3M (NYSE:MMM) announced today that it received two more U.S. Department of Defense contracts to further expand its domestic production of N95 respirator masks. Since January, the Maplewood, Minn.-based company has doubled its global output of respirators to 1.1 billion per year, with 35 million N95 masks produced per month in the U.S. According to a […]
Defense Production Act
Trump slams 3M over foreign respirator sales, invokes DPA
President Donald Trump last evening blasted 3M (NYSE:MMM) for selling some of its N95 masks to other countries, hours after invoking the Defense Production Act to prioritize orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “We hit 3M hard today after we saw what they were doing with their masks,” Trump tweeted Thursday night. “‘P Act’ all […]