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3M Services GmbH
Official Website: http://www.3m.com/index.html?change=true
Official about page: http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Telecom/Home/News/The3MWay/ http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/About/3M/ http://www.3m-services.de/Telekommunikation/index.php http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Telecom/Home/News/The3MWay/ http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/About/3M/
Country: Germany
Location: Ahrensburger Straße 8, 30659 Hannover
Founded: 1902
Business: Surveillance, Monitoring, Tracking, Reporting, Lawful Interception, Cable detection and blocking, Integrated Monitoring Software
Contact
Phone: (0511) 74 01 92-0 (Germany)
Fax:


Background

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M) was created by five men, in 1902, that made sandpaper products in Duluth, Minnisota USA. "In the face of failure, they persevered and turned their investment into a lucrative venture."

3M is generally known by the public for the creation of Post-It Notes in 1980. 3M is a HUGE global corporations with numerous divisions of sectors, including Communications. "In the 1990s, sales reached the $15 billion mark. 3M continued to develop an array of innovative products, including immune response modifier pharmaceuticals; brightness enhancement films for electronic displays; and flexible circuits used in inkjet printers, cell phones and other electronic devices.

Products

3M manufactures and sells numerous surveillance products.

Weaponery

For example, in 2000, 3M sold components to US Aviation and Missile Command for AH-64 "Apache" attack helicopters. The US transferred about 50 AH-64s to Israel’s military, which has used them in various attacks including the bombing of Lebanon in 2006, and Gaza in 2008 and 2009.

The website of 3M’s subsidiary, 3M Israel Ltd., has over 150 webpages describing products with military applications. These 3M products include electronic and electrical parts, fasteners, containers and ballistic eyewear.

One of 3M’s divisions, its "Safety, Security and Protection business," sold US$3.18 billion worth of products in 2009. One such "protection business," 3M Electronic Monitoring, has its international headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. It "offers technologies to support law enforcement, corrections and security operations." It came to the fore in 2010, when 3M paid US$230 million for a Tel Aviv-based "homeland security" firm called Attenti Holdings. The general manager of 3M Track and Trace Solutions, Rory Yanchek, said the acquisition would make 3M "a leader in the high growth electronic offender monitoring market and add Global Positioning System and active Radio Frequency technology and capability to our portfolio." 3M Israel’s managing director added that "For 3M Israel, this acquisition will strengthen our presence and contribute to growth in our local market."<ref>Coalition against arms trade, COAT</ref>


Countries using Products

3M is a multinational company with worldwide operations in more than 60 countries. 3M products are available for purchase through distributors and retailers in more than 200 countries.

Americas

  • Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,

Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Europe

  • Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland Ukraine, United Kingdom

Middle East & Africa

  • Algeria, Bahrain, Botswana, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Asia & Pacific

  • Australia, Azerbaijan, China, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand

Reports

Tech & Business Partners

Founded by three former Israeli Air Force pilots, 3M’s Attenti Holdings makes "remote people monitoring technologies used for a variety of offender monitoring applications." Its wholly-owned subsidiaries, ElmoTech and Pro Tech Monitoring, make electronic devices to track prisoners. ElmoTech’s "TRaCE" and "Group TRaCEr" products are used to monitor inmates in penitentiaries and to supervise modern-day chain gangs, which are called "off-site work crews."

In 2005, Israel’s business paper, Globes, said Dmatek Ltd. (the original name of Attenti) had partnered with Hashmira Security Technologies "to ensure that the [Israeli] police and courts can monitor a convict’s moves by electronic surveillance." Globes also reported that this contract was for Israel’s "Ministry of Defense, the Israel police and the Israel Prison Service." The paper did not mention that Israel’s prisons incarcerate thousands of Palestinian political prisoners.

Hashmira, Israel’s largest private "security" firm, is owned by Britain’s G4S, the world’s largest "security-services" company. Hashmira is notorious for its complicity in Israel’s penal system. The online database, "Who Profits from the occupation," compiled by Israel’s Coalition of Women for Peace, says Hashmira provides:

  • Equipment for Israeli-run checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza,
  • The security system for "incarceration facilities designated for Palestinian political prisoners,"
  • The "central control room and a perimeter defense system…[for] an Israeli prison in the occupied territory for Palestinian political prisoners."
  • "[S]ecurity systems for…detention and interrogation facilities… [where] Palestinian prisoners are regularly subjected to torture."<ref>COAT</ref>

People Responsible

Inge G. Thulin Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

David Meline Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Joaquin Delgado Executive Vice President, Electro and Communications Business

Michael A. Kelly Executive Vice President, Display and Graphics Business

Angela S. Lalor Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Julie Bushman Executive Vice President, Safety, Security and Protection Services Business

Ian Hardgrove Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales

Michael G. Vale Executive Vice President, Consumer and Office Business

Frederick J. Palensky Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Technology Officer

Brad T. Sauer Executive Vice President, Health Care Business

Chris Holmes Executive Vice President, Industrial and Transportation Business

Marschall I. Smith Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel

H.C. Shin Executive Vice President, International Operations

John K. Woodworth Senior Vice President, Corporate Supply Chain Operations

OTHER

Additional 3M Contacts:

3M Communication Markets Division

6801 River Place Blvd., Austin, TX 78726-9000

Telephone Toll Free: 800-426-8688 Fax: 800-626-0329


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