EMI Shielding Tape, 3M Interconnection Products, 3M Semiconductor Solutions

    • 3M Films Technologies (Fi).

      Films

      • From one to hundreds of layers, 3M engineered films are used to enhance and protect electronic displays, increase energy efficiency, provide graphics inside and outside of buildings, vehicles, and traffic signage, as well as provide the basis of a variety of tapes for the office and industrial assembly. 3M films are fundamental to a significant portion of products in every business group. By understanding and manipulating the materials and processes and the complex interactions between them, 3M has created a broad spectrum of highly differentiated film-based products.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Diamond Grade™ Reflective Sheeting, 3M™ Scotchgard Paint Protection Film, 3M™ Automotive Window Film Obsidian Series

    • 3M Metamaterials Technologies (Mm).

      Metamaterials

      • Metamaterials represent a new approach to controlling and manipulating energy and mechanics. They are engineered composite materials that possess properties not typically found in bulk natural materials. Our multilayer optical film portfolio was a commercialized metamaterial long before the term existed. Now, we’re taking our technology even further. A subset of metamaterials, optical metamaterials are two-dimensional arrays of subwavelength scatterers called “meta-atoms”. By controlling the size and orientation of these individual features, you can engineer the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light. 3M is developing processes to enable novel optical functionality to deliver improved performance across a variety of optical applications including displays and optical sensors. Another subset of metamaterials are mechanical metamaterials, which are a type of engineered materials that derive their mechanical properties from artificial structures rather than solely on their composition. These structures enable unique and nonintuitive properties and applications. 3M continues to push the boundaries of mechanical metamaterials with design, scale, and process capabilities. The new technology development generates opportunities extending to high growth spaces such as sustainable packaging, electronics, high-performance abrasives, and climate tech for 3M.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Enhanced Specular Reflector Film, 3M™ Ultra Clear Solar F​ilm, Scotch™ Cushion Lock Protective Wrap

    • 3M Nanotechnology Technologies (Nt).

      Nanotechnology

      • 3M scientists and researchers are exploring a new world at the nanometer level, where materials exhibit unique physical and chemical properties. These unusual properties are being exploited in our hard coatings, abrasives, multi-layer, and brightness-enhancing optical films.  Many 3M technology platforms, including adhesives, metamaterials, advanced composites, ceramics, films, and electronic materials are being enhanced by leveraging nano-scale material features.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Brightness Enhancement Films (PDF, 644 KB), 3M™ CMP Materials

    • 3M Nonwovens Technologies (Nw).

      Nonwovens

      • After seventy-five years of exploring uses for nonwoven materials, 3M is still finding new ways to refine and apply them. In industrial settings, respirators help protect employee health. In homes, HVAC filters help remove particulates from the air. In workshops, abrasives improve product finish and performance. In consumer health care, medical tapes improve comfort for consumers. In automotive, insulators make cars quieter and more efficient. Thanks to 3M's expertise in advanced materials and sophisticated manufacturing technologies, new nonwoven materials are being developed for use in transportation, filtration, industrial, and consumer products.

        Featured Products: Filtrete™ Filters, 3M™ Performance Particulate Respirator, 3M™ Thinsulate™ Acoustic Insulation

    • 3M Performance Materials Technologies (Pm).

      Performance Materials

    • 3M Polymer Science Technologies (Ps).

      Polymer Science

      • Polymer Science involves the deep understanding of structure-property relationships in polymeric materials as well as the ability to produce polymeric materials with desired end-use properties.  Included in Polymer Science is monomer and polymer synthesis as well as the study of polymer rheology and advanced polymer characterization.  Polymer Science includes the production of custom polymer blends and engineered polymer formulations designed to meet specific performance requirements.  Polymer Science also involves the optimization of thermal transitions and polymer rheology for specific production processes and end-use applications.  Polymer Science is the foundation upon which materials are developed for processes including roll-to-roll coating, extrusion, and molding.  Core capabilities in Polymer Science include polymer synthesis, polymer formulation, surface modification, rheology, and molecular and physical characterization.  Polymer Science is central to the production of films, fibers, coatings, and molded articles.  Polymer Science enables 3M technology and product platforms including optical, window, graphic and protective films, filtration media, as well as molded components ranging from Command™ Hooks to optical connectors.

