… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. When 3M began in 1902, they made sandpaper. Soon the sandpaper company invented a ...

Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called ...

3M announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Venture Tape Corp., a global provider of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes based in Rockland, Mass. Terms of the transaction ...

The invention of the Post-It note by 3M was one of the 20th century's great stories of unintentional product design. Two of the company's engineers came up with a mildly sticky adhesive that the ...

3M has introduced a new adhesive tape that can stick to the skin for up to 28 days for use with medical monitors, sensors and wearables — a significant improvement over the industry's standard wear ...