3M Product Applications in Metalworking

View the Applications where 3M can help improve your metalworking production.

  • Attaching
    Attaching

    Built to last attaching power! From enhancing the appearance to improving performance, usability and faster assembly times, 3M’s attaching solutions can help you bring a higher quality, more competitive product to market.

  • Bonding
    Bonding

    From enhancing the appearance to improving performance, usability and faster assembly times, 3M’s bonding solutions can help you bring a higher quality, more competitive product to market.

  • Damping
    Damping

    Silence is the sound of quality. If vibrations damping and noise control are important to your product's performance, then it is time to evaluate 3M Acoustic Solutions.

  • Deburring/Radiusing
    Deburring/Radiusing

    Remove burrs and sharp edges that linger on metal parts after punching, cutting, and machining. 3M offers a wide range of deburring abrasives – ensuring no burr gets left behind.

  • Fastening
    Fastening

    Rethink your design and lose the screws. 3M’s fastening solutions are strong, yet easily removable, that can replace screws, bolts and rivets in your designs.

  • Finishing
    Finishing

    Smooth metal surfaces while keeping part geometry intact. Striking a balance between strength and finesse, 3M offers a versatile set of metal finishing abrasive products and advanced ceramics to help you blend, prep and perfect.

  • Grinding
    Grinding

    Remove metal and welds fast. Shape parts to meet project requirements. 3M offers a range of solutions, including blasting nozzles, grinding wheels and discs, to meet your metalworking demands – and get your parts into shape.

  • Hand Sanding
    Hand Sanding

    From utility sanding and surface preparation to everyday maintenance – sometimes, power tools can’t access hard-to-reach surface areas. Conformable and responsive, 3M abrasives, sheets and hand pads provide solutions for your tightest corners.

  • Powertool Sanding
    Powertool Sanding

    From weld removal to touch-up finishing, powertool sanding relies on the strength and finesse of tools to drive results.

  • Precision Grinding
    Precision Grinding

    From grinding-to-dimension all the way to superfinishing – 3M provides innovative solutions of Superabrasives, Conventional, Dressing Rollers and Precision Grinding Machines designed to meet today´s tough processing challenges in automotive, aerospace, oil and gas, cutting tools, primary metal, glass and other industries.