3M workers make 1 billion respirators during pandemic

A 3M plant reveals manufacturing 1 billion respirators during pandemic.

Adding hundreds of people to the plant in South Dakota, America, and expanding production lines, they were able to bring monthly production of N95 respirators in the U.S. to 95 million per month.

Twenty months after the ramp-up began, the 3M Aberdeen plant has reached another major milestone.

They hit their monster milestone with help from other 3Mers. These included sourcing, supply chain, value stream and engineering across the Personal Safety Division (PSD) and Enterprise Operations. Plus, there were many volunteers from across the rest of 3M.