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Additionally, many employees are engaged on safety teams, where they take time to focus on hazard recognition in an effort to improve the safety of the workplace for all employees. |
STEM support and more. |
Community engagement is a priority at 3M Columbia. One specific objective is the expectation to “demonstrate a strong brand in the community, linked through engagement and education.” The site is very involved with local science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and is a fixture in supporting organizations throughout the community that bring education to those in need. |
3M Columbia proactively connects local nonprofits with employees and grants from 3M or 3M Foundation. In the past several years, the site has directed grants toward many local organizations, including the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture, Columbia STEM Alliance, Girls in STEM summer camp, Columbia College science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics Summer Camp, and FIRST Robotics League. |
Beyond grants and cash funding, 3M volunteers participate annually in the local United Way Day of Caring, spending over 200 volunteer hours helping with the event. Additionally, 3M Columbia employees regularly support the local food bank, and the site is a sponsor of the FIRST Robotics league. 3M Columbia also hosts a segment of the Leadership Columbia curriculum, enabling community leaders to engage with the plant as well as host visits from local schools, such as students from University of Missouri and teachers from Columbia Public Schools. This type of community engagement is not new — 3M Columbia has been a Partner in Education with Shepard Elementary School for 35 years. |
Visit the 3M Columbia website to learn more. |
Columbia, Missouri 3M site spotlight hours volunteered at the annual United Way Day of Caring 200. |
Feature stories 34 35 3M 2020 Sustainability Report #improvinglives Site spotlight service levels. |
levels are extremely high, with excellent industry. Internal and external quality success, which are benchmarks in the first” attitude and customer support. |
The Columbia site is proud of its “customer. |
Manager Jim Burkhardt. and analytical chemistry,” says Plant and vapor processing, microbiology, room manufacturing, specialty coatings medical device manufacturing, clean- assembly, highly regulated drug and technical expertise in automated manufacturing space. “We have strong and over 175,000 square feet of clean 16,000-square-foot high bay warehouse, feet of classified clean rooms, a service. The site has over 50,000 square corridors, with local air and rail the confluence of two major highway central part of the United States at 3M Columbia sits on 100 acres in the surgical patients from infections. |
and solutions used to help protect purification filters, and sterilized products stethoscope in the medical community), (the #1 brand of. |
Examples include multiple product groups. variations that fall into thousands of product. |
Group and manufactures. |
Health Care Business. |
Missouri, supports 3M’s foot plant in Columbia, |
The 375,000-square- |
Alpha Beta Global Tapes and Adhesives Co., Ltd. (GTA), has been a wholly owned 3M subsidiary since 2011, with two state-ofthe-art manufacturing facilities located in the Kuan-Yin Industrial District on the outskirts of Taipei, Taiwan. |
GTA manufactures private-label premium pressure-sensitive tapes, including acrylic packaging tapes, hot melt packaging tapes, and a variety of masking tapes for its customers. |
Both GTA factories are equipped with advanced coating equipment, fully automatic warehousing, quality control labs, research and development labs, converting facilities, and conference centers. |
GTA is part of 3M’s Safety & Industrial Business Group’s Closure & Masking Systems Division (CMSD), with almost 350 employees and sales in nearly 70 countries worldwide. |
Kuan-Yin, Taiwan 3M site spotlight. |
GTA employees believe in working together to give back to their communities. |
In 2018, employees and their families participated in a local coastline cleanup volunteer activity in partnership with the Civil Affairs Office of Xinwu District, Taoyuan. |
In 2019, employees volunteered at the Reindeer Social Welfare Foundation, rebuilding the local children’s home, spending time with the children, and helping meet their day-to-day needs by providing them with daily essentials. |
Visit the Alpha Beta Global Tapes and Adhesives Co., Ltd (GTA) website to learn more. |
The site was registered ISO 14001 in 1998 and received the certification of Certified Green Partners® in 2003. |
GTA has a long history of environmental performance. |
The site was first registered for ISO 14001 certification in 1998 and received the certification of Certified Green Partners® in 2003. One of GTA’s most notable accomplishments has been to significantly reduce its volatile organic compound (VOC) usage and emissions. Its packaging tapes are manufactured using a solvent-free process, and its masking tapes are manufactured using advanced coating equipment that can recover and reuse more than 99% of solvents. This not only exceeds regulatory requirements, but it increases profitability by reducing the quantity of solvent purchased. |
