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Manufacturers' Council celebrates Coolest Thing winner at 3M
1 Aug 2025
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The kickoff of the Coolest Thing Made in Minnesota started, and you can nominate your favorite Minnesota product today. You can do that through August 15, so you’ve got a couple of weeks. We’ll announce the first bracket of voting of those most favorite things right here in Minnesota that you nominate.
We'll start the bracket and public voting starting September 2 through October 5. We'll narrow it down and join us on October 7 at our Manufacturer Summit, where the winner will be announced. This week, we actually spent time out at 3M for our Manufacturer's Council tour at 3M's Innovation Center. Featured there, of course, was last year's winner of the Coolest Thing Made, Scotch Tape, which is incidentally in its 100th anniversary of the product.
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