COVID-19 resources

3M and Ford Motor Company are partnering to increase the production of 3M’s powered air purifying respirators. Learn more about the partnership here.

3M CEO Mike Roman delivered a letter to government officials highlighting 3M’s actions to curb counterfeiting and price gouging of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can read the letter here.

3M has a unique and critical responsibility in pandemic preparedness and response—a responsibility we all take very seriously. Our most urgent priority is the safety of our employees, healthcare workers and the public. See what 3M CEO Mike Roman has to say about 3M’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, 3M has doubled its global output of N95 respirators to an annual rate of more than 1.1 billion per year, or nearly 100 million per month. See how we’re supporting healthcare workers in the U.S. and around the globe through this pandemic.

3M introduces hotline, releases price lists to help combat counterfeits, price gouging during COVID-19. Read the announcement here.

3M posted the following update on additional details about our capacity increase of N95 respirators, strong measures to combat price gouging and counterfeiting, and new partnerships to help protect our healthcare workers on the front lines.

3M and the Trump administration announce plan to import 166.5 million additional respirators into the United States over the next three months. These imports to supplement the 35 million N95 respirators 3M currently produces in the U.S. per month.

Ford will begin producing an all-new powered air purifying respirator (PAPR) design, developed in collaboration with 3M. This personal protective equipment (PPE) will help protect healthcare professionals on the front lines fighting COVID-19.

3M is partnering with Cummins to increase the production of high efficiency particulate filters for use in 3M’s powered air purifying respirators, or PAPRs.

3M has collaborated with several decontamination companies to help evaluate whether or not their proposed decontamination systems could be used in connection with limited respirator reuse during critical shortages without having a negative impact on fit and filtration.

Helping the world respond to COVID-19. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions.

As the novel coronavirus spread throughout China, it became clear that a key piece of protective equipment for healthcare workers was the N95 respirator mask.

Newly designed powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs), developed by Ford in close collaboration with 3M, are on the way to healthcare workers fighting COVID-19.