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3M Springfield has been producing some of the world’s most advanced sealants and adhesives since it opened in 1967. With 450 employees, the 450,000-square-foot site sits on 100 acres of land and supports 3M’s Safety & Industrial Business Group (SIBG). |
3M Springfield has been busy reducing its environmental impacts. |
Multiple projects, such as replacing light fixtures with LED lighting, installing light sensors in the warehouse to eliminate lighting when no one is in the area, and identifying air leaks to reduce the running times of air compressors, have reduced energy usage at the site. 3M Springfield’s Quality Department also redesigned its systems to use an energy-saving, on-demand water heater system. |
3M’s Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) program, which began in 1975, is alive and well at 3M Springfield, which had 13 3P project goals in 2019. |
Most of these projects are focused on yield improvements and waste reduction at the production lines and are on track to save approximately 100 tons of waste by the end of 2020. |
3M Springfield is proud of its close-knit family atmosphere, and it shows in the efforts that employees are making regarding Sustainability, both at work and at home. |
In 2018, they developed a Green Team to focus on Sustainability at the site, which also encourages employees to take Sustainability home with them. The team increased recycling efforts in the production facility. In 2019, the Green Team gave away native Missouri seedling trees for employees to take home and plant. |
Visit the 3M Springfield website to learn more. |
Springfield, Missouri 3M site spotlight. |
Springfield, Missouri, may be best known as the birthplace of historic U.S. Route 66, one of the original highways in the United States. tons of waste by the end of 2020. 100 3M Springfield is on track to save approximately. |
But it’s also home to 3M’s Springfield plant, which manufactures a variety of adhesives, tapes, abrasives, and. |
Feature stories 38 39 3M 2020 Sustainability Report #improvinglives Site spotlight applications. electronics — just to name a few and assemble sporting goods and fromfire; make sure boats are sealed; components; help protect people used to bond aircraft and automotive films. The products produced here are |
3M has been manufacturing roofing granules in California for the asphalt roofing industry since 1948. |
3M IMPD California occupies 1,300 acres of land in the Temescal Canyon, located in Riverside County, California, about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The location includes an active mine site, manufacturing operations, and acres of open spaces which provide habitat for a variety of plant and animal species, including some that are endangered. |
The roofing granules, shipped to customers along the West Coast in bags, trucks, and by rail, provide longlasting, weather-resistant protection in an array of colors. The granules are dense‚ nonporous‚ UV-ray resistant‚ and tough enough to withstand handling. Made of a natural mineral product and coated in ceramic‚ the granules meet the toughest tests of time‚ weather, and marketplace. The rock used to make the granules is quarried at this location from a mine site that has been active for over 100 years. |
IMPD California 3M site spotlight 20% of electrical power required by the plant. |
Although it is one of 3M’s oldest divisions (Safety & Industrial Business Group, Industrial Mineral Products Division) and facilities, and although roofing granules are one of 3M’s oldest products, 3M IMPD California continues to innovate with new roofing granule products that are advancing Sustainability for 3M’s customers, their customers, and, finally, the homeowner. |
3M™ Cool Roofing Granules 3M™ Cool Roofing Granules are a 3M innovation and an energyefficiency breakthrough roofing granule technology. In climates with year-round cooling needs, they can help keep a home cool with less energy consumption and lower energy costs because Cool Roofing Granules are up to four times more reflective than comparable conventional colored granules. |
3M™ Smog-reducing Granules. |
In 2018, 3M launched 3M™ Smogreducing Granules, which harness the power of the sun to turn roofing shingles into a pollution-fighting surface. When the sun hits the granules, the photocatalytic coating transforms the smog pollution (nitrogen oxides) into water-soluble ions that safely wash away with rain. The product has won numerous awards, including being named one of TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2018 in the Sustainability & Social Good category. |
3M™ Natural Pozzolan 3M™ Natural Pozzolan is a new product developed for the cement industry as a Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM). By utilizing 3M Natural Pozzolan as a cement replacement, the greenhouse gas footprint of a yard of concrete is also reduced. |
