As a leading player in China's segmented personal protective gloves market, a national high-tech enterprise, an industry standard drafting unit, and a vice-president unit of multiple authoritative labor protection associations, 3M Safety fully leverages its role as a leading enterprise, collaborates with government regulatory authorities, industry associations, upstream and downstream supply chains, and scientific research institutions and universities, to build an integrated industry-university-research-application collaborative ecosystem, and drives the high-quality, standardized and sustainable development of China's personal protective equipment industrial cluster.
At the industry collaboration level, relying on its vice-president position in China National Textile & Commerce Association and Shanghai Labor Protection Products Association, the company takes the lead in organizing industry technical exchange meetings, quality appreciation meetings and standard promotion meetings, shares self-developed technology, quality control management and compliant production experience, assists small and medium-sized supporting enterprises in completing technological upgrading and compliance transformation, unblocks stable channels for the upstream raw material supply chain, reduces production costs across the entire industrial chain, prevents inferior protective products from entering the market, and purifies the industry business environment.
At the government-enterprise collaboration level, the company actively responds to national policies on work safety and occupational health protection, cooperates with regulatory authorities in implementing quality sampling inspections for protective equipment and pilot work for the implementation of new regulations, and participates in the special action for standardization improvement of personal protective equipment, providing industrial support for policy implementation with more than 90 patented technologies and standardized practice achievements. In terms of university-enterprise industry-university-research collaboration, the company cooperates with universities offering textile engineering and materials engineering programs to co-build training and R&D bases, cultivate targeted professional talents in protective material R&D and safety engineering, and reserve young technical forces for the industry.
In terms of brand and industrial collaboration, more than 30 self-owned brands of 3M Safety have driven the rise of Chinese domestic labor protection brands, promoted the transformation of domestic protective products from OEM/ODM to independent high-end brands, and enhanced the international image of China's labor protection products. Going forward, 3M Safety will continue to deepen multi-party collaborative cooperation, integrate innovation resources, channel resources and standard resources, lead collaborative innovation in the industrial chain, empower industrial upgrading with the responsibility of a leading enterprise, and help China's labor protection industry move toward the high-end of the global value chain.