“We will continue to maximize the amount of respirators we can produce on behalf of U.S. health-care workers, as we have every single day since this crisis began.”
3M said it would work with the U.S. to implement the Defense Production Act, which allows the president to mobilize the private sector to support national defense, and pushed back against criticisms that the company was favoring higher-paying countries with distribution of its masks.
“The idea that 3M is not doing all it can to fight price gouging and unauthorized reselling is absurd,” 3M Chief Executive Mike Roman said on CNBC on Friday. “The idea that we’re not doing everything we can to maximize deliveries of respirators...
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