In addition to manufacturing sustainable products, 3M IMPD California is committed to advancing Sustainability in its operations. |
3M IMPD California is certified to the ISO 14001:2015 standard, recycles 100% of process water, utilizes low NOx natural gas burners, and in 2019, energized a 1-megawatt solar array which provides 20% of the electrical power required by the plant. In addition, all forms of the mined rock are used in 3M products or in the aggregate industry, resulting in no mineral waste generated. |
3M IMPD California is very active in the local community, using 3M Foundation grants, sponsorships, board membership, and volunteerism to make a positive difference. |
In 2019, through nominations from 3M IMPD California, two local nonprofits were recipients of 3M Foundation grants. Santa Rosa Environmental Plateau received the Eco Grant ($15,000), and CoronaNorco United Way received the Community Vibrancy Grant ($25,000). |
3M IMPD California also enjoys hosting local schools on field trips and has set up learning stations in the areas of personal protective equipment, supply chain, geology, and quality testing. 3M IMPD California is also actively involved in the planning, sponsorship of, and participation in the Riverside County Women’s Leadership Conference, which is a half-day conference with speakers and vendors aligned to the theme of Celebrating the Power and Passion of Women. |
Visit the 3M IMPD California website to learn more. |
In 2019, IMPD California energized a 1-MW solar array providing. |
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Opened in 1971 with less than 25 employees, 3M’s plant in Nevada, Missouri, has expanded six times over the years and now boasts nearly 725 employees. |
3M Nevada is the largest of 3M’s Commercial Solutions Division (CSD) sites. CSD provides powerful solutions to customers to enhance the impact of their brand. |
Operations at the Nevada plant include compounding, coating, and converting. In addition, 3M Nevada produces products for 16 other 3M Divisions, demonstrating diverse capabilities across this complex manufacturing site. |
You can see products from the Nevada site in many places, including fleet vehicles, truck/trailer over-the-road hauling, billboards, translucent signage, and more. Their products are also used for high-end car wraps and refreshing marketing in stores or restaurants. |
The plant is involved with several initiatives that lend to its focus on Sustainability. |
Nevada, Missouri 3M site spotlight. |
Products. |
One of the product lines manufactured at Nevada is called 3M™ Envision™, a non-PVC intermediate film option that is GREENGUARD Gold Certified for low emissions of volatile organic compounds into indoor environments. |
Diverting waste. |
The Nevada plant is active in 3M’s Pollution Prevention Pays (3P) program. Plant engineers have submitted over 30 3P projects from 2018 through 2019, resulting in 1,316 tons of waste diverted from landfills. |
Employee engagement. |
Employee-led teams championed the recycling efforts at the plant. The teams engaged with employees through a poster program designed to raise awareness of recycling efforts within the plant. The team reused containers on-site as recycling collection bins, mapped the locations for the bins by most use, and created a material flow map for continual collection of recyclables to pre-selected main collection and sorting areas. |
Energy 3M Nevada received the 2018 3M Plant Energy Platinum Level Award for a 7.3% reduction in energy intensity between 2015-2017. Energy reduction efforts resulted in an energy use per pound of product reduction of 6.1%. |
Community engagement 3M Nevada has applied for and received several grants from 3M Foundation. Over the past three years, these grants were used for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) development and enhancement programs at local schools and within the community. Two environmentally focused grants, in collaboration with community donors, were used to create an outdoor learning space for the local community to enjoy. A walking trail includes pedestrian bridges and spillway development with signage. The project also includes ADAcompliant fishing docks, floating wetlands, and a butterfly garden. |
Another 3M Foundation grant provided a STEM learning opportunity for Nevada’s local YMCA summer program participants, funding a field trip to the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium. |
The 3M Nevada staff takes part in many STEM programs at local schools, including STEM demonstrations, STEM Night at the local middle school, and the “Smart Girls Rock” program. |
They also dedicate time to the Adopt A Highway® program. Employee teams rotate dedicated roadside clean-up activities quarterly. |
Visit the 3M Nevada website to learn more. |
tons of waste have been diverted from landfills. 1,316. |
From 2018 through 2019, |
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Who we are. |
Introduction 46 3M Value Model 48. |
Our Vision 49. |
Our Values 49. |
Our Strategic. |
Sustainability Framework 50. |
Advancing impact 56. |
Communities 60. |
Employee diversity and inclusion 70. |
Recognition 78. |