Aearo provides a broad platform for accelerated growth. It will expand 3M’s occupational health and environmental safety platform by adding hearing protection as well as eyewear and fall protection product lines to 3M’s existing full-line of respiratory products. This acquisition enables 3M to provide industrial, military and construction customers as well as consumers with a more complete personal protection product offering.

Aearo has achieved recognition for its hearing and eye protection with brand names such as E-A-R, Peltor, and SafeWaze, and its reputation for developing innovative products and strong market competitiveness. 3M’s personal protective equipment provides customers with technologies and solutions that help increase personal safety and can help enhance productivity in markets such as first responder, industrial manufacturing, automotive, shipbuilding, military, home improvement contractors and consumer.

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Ind., Aearo Technologies is a company in the personal protection equipment industry. The company manufactures and sells technologically advanced hearing protection devices, communication headsets, non-prescription and prescription safety eyewear, face shields, reusable and disposable respirators, fall protection equipment and hard hats. Through its Specialty Composites business, the company provides engineered system solutions using a wide array of proprietary materials to control excess noise, vibration, shock, and thermal energy.