        Featured Products: Expanded Beam Optical Interconnect, 3M Aura™ Particulate Respirators 9200+ Series, Scotchgard™ Paint Protection Film Pro Series 200

    • 3M Release Materials Technologies (Rm).

      Release Materials

    • 3M Specialty Materials (SM).

      Specialty Materials

      • Specialty Materials is focused on the discovery, development and production of high-value, custom chemicals and specialty polymers.  These Specialty Materials are critical components that enable new process capabilities and complex product constructions.  Specialty Materials leverages target-oriented synthesis to produce these high-value materials.  This Specialty Materials capability fills gaps in existing commercial supplies of chemicals.  Specialty Materials are materials with unique, value-added attributes including optical, electrical, dielectric, surface energy and physical properties.  Specialty Materials includes process aids, rheology modifiers, adhesion promoters, specialty monomers and polymers and surface-modified nanoparticle fillers.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Ultra Barrier Solar Film, Command™ Brand, 3M™ Dual Brightness Enhancement Films

    • 3M Additive Manufacturing Technologies (Am).

      Additive Manufacturing

      • With Additive Manufacturing, 3M is defining the shape of things to come. Using its expertise in materials science, processing, and design, 3M is taking this technology to the next level to create novel solutions. Through rapid iteration and complex geometries beyond what's conventionally possible, 3M is offering endless opportunities for our customers across industries: reducing development timelines, optimizing manufacturing methods, and enabling new-to-the-world products. At 3M, we are pioneering advanced tooling processes, creating innovative business models, and addressing key customer challenges to bring value to the market.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Precision Structured Vitrified CBN Grinding Wheels, 3M™ Expanded Beam Optical Interconnect, Accuspray™ ONE Spray Gun System with PPS™

    • 3M Chemical Processing Technologies (Ch).

      Chemical Processing

      • 3M has long been known as a materials science company that manufactures innovative products. Underpinning these products is a diverse set of proprietary materials, such as adhesives, that provide the differentiated performance that our customers value. 3M has a core competency in the Chemical Processing techniques that create these diverse proprietary materials which have been incorporated into our innovative products.

        Featured Products: Command™ Brand, 3M™ VHB™ Tapes, 3M™ Dual Brightness Enhancement Film (DBEF)

    • 3M Molding Technologies (Mo).

      Molding

      • At 3M, we use molding to create complex and customized components in thermoplastic and thermosetting materials using advanced technologies that deliver high-performance solutions to our customers. Driven by the tight tolerances demanded by these applications, 3M has developed unique expertise in tool design, precision machining, metrology, and mold processing. The result is a diverse blend of products that include 3M’s personal protective equipment, material dispensers for automotive aftermarket paint application solutions, and precision optical components for electronics.

        Featured Products: Accuspray™ ONE Spray Gun System with PPS™, 3M™ Half Mask Respirators for Personal Safety, 3M™ Expanded Beam Optical Interconnect

    • 3M Microreplication Technologies (Mr).

      Microreplication

      • 3M has pioneered the use of tiny, precisely shaped structures to give materials novel physical, chemical, or optical properties, helping create and differentiated products to solve customer problems. Microreplicated prisms are used in road signs and electronic displays to capture and reflect light more brilliantly. Microreplicated microlouvers protect display privacy. Fine triangular microreplicated ceramic particles make 3M’s coated, bonded, and nonwoven abrasives cut faster and longer. And microreplicated adhesives enable graphic films to be applied more easily without trapping air bubbles.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Controltac™ Graphic Film With Comply™ Adhesive IJ180Cv3, Precision Shaped Abrasive Grains, 3M™ Diamond Grade™ DG³ Reflective Sheeting

    • 3M Precision Coating & Web Processes Technologies (Pc).

