Challenge creativity, seek innovation and change
3M Company is a corporate organization that constantly pursues innovation and breakthroughs, and encourages its colleagues' imagination to fly freely and break through all barriers to meet customer needs. 3M has invested approximately US$5 billion in R&D over the past five years, and currently has 6,500 colleagues around the world engaged in full-time R&D work. R&D personnel are encouraged to use 15% of their working time to engage in research projects of their own interest. Due to this free imagination, 3M has more than 40 categories of product business groups and 100 specialized technologies.
◎ Get close to customers and grow together
Most of 3M's locations around the world have a long history and are closely interdependent with the development of various places. The vast majority of 3M's colleagues in subsidiaries outside the United States are outstanding talents selected locally, because 3M believes that they are the only ones who are the best candidates to understand local needs. They also rely on their trustworthy and positive personality traits to drive the company to penetrate into the local area. Create more job opportunities, more social wealth and more stable growth.
◎ Respect individuals and inspire potential
3M regards its more than 70,000 colleagues as its most valuable assets and believes that the company's goal of continuous growth can be achieved through the creativity of colleagues; respecting individual rights, dignity, value and full freedom of work is to promote The driving force behind colleagues’ creativity.
3M marketing network around the world
3M's first direct investment in overseas subsidiaries outside the United States began in 1951. Currently, 3M has subsidiaries in more than 60 countries around the world. Most of these overseas subsidiaries are 100% invested by 3M Company, and the latest one was established in Morocco (Morocco) in Africa in 1995. Among 3M's overseas subsidiaries, 39 countries have production lines and 29 countries have laboratories. Through the manufacturing and marketing networks of these subsidiaries, 3M provides diversified and high-quality products to customers in more than 200 countries around the world. services.
3M products and technologies
3M produces and sells nearly 60,000 products worldwide, and has many specialized technologies such as precision coating, ultra-thin film, adhesives, specialty chemicals, non-woven materials and microreplication, and optical technology. All products and technologies are widely used in industrial manufacturing, medical care, power, telecommunications and electronics, traffic safety, office supplies and home cleaning. The excellent quality and ease of use have been widely recognized.
Environmentally friendly results
3M implemented the “Pollution Prevention and Control Pays Back” program (3P Program) with remarkable results
3M has implemented the "Pollution Prevention Pays (3P)" program since 1975. This program achieves pollution reduction in a preventive manner, that is, considering possible pollution before product production, and repurposing the product to reduce pollution. Formulations, improved manufacturing processes and redesigned equipment are used to achieve pollution prevention and control goals through recycling and reuse of waste materials, rather than remediating pollution after it occurs.
Since the implementation of the 3P program, creative 3M employees around the world have proposed and implemented more than 4,400 pollution solutions, avoided the generation of nearly 640,000 tons of pollutants, and saved costs of 700 million. $50 million.
The success of the 3P program has not only been imitated by many companies, but also been recognized by environmental protection agencies, government agencies and United Nations organizations. 3M has won a number of environmental awards, the more important ones such as: National Conservation Alliance Conservation Council Award, World Environment Center Award and the Sustainability Award from the White House.
