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When Drew joined 3M in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1921, it was a modest manufacturer of sandpaper.While testing their new Wetordry sandpaper at auto shops, Drew was intrigued to learn that the two-tone auto paintjobs so popular in the Roaring Twenties were difficult to manage at the border between the two colors.
3M's Springfield, Missouri plant opened in 1967 and makes industrial adhesives and tapes for aerospace manufacturers. In 2017, 3M had approximately 330 employees in the metropolitan area, and announced a $40 million expansion project to upgrade the facility and redevelop another building. [134]
The Scotch brand includes many different constructions (backings, adhesives, etc.) and colors of tape. The use of the term Scotch in the name was a pejorative meaning "parsimonious" in the 1920s and 1930s. The brand name Scotch came about around 1925 while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed ...
The adhesive side of a Post-it note, magnified 555 times with a scanning electron microscope. 3M test marketed the product as a "Press 'n Peel" in stores in four cities in 1977, but results were disappointing. [18] [19] A year later, 3M launched a massive marketing campaign known as the Boise Blitz. [1]
Contact adhesives must be applied to both surfaces and allowed some time to dry before the two surfaces are pushed together. Some contact adhesives require as long as 24 hours to dry completely before the surfaces are to be held together. [3] Once the glue is ready, the surfaces are pushed together, and a permanent bond forms very quickly. [4]
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