      Precision Coating & Web Processes

      • Precision Coating and Web Processing encompasses the integration of multiple disciplines into one overall pilot/manufacturing process. Advancements in coating, drying, curing, and web handling, along with the integration of other technology platforms create unique, high-value manufacturing capabilities that provide 3M competitive advantage. 3M engineers are developing, designing, and building production equipment that combines finely controlled processes with the economic efficiencies of high volume and continuous roll-to-roll manufacturing.

        Featured Products: Command™ Brand, 3M™ Sun Control Window Film Prestige Serie​s, Scotch-Brite® Stay Fresh Scrub Dots Non-Scratch Sponges

    • 3M Particle & Dispersion Processes Technologies (Pd).

      Particle & Dispersion Processes

      • 3M’s ability to create, modify, and disperse particles―in liquids, coatings, films, adhesive, and composites - allows it to give unique characteristics to its abrasives, dental restoratives, inks, window and optical films, carbon fiber reinforced composites, and a host of other products. Our understanding of physical, thermal, chemical, and interfacial interactions allows us to incorporate precisely distributed microparticles and nanoparticles - such as glass beads, glass bubbles, ceramics, and carbon – to tune a material’s strength, refractive index, conductivity, IR absorption, catalytic activity, and other characteristics.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Precision Shaped Grains, 3M™ Stamark™ High Performance Pavement Marking Tape, IR Blocking Window Films

    • 3M Polymer Processes Technologies (Pp).

      Polymer Processes

      • 3M is a world leader in the development and uses of polymers, combining and shaping these unique molecules into films, tapes, and hardgoods through single and multi-layer extrusion, coating, and a variety of forming processes. Expertise in elevated temperature processes and combination with 3M materials science enables solventless and less energy intensive manufacturing. Nearly all 3M technology platforms and all business groups leverage polymer processing for making differentiated products that solve customer products. These products include tapes for automotive attachment and industrial assembly, protective films for cars and aircraft, graphic and traffic signage films, light and heat management films for windows and electronic displays, as well as masking, packaging, office, and duct tapes.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Sun Control Window Film Prestige series, 3M™ Glass Cloth Electrical Tape 69, 3M™ Scotchcal™ Graphic Film with Comply™ Adhesive

    • 3M Radiation Processes Technologies (Rp).

      Radiation Processes

      • The materials in many 3M products are cured, modified, or enhanced through physical or chemical changes―such as heating, polymerizing, crosslinking, or ablating―that are caused by radiation processing. We use ultraviolet and/or visible light, electron beams, infrared, fast-paced laser pulses, microwave, gamma radiation, and other technologies to produce improved products. Radiation processing touches a majority of 3M’s technology platforms and is a critical element for product platforms ranging from adhesives and abrasives to optical films and microreplication.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Trizact™ Abrasives, Optically Clear Adhesives for Display Solutions, 3M™ Dual Brightness Enhancement Film (DBEF)

    • 3M Vapor Processes Technologies (Vp).

      Vapor Processes

      • Critical product performance characteristics often depend on a precision control of surface chemistry, topography, and coating thickness.  3M has created this valuable vapor processing platform through the refinement of vacuum, non-vacuum and plasma-based technologies that evenly coat, remove, or transform single or multilayers of metals, oxides, and polymers in nanometer to micron thick increments. Many of our current products owe their unique durability, surface energy, barrier, interfacial adhesion, optical and chemical properties to the company’s expertise in this specialized and high-performance manufacturing technology.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Ultra Barrier Solar Film, 3M™ Scotchlite™ Reflective Materials, 3M™ Bright Screen Privacy Filter

    • 3M Computer Vision Technologies (Cv).

      Computer Vision

      • Computer Vision plays an integral role in a variety of innovative 3M products across multiple divisions. The company’s expertise in light management materials and image and video analysis when fused with state-of-the-art machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms yield innovative products with enhanced machine readability properties. Such efforts include license plates that allow for more accurate reads, pavement markings that can help autonomous vehicles navigate, and robotic systems for paint repair.

