In April 2022, 3M debuted an adhesive — 3M Medical Tape 4576 — that could last for up to 21 days. 3M developers in the U.S. and Japan spent about a year devising that longer-lasting adhesive.

There may be some pride in it, too. A 3M employee, Richard Drew, invented masking tape in 1925. He saw that when autoworkers would mask and paint car bodies, they often lifted specks of paint when ...

HUTCHINSON, MINN. - Since the first roll of Scotch tape came off the assembly line in 1947, 3M's Hutchinson factory has made enough tape to stretch from Earth to Mars and then some. Every year the ...

That's long been a pesky phenomenon -- known as "head-lighting" -- with many LED edge-lit LCD panels, and 3M's new Uniformity Tape wants to make sure it won't be around for much longer.

Attendees to the 3M booth were able to sample the medical tape, along with other 3M product demonstrations. MD&M West 2023 ran from Feb. 7-9, 2023 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, Calif.