3M

the company Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing of cost. in pc. Paul, Minnesota, the USA, is a company operating world-wide. World-wide particularly under the designation 3M well-known enterprises was created 1902.

The original business of 3M consisted of diminishing corundum as raw material for abrasives for the large car manufacturers in Detroit. 3M recognized the immense need for taking off tapes with the lacquer finish. Thus the range of tapes developed just as rapidly as lasting beside the production of abrasives. Also today still is the company admits for these two product ranges.

Besides 3M invented also the well-known post office Its. The success of these contributed to the fact that the term “post office It” is often generally used for sticking notes, even if these from another mark are (term monopoly). The product range of 3M extends today also to electronics products, like projectors. In the marking technology, safety areas, etc. 3M has a controlling position. Additionally 3M Medica is prominent in the Medicalbereich in the equipments of hospitals and medical practices.

Specialist is 3M particularly also in the production of advertising foils, road safeties and Labelingsystemen. Particularly are here the advertising foils on public means of transport or also retroflecting foils for road signs and vehicles admit.

1996 separated the department of Imaging & information from 3M, in order to become too imation.

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• http://www.3m.com/de - German Website of 3M
• http://www.3mmedica.de - German Website of 3M Medica
• http://www.3m.com/ - English-language Website of the enterprise
• http://www.scotchprint.de/ - portal for external advertisement (fronts, penalty, courses etc.)
• http://www.scotchcal.de/ - advertisement & Design
• http://www.3MVerkehrssicherheit.de/
• http://www.3M-Blickschutz.de/ - 3M products for laptops and display