        Featured Products: 3M Connected Roads All Weather Elements, 3M™ Finesse-it™ Robotic Paint Repair System, 3M™ Visual Attention Software

    • 3M Data Science & Analytics Technologies (Ds).

      Data Science & Analytics

      • Data Science & Analytics is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge and new insights from both structured and unstructured data. 3M applies Data Science & Analytics to solve complex, challenging customer problems and automate workflow within all Business Groups.  We integrate data from our own materials and processes, plus incorporate research, and customer data to create unique 3M products and solutions.

        Featured Products: 3M Consumer Electronics Products and Applications, Industrial and Manufacturing Solutions, Home Improvement

    • 3M Electronic Systems Technologies (Es).

      Electronic Systems

      • Through electronics, sensing and data collection, 3M is adding intelligence and connectivity to many products.  By combining 3M’s world-leading expertise in materials and processing with sensors, electronics, cloud technology and analytics, Electronic Systems is creating powerful platforms for smart materials, smart devices, and smart systems.  Recent examples can be found in workers’ safety, transportation, air quality, automotive, abrasives and robotics, and grid modernization applications.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Versaflo™ TR-600 PAPR, 3M™ RepairStack™ Performance Solutions, 3M Connected Safety

    • 3M Modeling & Simulation Technologies (Ms).

      Modeling & Simulation

      • Creating what’s next means moving swiftly and intelligently. And in today’s fast-paced world the power of advanced Modeling and Simulation is transforming how we discover what’s around the corner.

        Modeling and Simulation technology provides insights into fundamental physical and chemical phenomena.  It enables 3M researchers and engineers to virtually test and predict the properties of yet-to-be-made materials, explore innovative product design, accelerate the development of better manufacturing processes, and offer customer support tools to achieve a high level of customer engagement and value. All before physical development begins.

        Embracing this new model of prototyping and experimentation and leveraging ML/AI helps 3M more rapidly deliver valuable new products across our businesses and markets, from manufacturing to aerospace, electronics to architectural, energy and more.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Cubitron Abrasives, 3M™ Optically Clear Adhesives (OCA) for Display, Filtrete™ Room Air Conditioner Filters

    • 3M Advanced Robotics Technologies (Ro).

      Advanced Robotics

      • Advanced Robotics is a technology platform that combines actuator design, physical manipulation, perception sciences, advanced path planning and computer-controlled devices. 3M uses traditional robotic processing to drive value stream optimization in 3M-internal manufacturing and more recently uses advanced robotics to perform mass-customized operations. Advanced Robotics drives high-throughput product development in 3M labs, leverages machine learning, and brings proprietary robotic systems to our customers. Robotic processing impacts most of 3M’s divisions through R&D or manufacturing channels and is very quickly gaining relevance to our industrial customers.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Finesse-it™ Robotic Paint Repair System, 3M™ RoboTape™ System, Abrasives Automation

    • 3M Sensors Technologies (Se).

      Sensors

      • A power outage that leaves thousands in the dark, a wildfire impacting the air we breathe, lane detection systems keeping drivers safe – these and other indications can be detected and communicated by 3M sensors and other sensors relying on 3M components. Our technologies respond to an array of stimuli, including heat, light, pressure, radio, voltage, current and other signals. Sensor applications can be found everywhere from our homes, including laser-based air quality sensors to detect microscopic particles in the air, to the modern power and electrical grid, allowing grid operators to gain insights into problems before they occur.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Sensored Cable Accessories, 3M™ Sensor Camouflage Films, Filtrete™ Smart Air Filters

    • 3M Software Solutions Technologies (Ss).

      Software Solutions

    • 3M Analytical Sciences Technologies (An).

