About 3M
3M is a $25 billion diversified technology company which, since 1902, has been creating innovative products that help make the world healthier, safer and more productive. Well known 3M brands include Scotch, Post-it, Scotchgard, Thinsulate and Scotch-Brite.
We never stop innovating, that’s why there’s hardly any aspect of modern life that we don’t touch. On average, every one of us will come into contact with a 3M product or technology seventeen times a day. That’s a bit of 3M every hour and twenty five minutes, and given that we have over 55,000 products, it would take more than nine years to get to know them all. And by then we would have invented more!
3M employs some 79,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 60 countries. It produces thousands of innovative products for customers in dozens of diverse markets. The company has applied its expertise in RFID technology to deliver biometric passports; it is using its understanding of the healthcare industry to provide hospitals with infection prevention and detection solutions; and in 2008 it launched the MPro range of pocket projectors.
The UK and Ireland is home to one of the largest 3M subsidiaries outside the USA, employing more than 3,500 people across 18 locations, including 12 manufacturing sites.
www.3M.co.uk.
