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  • 5/23/12 10:35 am CDT

    Healthy Home Expert Lisa Beres Offers Tips to Remove Odors in the Home Naturally without Chemicals

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Homeowners go to great lengths to ensure their home looks, feels and smells clean. But if you’ve become accustomed to the scents of your own home, how can you really know if it’s odor-free? Homes trap all kinds of smells — last night’s salmon dinner, dirty gym clothes in the laundry basket, the cat’s litter box and more — but now you can stop odors from lingering. The Filtrete Odor Reduction Filter is the most effective1 odor-more...
  • 5/22/12 9:30 am CDT

    Innovative and physics-driven new Lightfalls fixture is the result of collaboration between 3M and prominent designer Todd Bracher

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Architectural Markets made its debut in the lighting market in a dramatic fashion, collaborating with designer Todd Bracher to showcase an innovative, state-of-the-art new lighting effect at this year’s WantedDesign event at Tunnel in the Terminal Stores during New York Design Week. The “Virtual LED,” enabled by 3M technology, was revealed via an experimental iteration of the company’s modular architectural lighting system known asmore...
  • 5/22/12 7:05 am CDT
    • The flexible, optically clear films protect sensitive electronics from oxygen and water vapor
    • Until now, 3M™ FTB3 Barrier Film had been sold primarily under very limited R&D agreements
    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M’s Optical Systems Division today announced that its 3M™ FTB3-50 and FTB3-125 films—flexible, optically clear films that protect sensitive electronics from water vapor and oxygen—are now commercially available. Previously, these films had been sold primarily under limited research-and-development agreements. FTB3 (for flexible, transparent, barrier) film has application in a range of emerging display technologies. “Many newmore...
  • 5/21/12 8:00 am CDT

    -Approved reliable method for global bottled water safety-

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Food Safety announced today that its 3M™ Petrifilm™ Aqua Coliform Count Plate has received NF VALIDATION from France-based Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) for its ability to detect and enumerate colonies of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria in bottled water samples. Validated against ISO 9308-1, the AFNOR certification confirmed that the microbiological analysis of 3M’s indicator technology performs as wellmore...
  • 5/17/12 10:37 am CDT

    Unique positioning spray integrates during infusion process

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phone number at end of fifth paragraph of release dated May 16, 2012, should read: 1-855-380-6553 (sted 1-800-380-6553). The corrected release reads: INTRODUCING THE 3M ADJUSTABLE COMPOSITE POSITIONING SYSTEM 11095 Unique positioning spray integrates during infusion process 3M introduces the new 3M™ Adjustable Composite Positioning System (ACPS) 11095, an easy-to-use positioning spray designed for pre-infusionmore...
  • 5/17/12 10:00 am CDT

    Industry leader expands flame resistant product line

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Aerospace will introduce exciting new offerings to attendees of the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) 2012 Conference, to be held May 21-24 in Baltimore, Md. The company’s leadership in flame resistance (FR) will take center stage, as a 3M scientist leads a session on Fire Safety and several new products are introduced. 3M Aerospace engineer Patrick Zimmerman, Ph.D., will co-chair the Firemore...
  • 5/17/12 8:00 am CDT

    Two-Year Agreement makes 3M Health Care exclusive stethoscope provider for all military hospitals in United States, Europe and Pacific Region

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M announced today that the Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded 3M Health Care a two-year Enterprise Incentive Agreement (EIA) to provide 3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes to all DoD medical treatment facilities in the United States, Europe and the Pacific region. The agreement was made effective on May 1, 2012. “3M Littmann Stethoscopes are internationally recognized as the gold standard for stethoscopes. We are proud to have been selectedmore...
  • 5/16/12 2:01 pm CDT
    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M is playing an important role in improving the visitor experience at one of the nation’s most beloved attractions. New acoustic tiles installed this week in the Great Ape House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C., are helping dramatically reduce noise levels, and allowing visitors to better appreciate the animals and their habitat. The Great Ape House, home to six western lowland gorillas and six orangutans, is amore...
  • 5/16/12 8:35 am CDT

    HP’s Power over Ethernet Technology Reduces Power Consumption to 13 Watts, from Typical 130 Watts, with Brilliant Display Quality

    ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Optical Systems Division today announced that it has enabled a new zero client, the HP t410 All-in-One Smart Zero Client, which operates within 13 Watts of power. Leveraging its Dual Brightness Enhancement Film for LED backlight monitors, 3M has enabled the first all-in-one zero client capable of being powered by Type 1 PoE (IEEE 802.3af). This eliminates the need for AC power cords and consumes as much as 78 percent less power than a standardmore...
  • 5/16/12 7:00 am CDT

    3M technology removes barriers to interoperability for all U.S. healthcare providers

    SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Health Information Systems announced today it will open access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient data betweenmore...