3M Business Units
Medical Division
The Medical Division offers products and services for professionals in hospitals, home health care, nursing homes, physician offices and clinics, as well as for patients and consumers. Products include: surgical tapes, dressings, skin care products, surgical drapes, masks, skin prepping systems, adhesive skin closures, surgical clippers, synthetic casting tapes and splints, biomedical electrodes, electrosurgery plates, stethoscopes, biological and chemical indicators, ethylene oxide sterilizers, and sterilization monitoring products.
Major Markets: Health care.
Distribution: Primarily through medical and surgical supply distributors and durable medical equipment distributors. Also direct sales. Ethylene Oxide sterilizers are sold direct through medical sales representatives.