3M was founded in 1902 in the Lake Superior town of Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA. It is a products and services companies catering to diverse markets. It has its headquarter in Minnesota and has locations across USA and in about 200 countries worldwide. It has plants in Taiwan and Poland. In 2004 it became a 20 billion dollar company.3M has six business segments: Consumer and Office Business; Display and Graphics Business; Electro and Communications Business; Health Care Business; Industrial and Transportation Business; and, Safety, Security and Protection Services Business.

Under 3M's products & services offerings its Electronics Design and Manufacturing capability, it has the following line of products such as :

• Interconnect Solutions
• Abrasives for Electronics Finishing
• Battery Material
• Chemicals for Electronics Markets
• Flexible Circuits (design to prototypes to high volume production)
• Embedded Capacitance Material
• EMI/EMC Solutions
• Static Control
• Tapes and Adhesives
• Tape & Reel
• Touchscreens

Here we are highlighting some of the Interconnect Solutions products.

Interconnect Solutions
3M offers a wide range of connectors and cables as listed below

Input/Output Connectors
Board-to-Board

• Compression
• Connector Accessories
• Headers (Plugs)
• Hermaphroditic
• Sockets (Receptacles)

Cable/Wire

• Cable Guide
• Colour Coded Flat
• Extended Flex Life
• Ground Plane
• Halogen Free Cable
• Jacketed Flat
• Pleated Foil
• Power Flat Cable
• Round Conductor Flat
• Round Shielded/Jacketed - Discrete
• Round Shielded/Jacketed Flat
• Shielded/Jacketed Flat
• Twin Axial Cable
• Twisted Pair Flat

Textool™ Test &Burn-In Sockets
Breadboards & Test Clips
Wire-to-Board

• Card Edge
• Connector Accessories
• Headers (Plugs)
• Hermaphroditic Connectors
• PCB
• Sockets (Receptacles)

Wire-to-Wire

• Headers (Plugs)
• Hermaphroditic
• Sockets (Receptacles)
• Storage Connectors

Mini Serial Attached SCSI (miniSAS)
Backplane Connectors
Cable Assemblies

• Cable Guide
• High Routability Internal miniSAS Cable Assembly
• Industry Standard
• Low Voltage Differential Signalling/Transition Minimized Differential Signalling (LVDS/TMDS)
• Micro Coaxial
• Mini Delta Ribbon (MDR)
• Mini Serial Attached SCSI (miniSAS)
• Moulded-On Flat Ribbon, .100", 2mm
• Monosignal (mini-coaxial)
• Pleated Foil (PFC) Jacketed Flat
• Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
• Shielded Controlled Impedance (SCI)
• Shrunk Delta Ribbon (SDR)
• Ultra Hard Metric (UHM) Cable Assemblies

Memory Card Headers
IC Sockets
Application Tools & Accessories