Talk:3M

Passive Fire Protection

For reference to 3M's passive fire protection products, see http://www.mmm.com/firestop . 3M uses its own brand of sodium silicate, called "Expantrol", as an active ingredient in a variety of firestops, including its CP25 caulking, FS195 wrap strip, CS195 intumescent sheet and more. 3M also offers endothermic wrapping to preserve the operability of electrical circuits while exposed to fire. 3M's fire barrier mortar offers the best bounding in the business, with certified repair procedures using "itself" as well as 3M's intumescent caulking and putty. Their main man behind this is now retired, one Mr. Richard Licht, who testified in front of US Congress in the Thermo-lag 330-1 scandal that brought to light the US nuclear industry's acceptance of bounding without mandatory product certification.--Achim 00:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

I've just restructure the 3M article slightly. I also added a major products and technology section. If you think the above is worth adding to this section, go for it. IMHO, I think it is, but do not know the topic well enough to write about it in an encyclopeadic fashion. Anubis1975 02:02, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Magnetic Recording Tape

There is no mention within the 3M article of the 3M/Scotch line of professional 2-inch magnetic recording tape. I don't have sufficient historical knowledge of these products at my disposal; however, 3M does hold an important place in the development of magnetic recording tape, and so should be indicated as such. ````--Defone 09:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

PFC Controversy

My school is currently in the middle of a project about 3M's production of carcinogenic perfluorocarbons. This controversy has been in the local newspapers for the past year. Why is there no section of the article exploring this issue? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.144.36.137 (talk) 19:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

where is story about 3m buying venture tape co of rockland mass oct 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.217.161.252 (talk • contribs)

where is the story about venture tape co being bought by 3 m co oct 2007??—Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.217.161.252 (talk • contribs)

Then add it, add an acquisition/controversy section,Lihaas (talk) 11:32, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

copy edit

I have copy edited the section "founding", and removed the copy edit tag. I recommend some clarification for that section because the points don't seem to link. For example, what does the sentence "In reality, however, Dwan and his associates were not selling what they thought; they were in fact selling the worthless mineral anorthosite." have to do with the rest of the paragraph?--Samuel Tan 03:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Headquarters location

The 3M web site says that its headquarters are in St. Paul, but this article's History section and its infobox say they're in Maplewood, a city bordering St. Paul. The Maplewood article claims the same. Can someone set this straight? – Wdfarmer (talk) 21:03, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Tomsv 98 (talk) 14:59, 3 December 2008 (UTC) The mailing address on website says St. Paul; however, it is within city limits of Maplewood, MN.

Not without a source it cant say that.Lihaas (talk) 11:32, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

I suppose driving past it is original research, I will look for a source.Tomsv 98 (talk) 22:26, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Sources for perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in environmental section

• Coming Clean: Did 3M and DuPont ignore evidence of health risks?
• 3M found not liable for home value loss
• 3M begins cleanup of PFCs at former landfill -Shootbamboo (talk) 01:12, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Is a new article required?

This article says a company with 79,000 employees makes 55,000 different products. For that to be true each product would have to be made by 1.436 people. Since 0.436 of a person can't work on a production line but can spend 0.436 of her time on one product line and 0.436 of her time on some other product we get that after splitting her time between two product lines she has 0.128 of her time to spend on a third line. Follow this line of reasoning and we see that some lines have only one person on them whilst others have 1.536 people on them. This leaves one person with 182 hours a year to do the paperwork, pay the bills, marketing, advertising, design the logos, calculate payroll, open the mail and answer the phone. Does she have a Wikipedia page because it sure sounds as if she deserves one? Cottonshirtτ 05:14, 5 April 2011 (UTC)