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Science. Applied to Life. " Meeting with EC DG GROW (Director Carlo Pettinelli & Team) Online meeting 24 September 2020 Ref. Ares(2023)3666686 - 26/05/2023 Agenda Tour de Table Introduction to 3M EU Policy Agenda: Green Deal & Circular Economy Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability PFAS 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 2 Introduction to 3M 3M in Europe, Middle-East & Africa 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M located in 53 countries across 7 regions 21,000+ employees including 1,500 scientists, 5,800 customer-facing employees, and 11,100 workers in Manufacturing & Supply Chain 44 manufacturing sites and 20 Distribution Centers 3M 4 We are the company with ideas that stick. Our 4 Business Areas for Government, Industry & Society Safety & Industrial Transportation & Electronics Health Care Consumer Personal safety Adhesives and tapes Abrasives Closure and masking Electrical markets Automotive aftermarket Industrial minerals 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. Automotive and aerospace Electronics Transportation safety Display materials Commercial solutions Advanced materials Medical solutions Oral care Separation and purification sciences Health information systems Food safety 3M Stationery and office supplies Home improvement Home care Consumer health care 6 EU Policy Agenda & Green Deal 3M supports the EU Single Market & Green Deal: science based legislation to support innovation & jobs 3M is committed to promoting innovation, safe use of our products, sustainable manufacturing and stewardship across the industry. 3M advocates for a balanced regulatory environment based on scientific facts to ensure European industries remain competitive and sustainable. 3M & PFAS: 3M manufactures, imports, uses, and supplies various PFAS and PFAS containing products for numerous, primarily industrial, applications. We produce PFAS in 2 sites: Zwijndrecht, Belgium and Gendorf, Germany. Performance. Credibility, Transparency 3M participated to the Call for Evidence related to an evaluation of restriction options for PFAS. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 8 Sustainability at 3M - Apply science to improve every life Design solutions that do more with less material, advancing a global circular economy. Innovate to decarbonize industry, accelerate global climate solutions and improve our environmental footprint. 2020 3M Sustainability Report Create a more positive world through science and inspire people to join us. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 9 Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals The UN SDGS serve as a global pledge to leave no one behind in pursuit of social, environmental and economic peace and prosperity Circular Economy: Up-Cycling Fluoropolymers in Germany 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. Up-Cycling Ground breaking for a closed loop! Why Up-Cycling perfluoropolymers? Perfluorinated polymers are materials with very special features everybody appreciates in their applications, from cook and baking equipment and contemporary architecture to making our cars more efficient and less oil and gas corsuming to protecting our chemical plants from harmful substances. Life became cleaner and safer with using perfluoropolymers in many aspects, but when the end of life has been reached tne valuable material goes to incineration or landfill disposal. So across countries we see that landfill deposits flow over - cost for waste management is increasing and valuable (irreplaceable) raw materials are disposed in stead of being kept in the value chain. Fully fluorinate, unfilled material commonly goes into Re-Cycling processes, degrading the material to very fine powder or wax, but with limited usability. This document will show you the benefits for all parties involved, if fully fluorinated poly mers are Up-Cycled instead of disposed. How we do it and how you can contribute to saving resources and cost. 3M 11 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability 3M Viewpoint on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability REACH has helped provide predictability and a level playing field. That needs to be maintained. Any legislative proposal or regulatory process needs to be based on sound science. Unacceptable risks associated with a substance need to be demonstrated before any risk management option is carried out. Regarding the reported PFAS Action Plan: o Restricting the 4,000+ PFAS substances risks uprooting the scientific basis of REACH and impacting European industries' ability to innovate in technologies central to achieving a European green deal and the circular economy. o An overly narrow regulatory focus on Persistence only will undermine innovation, including to produce durable and high performing materials that support societal sustainability goals. o A blanket restriction on PFAS would impact many sectors and have far-reaching effects on innovation, investment and jobs in Europe - need to involve all stakeholders. