On the Record · 3M
3M competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name 3M as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who 3M names
3M’s annual reports for 2022 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names 3M
Companies whose own annual reports name 3M as a competitor.
Word for word“Competitors include 3M, AptarGroup, Inc., Avery Dennison Corporation, Ball Corporation, Crown Holdings, Inc., Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Huhtamaki Oyj, International Paper Company, O-I Glass, Inc., Orora Limited, Packaging Corporation of America, Silgan Holdings Inc., Smurfit WestRock, and Sonoco Products Company, and a variety of privately held companies.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“For graphics and reflective products, our largest competitors are 3M Company (“3M”) and the Orafol Group.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Competitors include but are not limited to Amcor, Silgan, Aptar, 3M, and Sigma.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“On a product basis, competitors include Halyard Health, 3M, ASP, Steris, Danaher/Sybron, Dentsply/Sultan Healthcare, Amcor, Porter Instrument, Sterisil, ProEdge, J&J/Ethicon, LM Dental, Medicom, Young Dental, Braun/Aesculap and less expensive imported generic products from Asia and other lower cost manufacturing locations.” 10-K for 2020
Word for word“In risk modeling and digital underwriting, we compete with solutions offered by Milliman, Gradient AI, 3M and John Hopkins ACG.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competition includes Boston Scientific Corporation - Endoscopy; Cook Medical, Inc.; Merit Medical Endotek; Olympus Corporation; STERIS Corporation - U.S. Endoscopy; Cantel Medical- Medivators, Inc.; Cardinal Health Inc.; and 3M Company.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“PERFORMANCE MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES SAFETY AND PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTIONS • ABB • Arkema • Axens • Chemours • Emerson Electric • Haldor Topsoe • Lummus Technology • Rockwell Automation • 3M • Kion Group • MSA Safety Incorporated • TE Connectivity • Zebra Technologies” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“Our major competitors include 3M, Henkel and Sumitomo.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The Company’s primary competitors for this product are 3M Co., Shurtape Technologies LLC and Vibac Group.” 20-F for 2021
Word for word“Our FAM segment products compete to some degree against specialty products made by competitors such as Shaoxing Naite Plastics Co. Ltd., 3M Company, Covestro AG, ORAFOL Europe GmbH, Hollingsworth and Vose Company, Advanced Medical Solutions Group plc, and Ahlstrom Holding 3 Oy.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our Healthcare segment competes against Optum, Amazon, Google, 3M, Phillips, and other smaller competitors.” 10-K for 2021
Word for word“On a product basis, competitors include 3M, Baxter, Boston Scientific, Belimed, Ecolab, Fortive, Getinge, Karl Storz, Olympus, Ruhof, SteelCo, Stryker, Skytron and Wassenburg.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“On a product basis, competitors include 3M, Belimed, Cantel Medical, Ecolab, Getinge, Hill-Rom, Johnson & Johnson, Skytron, and Stryker.” 10-K for 2018
Read from 3M’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-03. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.