3M is a leading global provider of innovative security solutions. 3M utilizes authentication, tamper indication, and track and trace technologies to provide overt, covert, and forensic layers of protection. At 3M, we invest more than $1 billion annually in R&D, and our security products draw from proprietary 3M technologies, including virtual imaging, light management, optics, films, adhesives, holography, RFID, and others.

In over three decades in the security industry, 3M has worked with a variety of customers in both the public and private sectors. 3M technologies are used to authenticate products in diverse industries, including electronics, software, healthcare, transportation, chemicals, apparel, memorabilia, spirits, and tobacco.

Governments use 3M technologies to protect their passports, drivers’ licenses, identification documents, and tax stamps. As a diversified multinational manufacturer serving customers in more than 200 countries around the world, 3M faces many of the same product security challenges that our customers do. We understand the complexities of authenticating products and documents in an increasingly open and global society, and we partner with our customers to create lasting security solutions to protect their customers, brands, reputations, and revenues.