Its profitable Scotchgard grew from a laboratory accident that spilled slime all over somebody's shoe.

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It consists of nationally branded products such as Scotch adhesive tapes, Post-it low-tack adhesive stationary, Scotch-Brite sponges and scrubbing pads, Scotchgard fabric protectors, Nexcare bandages, ACE wraps, and Filtrete air conditioner filters.

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The company expects to develop branding for its Sol-Gel product in the same way that 3M (nyse: MMM - news - people ) has with Scotchgard and Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) with PCs.

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