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3M announces capacity investment for Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) production
3M (NYSE: MMM) today announced a major planned expansion of U.S. manufacturing capacity for its 3M™ Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) interconnect technology, a high-performance optical connectivity solution engineered to improve deployment speed, reliability, and operational efficiency within next-generation AI data centers. The expansion will include adding new advanced manufacturing equipment and additional production space to support increasing global demand for high-speed interconnects in AI data
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