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Suppliers 166.
Introduction 177.
Our customers 178.
Innovation management 184.
Our products 194.
About report, scope, and boundaries 201.
GRI and UNGC index 205.
SASB index 216.
Assurance statement 219.
Metric tables 222.
What we create.
About report.
Feature stories Who we are How we work What we create About report 2 3M 2021 Sustainability Report | #improvinglives
A message from Mike Roman.
The last year has brought extraordinary challenges. It has also been a time to recommit to our values, our priorities, and the difference we want to make in the world. I am proud of how 3M employees stepped up to lead during a unique moment in history.
We fought COVID-19 from every angle, including producing more than two billion respirators to help protect health care workers and first responders. Following the George Floyd tragedy in Minneapolis, we built on our history of advancing social justice by launching an ambitious plan to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion within our company and community. Equally important, we are accelerating our commitment to sustainability, a value that matters deeply to 3M employees, our stakeholders, and me personally.
We are committed to being leaders in sustainability. We have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 71.1% over the last two decades and moved 42.9% of our manufacturing sites to zero waste. Our global headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota — home to 30 research labs and buildings — is fully powered by renewable electricity.
The pandemic has reinforced the importance of science in solving critical challenges.
the equivalent of taking 3.6 million cars off the road.
In 2020, 3M products helped our customers avoid 16.6 M tons of emissions,
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Additionally, we expect to achieve a 10% reduction in water use by 2022 and a 25% reduction by 2030 —
As we have for decades, we continue to advance this leadership. Earlier this year, we introduced significant initiatives as we apply 3M Science to shape a world with cleaner air, better water quality, and less waste.
3M is committing to become carbon neutral across our global operations. We expect to further reduce carbon emissions, aiming for a 50% reduction by 2030, 80% reduction by 2040, and 100% carbon neutral by 2050. These reductions will be driven by innovation that will help accelerate improvements that our world needs to address climate challenges.
gallons of water annually. 2.50B saving.
Over the next 20 years, 3M will invest approximately $1 billion to deliver on our new environmental goals and support continuous improvement of our manufacturing operations.
We will install advanced filtration technology by the end of 2023 at 3M’s largest water-using sites and have this technology fully operational by 2024, as we move to return even higherquality water to the environment after its use in our facilities.
These initiatives will help us build a stronger company and a more sustainable world. Over the next 20 years, 3M will invest approximately $1 billion to deliver on our new environmental goals and support continuous improvement of our manufacturing operations.
Science fuels our sustainability and societal goals. As CEO, I commit 3M’s continued support for the United Nations Global Compact, and our ongoing resolve to apply science to improve lives.
Mike Roman 3M Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer.
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A message from Gayle Schueller 2020 was marked by changes and challenges that grounded us all in what’s truly important.
The COVID-19 pandemic and impassioned protests for social justice around the world have made our path forward very clear: We must do more for the health of our planet and its people.
For 3M, these challenges strengthened our commitment to sustainability. We made great strides toward our 2025 Sustainability Goals and across our pillars of Science for Circular, Science for Climate, and Science for Community. To help advance a circular economy, we continued to close production loops and innovate with materials to reduce our overall waste and help others do the same. We furthered decarbonization through improvements in our own operations and collaboration with our customers to help reduce our collective footprint. Aiming to create a more positive world through science, we innovated new approaches and solutions to help fight the pandemic and took significant steps to address social inequity within our enterprise and beyond.
Driving progress together.
A common thread in our successes of the past year is collaboration. We recognize the importance of working across functions and organizations to spur innovation, expand our impact, and improve lives around the world. At this moment, the growing awareness of the need for meaningful change is particularly exciting, as is the momentum driving it forward. We have more opportunities than ever to work with employees, customers, governments, NGOs, and other corporations to drive real and needed change, collectively building a more sustainable future.
To emphasize the importance of these collaborative efforts, I’d like to highlight a few key examples from the past year. 3M has helped the world respond to the COVID-19 pandemic — accelerating our own manufacturing of deeply needed products as well as sharing our expertise and innovation to collaborate with other companies, universities, and nonprofits to help facilitate a robust global effort. At the same time, recognizing the growing problem of plastic waste, we reinvested in the Closed Loop Infrastructure Fund and helped drive increased recycling and circular economy infrastructure. 3M also announced a partnership with the United Nations Global Compact to advance the SDG Ambition, a program to accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) by helping companies integrate them into their core business objectives. We are collaborating with program partners to share our leadership experience in program development and sustainability goal-setting as a diversified global manufacturer.
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Advancing equity and inclusion.
In recognition of the need for greater action on social injustice, our company took time to listen and understand how our full capabilities can power racial equity and inclusion within our organization and surrounding communities. We established the 3M Foundation Social Justice Fund as an initial step to put resources into organizations with a focus on legal justice, racial equity, and healing. We also formed the 3M Community Coalition, a group of diverse leaders and organizations driving real change in our communities, who will advise on plans for directing 3M’s commitment of a $50 million investment to address pressing challenges and make the biggest impact. While we are hopeful that these actions will bring about positive change, we also recognize that we must do more to realize our promise and potential as a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company.