      Analytical Sciences

      • New-to-the world technologies generate solutions for our customers - and a host of questions for our scientists. What is this? How does it work? Can we make it better? To answer those questions, 3M has developed an unrivaled capacity for measuring, characterizing, and understanding materials and processes. With resources located around the world, 3M scientists can draw on our analytical strengths during all phases of product development, from concept through commercialization, manufacturing, and registration.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Cubitron™ II, 3M™ Optically Clear Adhesives (OCA) for Display, Filtrete™ Room Air Conditioner Filters

    • 3M Automation Solutions Technologies (As).

      Automation Solutions

      • 3M Customers increasingly demand not just world-class materials and consumables, but a full solution that includes automated application of 3M products. To meet this demand, 3M leverages its extensive knowledge base in industrial application engineering, including an intimate understanding of our customer’s manufacturing processes.  Automation Solutions involves the design or adaptation of 3M consumables such as adhesives and sealants to meet the comprehensive workflow needs of our customer base, worldwide.  In some cases, as with our robotically dispensed 3M Extrudable VHB™ Tape, this has involved a wholesale reinvention of an adhesive to enable automated application.  In other cases, we have leveraged our knowledge of automated system integration to build solutions around existing consumables such as VHB™ Tapes.  Critical capabilities within this technology element include product design for automation, robotic system integration, industrial process understanding, and automated application development.

        Featured Products: 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape, 3M-Matic™ Case Sealers

    • 3M Converting & Packaging Technologies (Cp).

      Converting & Packaging

      • For more than half of 3M’s products, the last step in the manufacturing process is the conversion of a film, abrasive, tape, or other material into the specific shape and size that a customer requires. Our ability to rapidly reconfigure how a product is cut, shaped, and finished allows for efficient customization with consistent quality. And this manufacturing agility is matched with capacity for flexible packaging that preserves and protects the finished product―and the branding strategy of the seller.

        Featured Products: Post-it® Super Sticky Note, Scotch™ Cushion Lock Protective Wrap

    • 3M Inspection & Measurement Technologies (In).

      Inspection & Measurement

      • The extreme precision of 3M’s manufacturing―in some cases, tolerances are less than a wavelength of light―require similarly precise tools for measuring and inspecting product quality. 3M has created optical, infrared, and UV-sensing systems, gauges, and other proprietary tools for measuring performance, strength, color, reflectivity, and thickness. These and other parameters provide exact, high-speed confirmation that our processes are operating at peak efficiency and uniformity and that our products conform to all our customers’ specifications.

        Featured Products: Scotch-Brite™ Products, 3M™ Vinyl Electrical Tapes, 3M™ Advanced Polarizing Film

    • 3M Interface & Surface Science Technologies (Is).

      Interface & Surface Science

      • More than any other company, 3M delves into the surface of things. We create unique surfaces by modifying substrates (e.g. films, particulates, fibers) using corona plasma, flame treatments, gases or aerosols, to change the properties of the interface between the substrate and a contacting layer or matrix. Similarly, in layered items, determining the interactions at the interface plays a key role in understanding and controlling performance. 3M control of interface & surface interactions allows us to improve the receptivity of a material to fluids and adhesives, enhance reflectivity, or create other novel characteristics.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Diamond Grade™ Reflective Sign Sheeting,  Command™ Brand, Scotch® Box Sealing Tape

    • 3M Process Design & Control Technologies (Pr).

      Process Design & Control

      • Precise, consistent, cost-competitive, and safe: expectations are high for sophisticated manufacturing technologies. Few companies in the world can compare with 3M in the design and operation of the most demanding manufacturing processes, especially web handling, precision coating, drying, converting, and automated assembly. 3M strengths include process and equipment knowledge, modeling and innovative control systems which combine to deliver flexible, integrated, and sustainable manufacturing. The result of 3M’s advanced manufacturing processes is apparent in every high-quality 3M product… and every rapid modification in those products to meet local market needs.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Cubitron™ II Abrasives, 3M Bright Screen Privacy Filter, Command™ Brand

    • 3M Sustainable Design Technologies (Sd).

