For those who are left on the 3M Titanic, take a good hard look at the PFAS product list that was posted/buried on the 3M website in December. You can’t search it (that’s intentional no doubt) but odds are that among the 15,000 products affected, your division has several that account for a large portion of sales and there is no plan to reformulate it. 3M is already dodging customers on this topic and sales reps are having to deal with the fallout. No answers from management on the plan, never mind that some industries will be totally f’ed without the products. If you’re still there, in about a year you can expect a lot of angry calls from customers who weren’t notified or overlooked the product discontinuation from their distributor or channel rep. You won’t be looking for new sales, you will be looking for replacements that simply don’t exist. 3M has little concern they’ve put their reps in this position.
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As I understand the mandate all PFAS related products are to have their last invoice no later than 12/31/25, but some will end sooner.
As one of the PFAS heavy people laid off this round, I can confirm the other PFAS producers are trying to get out attention and contacts, and it more than just Chemours. The feeling I get from talking to some of them is that most domestic producers will phase out of these materials, leaving it to oversees Chinese based production of PFAS material. That's going to be just great if there is a trade war, or actual war in the coming years.
What is the deadline for phasing out the 15,000 products?
I believe dupont spinoff chemours is still in the business and will likely swoop in and recoup some of 3Ms lost sales. That, and bunch of the laid off employees with knowledge of PFAS/PFOS will end up at chemours and help them grow the business.
Just when we thought Mike couldn't sc--w things up.more....