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Today’s solutions for tomorrow’s vehicles

  • You are helping to engineer today’s vehicles and innovating for the vehicles of tomorrow. 3M is here is to help at every step in your journey.

    You face a road with many twists and turns. As vehicle energy ecosystems transition from ICE propulsion to hybrid and EV, so do design considerations like lightweighting, thermal management and mechanical energy control. Machine-readable lane markings, advanced sign technology and dedicated short range communications (DSRC) are more important than ever as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) expand into fully automated vehicles. Passengers need display readability, design-expedient sensor placement, interior temperature management and more.

    Explore how 3M is uniquely positioned to help you succeed.

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    Cross-industry Expertise

    At 3M, our OEM and Tier solutions for automotive design challenges are inspired by our work across more than 50 technology platforms including acoustics, light management, polymer processing and many more.

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    Materials Sciences

    3M has been developing new materials almost since the first automotive vehicles. Today, through our material development labs and Customer Innovation Centers in 36 countries, we are constantly working to create new and better uses for them.

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    A History of Collaboration

    For the past century, 3M has perfected the art of solving specific customer needs. Today we work with every major OEM in the world, directly and through dozens of demo labs and more than 50 Customer Technical Centers worldwide.

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    Global Reliability

    At 3M, our decades of developing products and solutions continues to drive a global, integrated network of facilities to provide them to you. So no matter what the solution, we’ll deliver it, consistently and reliably, anywhere in the world.

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Kick sustainability into high gear

Navigate evolving industry trends, regulations and goals with the help of 3M.

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Resources

  • Explore our OEM and Tier certifications, awards and the power of 3M Customer Technology Centers.

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How can we help?

3M is constantly working to meet the evolving challenges of automotive OEM and Tier suppliers worldwide. If you need help finding an existing solution or would like to talk about specific ideas you’re working on, get in touch with us.

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