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...Carlton said. She added that this track record may have helped steer Harvard to further license Whiteside’s lab’s developments. The research obtained from Whitesides’ lab will be developed through Nano-Terra’s existing relationships with large companies such as 3M and Merck KGaA, and with the U.S. government—specifically the Department of Defense. These partnerships are expected to produce products in 18 to 36 months, according to the press release. While many of Harvard’s schools have strict rules about professors partnering with companies that they...
SCOTCHGARD In 1953 Patsy Sherman, one of the few women chemists at a major corporation, was researching in 3M's labs ways to create a rubber material that aircraft fuel couldn't destroy. Her assistant accidentally knocked over a bottle of synthetic latex onto her new sneakers. Soap, alcohol and solvents couldn't remove the compound, but Sherman also noticed it resisted dirt. So she and a colleague improved its liquid repellency, and three years later 3M sold it on the market as a suede protectant. In 1973 Sherman obtained a patent for it to preserve carpets...
...burgeoning trend is toward ventures jointly owned by Chinese state enterprises and foreign firms; 687 were registered in the first half of 1985 alone, or almost as many as in all of 1984. Peking has even allowed 94 factories wholly owned by foreigners to be built. They include 3M China Ltd., a fully owned subsidiary of Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corp., which has set up a factory near Shanghai to make insulation tapes and other products...
...company, which has annual revenues of nearly $10 million, has distributors in 24 other countries, and its films have been dubbed into 13 languages, from Portuguese to Cantonese. Video Arts opened its first U.S. office, in Chicago, last January. It has 7,000 American clients. Among them: General Motors, 3M and Sheraton hotels. They rent Cleese's films for as much as $180 a week or buy them for about $650 each. Saks Fifth Avenue bought a copy of a popular film called If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour, which deals with customer relations, for each...
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