Accelerating action in 2021.
We are excited to build on the positive momentum of our actions in 2020 with an invigorating start to 2021. In February, we announced that we will invest approximately $1 billion over the next 20 years to accelerate new environmental goals to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, reduce water use by 25% at our sites, and return higher-quality water to the environment after use in manufacturing operations. We are also proud that all 3M sites in Poland and 3M Canada’s head office in London, Ontario, have joined our global headquarters in powering their facilities using 100% renewable sources. These transitions help us advance our commitment to move our entire global operations to 100% renewable electricity by 2050.
As we move into the remainder of 2021, advancing sustainability and positive impact remain a core focus for our employees, operations, communities, customers, and suppliers. I would like to extend a thank you to 3M employees across the globe who remain committed to helping address the world’s biggest challenges and to our customers and partners who help us put sustainable solutions in action. As always, I look forward to sharing our progress and continuing to work together to build a more sustainable and resilient world.
Gayle Schueller Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer 3M has committed a $50M investment to address pressing challenges and make the biggest impact.
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3M at a glance 8.
COVID-19 innovations 9.
COVID-19: a catalyst 11.
Extending product life 13.
Making strides 15.
Stakeholders weigh in 17.
Global survey 19.
Wind turbines 21.
Healthy forests 23.
Shrinking potatoes 25.
Listen, understand, and act 27.
Helping companies 29.
Turning students into change agents 31.
Site spotlights.
San Luis Potosí, Mexico 33.
Wuppertal, Germany 35.
Zwijndrecht, Belgium 37.
Iwate, Japan 38.
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3M at a glance.
Our Vision 3M Technology Advancing Every Company 3M Products Enhancing Every Home 3M Innovation Improving Every Life 50+ customer centers around the world $1.88B in R&D spend.
One of 30 companies on the Dow Jones Industrial average >125K patents.
More than 800 brands 100+ straight years of dividends $32.2B in sales 96.1K employees globally 51 Technology Platforms applied across four business groups >200 sites.
Over 55K products.
Sales in ~200 countries.
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Agility in action 3M’s tagline — 3M Science. Applied to Life.™— couldn’t have been more relevant than it was in 2020 as we helped the world respond to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Across the company, innovation continued as 3M adapted to the world’s needs by developing solutions to help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
“This pandemic has made 3M’s approach and priorities crystal clear,” said Chief Sustainability Officer Gayle Schueller in an interview with the World Circular Economy Forum Online. “The safety of our employees and the public, including health care workers and first responders fighting COVID-19, has been our highest priority.” “We continue to fight the pandemic, whether through our products… or through helping advance the technologies needed to help in the development of vaccines, therapeutics, and rapid testing. We’ve been working hard to fight the pandemic on many levels.”
Here are four examples of how 3M adapted quickly to create value for our customers and employees in response to COVID-19.
Disinfectant ready-to-use cleaner.
In late 2019, Consumer Business Group’s Home Care Division identified and prioritized disinfecting solutions as a new opportunity to pursue. When the pandemic reached the U.S., consumers became hyperaware of hygiene, causing an unprecedented demand for cleaning products.
Store shelves were empty, and availability was low. In order to help, “We knew we needed to accelerate our entry into this space,” says Global Emerging Platforms Leader Amanda Dauphinais. Her team quickly reviewed the existing product options within other parts of the company and identified a disinfecting product from the Commercial Solutions Division called 3M™ TB Quat Disinfectant Ready-to-Use Cleaner. The product, which cleans, disinfects, and deodorizes in one step, was originally created to kill germs related to tuberculosis (hence the “TB” in the name).
Used in commercial applications, the product was also approved for home use on its existing EPA master label and had a product claim of killing 99.9% of germs and household bacteria.
The Home Care team got to work, and in only 51 days, the product was brought to the consumer channel. As of July 2020, 3M was producing more than 600,000 bottles per month, and the product was available in more than 3,500 stores. Giving consumers a highly effective cleaning option in such a short time frame was not an easy feat. Dauphinais credits 3M’s collaborative technology culture, cross-functional teamwork, and supportive senior leadership as keys to success. An added benefit is the recyclability of the empty product bottles and shipping boxes.
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Hand sanitizer.
As 3M sites accelerated production of products to help in the fight against COVID-19, many began running out of hand sanitizer. Site workers relied on hand sanitizer as a rinse-free alternative to hand-washing to kill germs and help with hygiene on the job. The 3M site in Cordova, Illinois, had most of the materials needed to produce hand sanitizer, and using COVID-specific FDA guidance, they pivoted quickly to help. Three days after the team committed to the project, they produced their first batch of hand sanitizer. The Cordova site has shipped the hand sanitizer to more than 50 3M sites in the United States and Canada.
Learn about a similar project in Belgium in the 3M Zwijndrecht site spotlight.