3M, the full name of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Maplewood, a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. It is an American multinational enterprise group and one of the Dow Jones 30 industrial component index stocks.
3M is known for its innovation and wide range of products. In its more than 100 years of history, it has developed more than 60,000 high-quality products, including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, personal protective equipment, window films, paint protection films, dental, orthodontic products, electrical, electronic connections, insulation materials, medical products, car care products, electronic circuits, healthcare software and optical films.
Over the past 100 years, 3M's products have penetrated into people's lives, from consumer goods to medical supplies, from transportation, construction to business, education and electronics, aerospace, Internet of Things, communications and military fields, greatly changing the way people live and work. In modern society, 50% of the world's people come into direct or indirect contact with 3M's products every day.