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.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Scotch™ Brand, celebrating a legacy of breakthrough innovation that began in 1925 with the creation of Scotch Masking Tape to help auto-body painters detail ...

3M unveiled a new medical adhesive tape at MD&M West 2023 in Anaheim, Calif. The product, known as 3M Medical Tape 4578, can stick to the skin for up to 28 days and is intended for use with a wide ...

A young 3M salesman in 1925 found the winning combination of a flexible paper backing and an adhesive with an ideal tackiness ...

The 3M adhesive-tape plant in suburban Bedford Park is doing what many manufacturing executives can only dream about. With federal approval, Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. is crafting an all ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—3M is adding to its Scotch-Weld structural acrylic adhesive portfolio with the addition of three new products the company says offer low odor, enhanced performance, high elongation and ...

Since then, 3M has developed a wide range of tapes — or pressure-sensitive adhesives, as they are technically known — and among its most popular is the Scotch-Blue brand of painters tapes.

“Foam poster tape is great stuff, but it’s going to take off part of the wall with it,” he said. Instead, he suggests Command, 3M’s line of semi-permanent wall hooks and Velcro patches.