Disaster Response

When you work with us, our knowledge and dedicated expert teams of technical, sales and marketing professionals become an extension of yours. We can help you gauge your minimum readiness level, understand potential threats to your organizational continuity, and turn your needs assessments into meaningful action plans.

We are a well-established authority on disaster response preparedness. For generations, governments and organizations have trusted 3M to help prepare and respond to events becuase we understand our customers' needs, we help develop many of the protocols and standards and we regularly publish educational technical documents that serve as critical foundational knowledge for our customers.

When you work with 3M, our connections become yours. Across the public and private sectors, we consult with government agencies, business executives and entire organizations to provide personal protective equipment. When you encounter a supply chain challenge, we're able to put our vast network to work to help solve it.

With sourcing and manufacturing both here and abroad, we can respond like no other. Leading up to a localized disaster event, the quantity and location of essential supplies can make the difference in how effectively and efficiently you can restock. The combination of our global footprint and localized manufacturing allows us to be where you are sooner, shift inventory where it's needed most and rapidly scale up production.

We know how to do business exactly the way you need us to. From writing new contracts to leveraging existing ones, our team has decades of experience partnerning with Federal, Regional, State and Local governments, as well as private entities of all sizes—always ensuring we provide a diversity of buying options to meet complex procurement requirements.

From PPE to healthcare and more, science is at the heart of our diverse portfolio. Protecting essential workers, reducing cross-contamination risks, transforming and repurposing spaces, combatting environmental pathogens and purifying the air are just some of the many ways we apply our science to help ensure your people and organization can effectively respond in a crisis.