3M Company (full name: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) is a world-renowned diversified multinational corporation and a Fortune 500 company that originated in 1902 when five young men founded a mining company in Twin Ports, Minnesota, USA. The company was founded in 1902 by five young men as a mining company in Twin Ports, Minnesota, and later expanded into transportation, construction, business, education, electronics, communications and many other fields, with medical products, highway safety, office products, and optical products occupying a dominant core position in the market.