3M Stories

3Mers coming together to combat anxiety and build community “What is happening?!” This may be one of the most commonly asked questions in the world right now. The repercussions of the COVID-19...

More than one billion students across the globe had their education disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including 55 million students in the US. Around the world, the virus has forced the...

3M has been awarded two contracts through the U.S. Department of Defense in recent weeks to further expand U.S. production of N95 respirators in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Beginning in...

Newly designed powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs), developed by Ford in close collaboration with 3M, are on the way to health care workers fighting COVID-19. Since late March, the companies...

3M has filed five legal actions in federal courts in Florida, Wisconsin and Indiana as part of its global effort to protect the public and combat fraud and counterfeiting. The lawsuits involve...

Working amid the coronavirus outbreak requires teams to communicate and collaborate differently. For many 3Mers who work with colleagues based around the world, remote teamwork is an everyday...

Healthcare workers at the front lines of the COVID-19 response are using N95 respirators to help protect them from the disease. But N95 respirators are not the only respirators that can be used in...

Loaded with more than 4 million respirators, the Antonov AN-124 cargo plane touched down April 24 in Baltimore after a 15-hour flight from Shanghai. The respirators, sourced from 3M plants in...

Almost immediately after the COVID-19 outbreaks began, 3M substantially ramped up production of N95 respirators; of these, more than 90% are now designated for healthcare workers with the...

While 3M is maximizing the production and delivery of N95 respirators to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, individual employees are going above and beyond to help, too. Around the...