3M is not the only company looking for a respirator breakthrough. One firm is testing a washable N95, said Brosseau at the U’s infectious disease center. Still others are looking at more ...

The company takes ownership of the N95; after all, it was 3M that introduced the first government-approved filtering facepiece respirator that was the precursor to the N95 back in 1972.

3M, the world’s largest maker of respirator masks, said Friday it is willing to comply with President Trump’s order to manufacture and supply more critically needed N95 masks for the United ...

3M has another contract — worth $172.9 million — to supply N95 respirators to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which manages the nation's stockpile for critical medical supplies.

3M Co. said Thursday that it remains "committed" to making sure that everyone how needs an N95 face mask can get one. The consumer, health care and building products company is the market maker of ...

3M Co. has doubled global production of N95 respirators to a rate of nearly 100 million a month, or more than 1.1 billion a year, to arm health care workers dealing with the coronavirus that ...

3M has investigated 4,000 reports globally of fraud, counterfeiting and price gouging in connection with its N95 respirators. As a result, it has filed 18 lawsuits in North America. The Maplewood ...

3M plans to triple its monthly domestic production of N95 masks after winning a pair of contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense worth more than $200 million. The Maplewood-based company ...

3M Co.MMM 2.08 % increase; green up pointing triangle said rising N95 mask sales helped deliver higher-than-expected revenue in the materials company’s most recent quarter, as the Omicron ...

A dire shortage of N95 respirator masks and other medical equipment and supplies due to the coronavirus has some health care providers and states turning to secondary distribution markets — a… ...