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Sustainability at 3M
For over 120 years, 3M has been dedicated to science and exploration, taking on global challenges and developing solutions for our customers. As a company, we’re guided by our Purpose, Promise and Principles as we create unique and differentiated value for our customers, shareholders, and stakeholders.
Our Purpose: Unlock the power of people, ideas and science to reimagine what’s possible
Our Promise: Improve lives by helping solve the world’s greatest challenges
Our Principles: Science-based performance
Unparalleled expertise, extraordinary outcomes
Makers of what’s next
Strength in collaboration
Change for good
These bind us together as one 3M, unified in our ambitions and empowered to drive long-term growth, reputation, and impact with every action.
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Science for Circular
Design solutions that do more with less material, advancing a global circular economy. We must reimagine our traditional global economy’s linear business model that strains ecosystems. In its place, a circular model uses essential resources only while having a net positive impact on supply, and it eliminates reliance on nonrenewable finite resources altogether. It measures business success in large part on the ability to do more with less, keeps products and materials in use, designs out waste and pollution, and restores and regenerates natural systems and biodiversity.
At 3M, we understand the urgency of this issue, and we see the circular economy as an opportunity to create impactful solutions, inspire leadership, and implement disruptive change across all industries.
Science for Climate
Innovate to decarbonize industry, accelerate global climate solutions, and improve our environmental footprint.
At 3M, we’re advancing our impact through more significant intermediate and long-term goals and actions that align with the latest findings by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We expect to invest heavily both in our efforts to meet our environmental goals, which include achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, and in our innovation, adapting our business to grow in sectors that support decarbonization.
We believe that by working together with our employees, customers, suppliers, government, and communities, we can help drive systemic change.
Science for Community
Create a more positive world through science and inspire people to join us. Leveraging science, innovation, and collaboration, we help solve global challenges like climate change, public health and safety, health care inequality, and other inequities in communities around the world.
We recognize the importance of equal access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. Equitable opportunities in STEM lead to stronger communities, a stronger 3M, and a brighter collective future. We also commit to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social and environmental justice within our company and community.
About 3M
At 3M, we apply science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily. Our ideas and science help companies around the world create solutions. Core industries we serve include Automotive, Commercial Solutions, Consumer Markets, Design & Construction, Electronics, Energy, Government, Health Care, Manufacturing, Safety, and Transportation.
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