Choose a technology below to see how our ideas live on, in connection with others, to help solve problems around the world.
Choose a technology below to see how our ideas live on, in connection with others, to help solve problems around the world.
We engineer select materials to absorb sound, dampen vibration, and control undesirable noise.
Applications
3M display materials manipulate the transmission and reflection of light.
Applications
As the world searches for new ways to generate and store energy, it turns to 3M technology.
Applications
Pharmaceutical, food, and specialty chemical manufacturing demand components of the highest purity.
Applications
We can rapidly reconfigure how a product is cut, shaped, and finished for efficient customization.
Applications
3M pioneers the manufacture of electronic circuitry on flexible polymer films.
Applications
3M develops sophisticated films, inks and software for print, electronic displays, and signage.
Applications
3M manipulates light to transform everyday products.
Applications
Attach 3M mechanical fasteners and detach them, over and over again.
Applications
3M's fiber optic splices and connectors help service providers build and maintain networks.
Applications
3M engineers the size and spacing of pores to the application.
Applications
3M RFID helps increase productivity while cutting the costs of theft and loss.
Applications
3M combines strengths in material science, surface characterization, filtration, and biology.
Biotech
3M has pioneered metered-dose inhalers and transdermal patch systems.
Biotech
Our solutions bring significant cost savings and improve outcomes, worldwide.
Biotech
3M technologies are on the front lines in the fight against dangerous microbes.
Biotech
Our sensors respond to heat, light, pressure, radio, chemical, biological, and other signals.
Biotech
Dangerous infection is a risk whenever a patient's skin is compromised.
Biotech
More than a century of abrasives that shape, finish, and polish with ease and precision.
Materials
Strength to hold a structural panel for the life of a building. Or so gentle they yield to a child.
Materials
Our labs constantly invent new materials and breakthrough modifications of existing ones.
Materials
Over 100 years, we have forged inorganic materials into a surprising range of products.
Materials
We pioneer dental composites, adhesives, impression materials, orthodontic supplies, and more.
Materials
Helping advance components from semiconductors, interconnects, data storage, displays, and more.
Materials
From simple single-layered films to complex films tuned to transmit or reflect specific wavelengths.
Materials
Dyneon fluoropolymers have outstanding temperature and chemical resistance.
Materials
3M composite materials combine extraordinary strength and stiffness with low weight.
Materials
At the nanometer level, materials exhibit unique physical, chemical, and biological properties.
Materials
After 50 years of exploring uses for nonwoven materials, we're still finding new opportunities.
Materials
3M excels at the development and modification of low-volume, high-value materials.
Materials
Tiny, precisely shaped structures give materials new physical, chemical, or optical properties.
Processing
Precise optical lenses and complex shapes are formed using advanced molding techniques.
Processing
We can create and disperse particles in solids, films, and liquids.
Processing
Nearly all 3M technology platforms—and most products—rely on polymer processing.
Processing
We're combining finely controlled processes with the economy of roll-to-roll manufacturing.
Processing
3M researchers can predict the properties of yet-to-be-made materials.
Processing
We use ultraviolet and electron beams, fast-paced laser pulses, corona, flames, and more.
Processing
More than any other company, 3M delves into the surface of things.
Processing
Over decades of experience, 3M has refined vapor coating into an art.
Processing
3M products are designed for the outdoor elements.
Software, Analysis and Control
3M excels in measuring, characterizing, and understanding new-to-the-world materials and processes.
Software, Analysis and Control
Application Software controls, monitors, interacts with, and enables many 3M innovations.
Software, Analysis and Control
Extreme precision for manufacturing tolerances even less than a wavelength of light.
Software, Analysis and Control
Complex systems require comprehensive engineering.
Software, Analysis and Control
Precise, consistent, cost-competitive, and safe manufacturing technologies.
Software, Analysis and Control
