Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 ...

And airplanes, too, said Jean Sweeney, 3M business unit director for the Scotch tape brands. Four divisions of 3M use the Scotch brand product name, three of them industrial, she said.

In 1925, 3M released Drew’s invention, the Scotch brand masking tape. While there is some uncertainty about why the line of tape was dubbed Scotch, company legend says that the name came about ...

Scotch ® tape is also honored by a leading consumer magazine as one of the "50 small wonders and big deals that revolutionized the lives of consumers." 1997: 3M introduces Scotch ® Pop-Up Tape ...

Scotch Brand Launches New Colored & Patterned Expressions Tapes Personalize for back-to-school with 100+ Magic, Washi, Masking and Shipping Tapes ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Just in time ...

Apparently today is Scotch tape day, celebrating the day adhesive tape was created for the first time by Richard Gurley Drew.Drew was a 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company) engineer who ...

Shares of 3M were down 11.7% at $95.32 per share as of about 2:30 p.m. ET Tuesday, and have lost more than 22% of their value in the past year. TradingView Article Sources ...

HUTCHINSON, MINN. - Since the first roll of Scotch tape came off the assembly line in 1947, 3M's Hutchinson factory has made enough tape to stretch from Earth to Mars and then some. Every year the ...

The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and BMO announced 3M's Scotch Magic Tape as the winner of the inaugural “Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota” contest at the 2024 Manufacturers’ Summit on Oct ...