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3M Company. 3M Company (originally the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) is an American multinational conglomerate operating in the fields of industry, worker safety, healthcare, and consumer goods. [5] The company produces over 60,000 products under several brands, [6] including adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire ...
Following initial discoveries of groundwater contamination in 2002, the Minnesota Department of Health conducted numerous studies –concluding in 2008, 2010, and 2014 – on the level of PFAs found in the bloodstreams of exposed residents. On February 20, 2018, the state of Minnesota settled its lawsuit against 3M in exchange for $850 million.
The building was the location where John Dwan, a Two Harbors attorney drew up the incorporation papers for the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (now 3M) in 1902. The new company's vision was to mine and process corundum that the founders believed was plentiful on Lake Superior's north shore. The company nearly went bankrupt, because ...
But his most significant investment was the money that he put into the infant and seemingly ill-fated Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, now known as 3M. From 1904 to 1906 Ordway sunk more than $200,000 in the floundering enterprise and then became the company president from 1906 to 1910.
Minnesota's newest public company will make its debut April 1, nearly two years after 3M first announced it would spin off its health care business. Solventum, the spinoff's name, will employ more ...
A 3M Company employee was helping set up a plastic extrusion line when they became caught in the machine’s rotating rollers and died, according to federal authorities.. The 3M Company reported ...
Exxon Corporation changed its name to Exxon Mobil Corporation upon merging with Mobil, J.P. Morgan & Company changed its name to JPMorgan Chase & Co., Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing changed its name to 3M Company, and Philip Morris Companies Inc. changed its name to Altria Group, Incorporated.
1902 John Dwan, Hermon Cable, Henry Bryan, and William A. McGonagle co-founded Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1902 as a corundum mining operation. [7] The men did not know at that time that "corundum was really another low-grade mineral called anorthosite." [8]