      Sustainable Design

      • At 3M we leverage Sustainable Design to thoughtfully reduce the impact of our products, processes, and packaging. This includes the materials we choose and how we use them - always with a view to restoring them, optimizing our supply chain and manufacturing processes, enabling our customers and consumers to live more sustainably through our products and fully considering circularity and end of life options.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Cool Roofing Granules, 3M™ PELTOR™ WS™ ALERT™ XPV Headset, Scotch-Brite® Greener Clean Family

    • 3M Accelerated Weathering Technologies (We).

      Accelerated Weathering

      • Many 3M products are designed for outdoor applications where they will be exposed to various climatic elements. Customers expect our traffic safety materials, signage, and other durable products to perform reliably after years of exposure, even in extreme conditions. To ensure that premium level of performance, 3M has developed technologies that replicate the extremes of light, temperature, and moisture seen in climate zones around the world. By combining real-world outdoor and laboratory accelerated exposures, 3M has developed an unparalleled ability to measure, analyze, and respond to the demands of the toughest environmental conditions.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Diamond Grade™ DG3 Reflective Sheeting Series 4000, 3M™ Diamond Grade™ Conspicuity Markings, Graphics & Signage

    • 3M Acoustic Management Technologies (Ac).

      Acoustic Management

      • Loud, unpleasant noises aren’t just irritating―they are also a threat to our health and safety. 3M has engineered select nonwovens, viscoelastic polymers, and other materials to absorb sound, dampen vibration, and control undesirable noise. In automobiles these materials create a quieter passenger compartment. In computer disk drives, they reduce irritating sounds and help increase access speed and storage capacity. In the workplace they reduce distraction, protect hearing, and allow communication.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Flexile Acoustic Material FAB0910, 3M™ Engineered Damping Material EDM1016, 3M™ Thinsulate™ Acoustic Insulation 

    • 3M Climate Technology Technologies (Ct).

      Climate Technology

      • As a leader in climate technology, 3M is harnessing materials science-based innovations to accelerate solutions that tackle some of the most pressing opportunities in climate change. Examples can be found in carbon dioxide capture, automotive electrification, hydrogen generation, built environment and adaptation, energy grid transition, reduced use of solvent, and increased use of renewable feedstocks.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Nanostructured Supported Iridium Catalyst Powder, 3M™ Glass Bubbles, 3M™ Window Films

    • 3M Display Components Technologies (Di).

      Display Components

      • Displays have become omnipresent in our daily lives – putting information and communication at our fingertips. At 3M, we develop a wide range of technology and products for displays to enhance the visual quality, reduce the energy consumption, protect display surfaces, keep information secure, and enhance the user interface. By combining our expertise in films, light management, adhesives, nanotechnology and microreplication, we develop solutions to enable the next generation of displays.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Advanced Polarizing Film, 3M™ Enhanced Specular Reflector, 3M™ Optically Clear Adhesives (OCA) for display

    • 3M Energy Components Technologies (Ec).

      Energy Components

      • As the world searches for new ways to generate and store energy, it turns to 3M technology. From consumer electronics to electric vehicles to hydrogen generation and backup power for telecommunications towers; 3M’s battery and fuel cell technologies help to store and deliver energy when and where it’s needed efficiently, reliably and sustainability. 3M is advancing technologies in the photovoltaic industry such as barrier films and supplying products such as very high-bond and conductive foil tapes. In the wind industry, 3M provides leading-edge protection tapes for wind turbines to protect and maintain blades against erosion from rain, hail, and salt spray. For production of oil and natural gas, 3M pipe coatings are used for corrosion protection of production tubing, line pipe and fittings. 3M's glass bubbles are used as lightweight, ultra-high-strength fillers in pipe insulation, drilling fluids, drill riser buoyancy and cementing operations in both offshore, deep-sea operations and tertiary recovery production. 3M is tackling tough challenges in vehicle electrification related to thermal runaway protection, battery assembly and disassembly, eMotor assembly and more.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Wind Protection Tapes, 3M™ Glass Bubbles, 3M™ Scotch-Weld™ Epoxy Adhesive DP100 Plus

    • 3M Engineered Graphics Technologies (Eg).

