3M

<p>3M is one of the largest manufacturers in the world in many different fields&period; 3M is known to be the owner of brands such as Scotchgard&comma; Mguiars and many more&period; The company also makes many different products under their own brand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>3M&&num;8217&semi;s history<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>3M was founded in June 1902 by John Dwan&comma; Hermon Cable&comma; Henry Bryan and William A&period; McGonagle&period; It was named the &&num;8220&semi;Minnesote Mining and Manufacturing Company&&num;8221&semi;&period; The company was founded in Minnesote&comma; America&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The current company has roughly 88&period;000 employees and averages a 30 billion USD in annual sales via 55&period;0000 products worldwide under many different brands and in different industries such as&colon; adhesives&comma; abrasives&comma; laminates&comma; passive fire protection&comma; personal protective equipment&comma; dental and orthodontic products&comma; electronic materials&comma; medial products&comma; car-care products&comma; electronic circuits&comma; healthcare software and optical films&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>3M was originally created to be a mining venture with the goal to mine corundrum&period; Unfortunately it didn&&num;8217&semi;t appear to have much commercial value&period; In 1905 the company moved to Duluth where they started to research and produce sandpaper products&period;1916 was the year where the company started to become stable and actually pay off its debts&period; 1910 was the year where the company moved to St Paul&comma; its home for the next 52 years&period; It was only in 1962 that the company moved to the new Mapplewood campus where it is spread out over 50 buildings&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The first official product manufactered by 3M was the Three-M-ite cloth&period; Later years brought the masking tape&comma; waterproof sandpaper and Scotch brand tapes&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 2008&comma; Meguiars was taken over by 3M&comma; making the step into car-care products&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Among the products created by 3M are&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Chrome and Metal polish<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Clarity<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Sandblaster<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Scotch-Brite<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Scotch Tape<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Scotchgard<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Wetordry sandpaper<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<h2>3M products<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Although the presence of 3M isn&&num;8217&semi;t extremely large in the world of detailing&comma; there are many products that are linked to 3M&period; Under their own brand&comma; they offer tape&comma; polishes and many tools and accessories&period; Under brands that have been bought through the years&comma; the company offers products with another label then the 3M logo&period; These include Scotchgard and Meguiars&period; Via these brands the company offers many more different type of products that can be found in the world of detailing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Company information<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>3M has its own <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;3m&period;com&sol;" title&equals;"Company website for 3M" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener noreferrer">company website<&sol;a>&period; They also have several websites more focussed on a certain aspect of the company&period; The brand itself is hardly seen on Social Media or at detailing events and&sol;or meetings&period; They are not very active on message boards or fora&period; The brands that fall under the flag of 3M can be a bit more active on social media&period; Meguiars is known to be fairly active on fora&comma; message boards&comma; social media and larger meetings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;