We are committed to improving our business, our planet, and every life.
Sustaining our planet, and our business, means protecting natural resources and empowering individuals and communities throughout the world to encourage progress. It means balancing economic, environmental and social factors while addressing global challenges. And above all else, it means uniting under a common goal: improve every life.
– Every day, 3M innovation aims to tackle some of the world’s most pressing areas of concern. Our 2015 Sustainability Report outlines our progress and commitments toward improving every life.
Using aluminum composite for the conductor core of a power line means you can carry twice the electrical power at half the weight—without disrupting existing infrastructure.
May 13, 2015
Dr. Gayle Schueller, 3M Vice President, Global Sustainability presented to the United Nations.
– Every day, 3M innovation aims to tackle some of the world’s most pressing areas of concern. Our 2015 Sustainability Report outlines our progress and commitments toward improving every life.
Using aluminum composite for the conductor core of a power line means you can carry twice the electrical power at half the weight—without disrupting existing infrastructure.
May 13, 2015
Dr. Gayle Schueller, 3M Vice President, Global Sustainability presented to the United Nations.
Our sustainability goal is to support individual growth worldwide while driving a growing business. This means addressing global challenges, like energy availability and security, raw material scarcity, human health and safety, education and development, while keeping our vision for growth in mind.
Like many organizations, we strive to balance the three key pillars of sustainability:
Learn more about how we’re addressing global challenges.
The only thing we like better than a great idea is great results. When it comes to sustainability, excellence lies in the evidence. From cutting green house gas reductions by 57% to using less water and releasing fewer pollutants, our sustainability efforts are paying off. Read more.
Since 1902, 3M has been improving lives. Social and environmental stewardship is central to who we are and is embedded throughout our vision:
With operations in more than 70 countries — and 55,000 products sold across nearly 200 countries — we are intricately woven into the global economy and deeply invested in humanity. No one is ever far from a 3M product, which empowers us to make a difference city by city, village by village and person by person.
Rapid communication advances are quickly merging our world into a global community with shared values. Together, we face uncertainties surrounding energy availability and climate change, water quality and availability, raw material scarcity, education, development, and human health and safety.
It’s clear that these global dynamics are challenging the sustainable growth of future generations, which is why 3M is using its greatest assets — ideas and innovation — to address these challenges.
With industries ranging from healthcare to electronics to automotive, we invent technologies that make daily life easier, safer and more fulfilling. Some of the recent ways in which we’ve applied our ideas and innovation for a more sustainable future include the following:
As we celebrate our accomplishments, we recognize the magnitude of the global challenges we are all looking to address. This will not be easy, and it will require shifts in how we operate, how we make long-term decisions and how we collaborate. But we firmly believe that, by working with our customers and partners, and by empowering people to exercise their own creativity and passion, we can drive the transformational changes necessary for the success of both business and society.
3Mers are a committed team, 89,500 strong, poised to help create a more sustainable future. We intend to do this by designing products that support our customers’ sustainability efforts, embedding sustainable practices across our supply chain, and, perhaps most importantly, joining together with a shared purpose.
I am proud to be a 3Mer committed to this effort and excited about the role 3M can play in helping everyone, everywhere, live a better life.
Inge G. Thulin
Chairman, President and CEO
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