      Engineered Graphics

    • 3M Energy Management Technologies (En).

      Energy Management

      • 3M technology enables the prudent and safe use of energy resources. 3M works with customers around the world to help everyone get more out of the energy resources we have. Products such as 3M™ Window Films, for example, control sunlight to help reduce cooling and heating costs. Other 3M films help reduce the need for lighting by directing sunlight farther into a building. Equipment manufacturers use our insulating materials to build smaller, lighter, more efficient motors that run cooler and require less energy.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Sun Control Window Films, Night Vision™ Series, 3M™ Sun Control Window Film Neutral Series

    • 3M Flexible Electronics Technologies (Fe).

      Flexible Electronics

      • As the world becomes ever more digital, the opportunity for new materials and technologies that can enable flexible electronics continues to emerge. Such flexible electronics may take the form of displays and sensors that can bend, conform, or dynamically change shape across a diverse set of use modes. Some first applications include folding displays for consumer electronics, bonding 3D displays in wearable VR devices, and 3D shaped interfaces for the automotive human to machine experience. 3M’s strong materials, process, and manufacturing capabilities are aligned to support the unfolding needs of flexible electronics.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Human Machine Interface (HMI) Solutions, Optically Clear Adhesives

    • 3M Filtration & Separations Technologies (Fs).

      Filtration & Separations

      • Our customers work in a wide range of industries that require removal of contaminants from the air to ensure reliable, safe, and comfortable environments. Families need clean air in their homes. To meet these rigorous standards and expectations―3M offers multiple liquid and air filtration, separation, and purification options, including electret, membrane, activated carbon, and nonwoven fiber technologies. This expertise has been applied to 3M's filters, cartridges, personal respirators, consumer air filters for homes and cars, and other products.

        Featured Products: 3M™ High Flow Series Filters, 3M™ Aura™ Particulate Respirator

    • 3M Light Management Technologies (Lm).

      Light Management

      • Begin with 3M's deep understanding of advanced materials and specialty materials processing. Combine those materials in thin films with hundreds of layers. Integrate with 3M's unmatched ability to create microscopic structures on films (and other surfaces). By leveraging these and other technologies, 3M manipulates light to enhance and transform everyday products. Signs are brighter and easier to see. Buildings are more energy efficient. Electronic displays are more vivid while consuming less power. EV’s are more comfortable and have longer range.  VR headsets have improved image quality and are more compact and easier to wear All through the power of light management.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Advanced Polarizing Film, 3M™ Sun Control Window Film Neutral Series, 3M™ Diamond Grade™ DG³ Reflective Sheeting Series 4000

    • 3M Mechanical Fasteners Technologies (Mf).

      Mechanical Fasteners

      • With 3M mechanical fasteners, customers can attach materials and then detach them―over and over again. We create the durable structured surfaces using a combination of our unique technologies including microreplication, polymer processing, adhesives, and nonwovens. These “catch and release” fasteners have transformed such diverse products as infant diapers and abrasives; they are also used in transportation, sporting goods, and electrical products.

        Featured Products: 3M™ Dual Lock™ Reclosable Fasteners, 3M™ Hook and Loop Reclosable Fasteners

    • 3M Thermal Management Technologies (Tm).

      Thermal Management

      • No matter your industry, 3M thermal management materials can help you design devices that run cooler and more reliably or are protected from heat sources with effective insulation. Their excellent stability, thermal conductivity (high or low), high dielectric strength and conformability make them ideal for applications including thermal management of microprocessors, computers, server systems, lithium-ion batteries, electrical transformers, and high temperature processing equipment as well as protect surroundings from high heat loads and fire.  Example materials include ceramics, resins, sealants, adhesives, tapes, pads, nonwovens, and ceramic woven fibers.

        Featured Products: Boron Nitride Cooling Fillers, 3M™ Nextel™ Ceramic Fiber Mat, 3M™ Thermally Conductive Acrylic Interface Pad

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