MPR News PM Update

July 26, 2022

There was a major corporate move in Minnesota today, as Maplewood-based 3M corporation says it's spinning off its health care business into a separate company. 

The spinoff will include 3M's wound and oral care products, health care provider technology and biopharma filtration businesses. Those products accounted for about $9 billion of 3M's $35 billion in revenue last year. 

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