3M
3M is an American manufacturing and trading company offering products in six areas: office and consumer, safety, protection and security, visual advertisement and reflective products, industry and transport, power industry and telecommunication. 3M is a company with a world-wide range of operation, characterized by a high level of internal cooperation within research, manufacturing and marketing. 3M is an international corporation operating in over 60 countries all over the world. It has 79 000 employees, and in 2008 its sales reached the level of 25 billion dollars.
The company seeks to provide the most modern technologies and the highest
quality products to the market. These products include:
- connectors and cables for data transmission
- headers, sockets and connectors: pin, MDR, IDC, DIN, D-Sub, DIP
- ESD protection: control, bench and floor mats, bands, testers, ionizers, tapes, bags
- clips and test sockets for circuits: ZIP, DIP, SOIC, PLCC
- telecommunication solutions: Volition™ cabling, Dynatel™ troubleshooting,
- Cold Shrink™ cable boxes, heads, heat and cold shrink caps
- shielded connector heads
- foils to polish fibre-optic connections
- heatconductive and electroconductive bands
- bands: antistatic, anisotropic, light hardenable, protective
- light hardenable adhesives
- thermofusible adhesives
- electro-conductive glue films
- electro-insulating resins
- hearing, head, eyes and face protection
- Scotchlite™ reflective materials
- Safety-Walk™ anti-slip protections