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 13 PFAS PFAS: Many Important Applications Low Emission Transportation Combustion Engine & Alternative Energy Aerospace Corrosion Protection & Emission Reduction Chemical & Power plants Fire-safe, durable roof for large events Semi Conductor & Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Medical Applications Fire Suppression Energy Recovery & Heat Transfer Data Center Cooling The majority of PFAS uses today are in applications with high societal value and important to the functioning of our modern life Some of these critical applications are supporting the Green Deal agenda - example of specialty chemicals Protecting art & valuable assets from fire Cooling data centers without using energy Protecting people from fire with low GWP solution Reducing climate impact of the energy sector Cooling batteries in EVs 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 16 Fluoropolymers are also in critical applications Fluoropolymer sales to key sectors in the EU (2015) Transport 18.500 Tonnes 300 Cm Chemicals & power 16.500 Tonnes 220 cm Cookware 3.500 Tonnes 60 Cm Electronics 3,500 Tonnes 50 Cm Food & pharma 3.000 Tonnes 40 Cm Textiles & architecture 3.000 Tonnes 40 Cm Medical applications 1,500 T 20 Cm Renewable energy 500 Tonnes <5 Cm Other 2,000 Tonnes 30 Cm G Gr r S> () GI TOTAL 52,000 Tonnes 780 Cm 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. Example application and benefit of fluoropolymers Fluoropolymer fuel hoses enable fuel savings and reduce damage from emissions, worth - 140m per year in EU Corrosion prevention saving hundreds of millicns of each year in the EU Easy clean non-stick properties, allows cooking with less fat il n semiconductor manufacturing, enabling progress In IT that has generated trillions of C globally in the last 20 years Safer and cheaper food and pharma by preventing contamnation and material failure Enabling novel and ursque 'landmark* architectural designs Reduces the risks of falure. cross-infections and clogging of medical equipment PV module producten efhc^ncy increases which save 40m - 90m each year in the EU Statistics on sectors where fluoropolymers are used Nearly 5 mJiion employed > 2 millien employed Europe accounts for 41% of global medeal device patents Source: Plastics Europe (2017) Socio-economic Analysis of the European Fluoropolymer Industry 3M Fluoropolymers - 4 reasons for exclusion from a restriction Fluoropolymers are highly stable high molecular weight materials. They have no bio-availability and no mobility in the environment Fluoropolymers do not degrade in the environment They are indispensable in many applications with high societal value Fluorinated emulsifiers are used in a controlled way in the manufacture of some fluoropolymers 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 18 3M Considerations on PFAS Legislative and regulatory measures based on grouping of 4,000+ substances with different chemical structure, physiochemical properties and an extremely wide range of applications across industrial sectors is neither scientifically justified nor appropriate and highly difficult to implement. Instead of a blanket approach, we believe PFAS of concern can be better addressed under REACH when grouped according to their structure. High molecular weight fluoropolymers should be excluded from restriction as they are polymers of low concern and important to many key sectors. Persistence on its own is not enough to assess or demonstrate an unacceptable risk to human health and environment and, therefore to ban or restrict substances being manufactured, imported, or used in products, particularly in such a broad fashion. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 19 3M Considerations on Essential Uses The essential use concept could not replace a proper impact assessment process and could not be used to bypass a proper risk assessment. Applying the essential/non-essential use concept in the absence of a demonstrated unacceptable risk would mean that products would be banned on the basis of unnecessarily intrusive judgements of what is good or bad for society, which is by nature relative and must remain evolutionary. Applying the essential/non-essential use concept should allow the use of substances when the benefits to society, including socio economic benefits, outweigh the demonstrated unacceptable risk, if any, and for which there are no equally performing, technically and economically feasible alternatives available. Such an analysis should also account for a life cycle assessment point of view. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 20 Other Considerations Most PFAS are manufactured for industrial uses. Most are manufactured in closed systems and under controlled conditions. PFAS-enabled articles have well controlled waste streams, including recovery and recycling (e.g. medical devices, automotive, electronics), so typically PFAS-containing materials in those uses would not add to the environment at the end-of-life of products. The majority of PFAS uses today are in applications of high societal value and important to the functioning our modern life (e.g. electronics, automobiles, airplanes, solar panels, medical imaging, medical devices, medicines, buildings, and many others). 3Mmanufactured PFAS products are used in many critical mainly industrial applications where they present significant socio-economic benefits and have no technically and economically feasible alternatives with equal performance. 3M >020. All Rights Reserved. 3M Confidential. 3M 21 We are a company that helped Neil Armstrong take one small step on the moon.