The Business Journals

3M helps train collision-repair workers at its own auto-body shop

3M is hoping to help address a workforce crisis in the auto body collision repair industry. As the auto collision repair industry faces an unprecedented labor shortage, 3M Co. (NYSE:MMM) has opened a ...
Star Tribune

Auto-body work is labor intensive, but 3M wants to automate it. Here's what it looks like.

3M opened its first robotics lab more than 30 years ago to help customers figure out how to automate with 3M products. But only in recent years, while jobs continue to outnumber available workers, has ...
TwinCities.com

3M could end body armor line after Army funding delayed

3M Co. is reportedly threatening to shut down its body armor business after the U.S. Army delayed funding the Maplewood-based company expected to receive in 2015. 3M and Arlington, Va.-based BAE ...
Nasdaq

3M Secures $92M Body Armor Contract from Defense Logistics

Ceradyne, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of diversified industrial goods manufacturer 3M CompanyMMM, recently secured a contract worth $92.7 million from the Defense Logistics Agency to manufacture ...
UPI

U.S. orders body armor plates from 3M

MINNEAPOLIS, May 19 (UPI) --The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has ordered 177,000 body armor plates from Ceradyne Inc., a subsidiary of 3M. The lightweight enhanced small arms protective inserts, or ...