NEW YORK – 3M Co. (MMM) Thursday said it would acquire filtration products maker CUNO Inc. (CUNO) for about $1.35 billion in a move to capitalize on the growing need for water purification globally.

Minnesota-based 3M Companies Inc., corporate parent of Connecticut’s Cuno Inc. operations, is in the middle of 1,800 layoffs — and even plant closings — around the country, although a company official ...

Unlike water trickling down through one of its filters, earnings have defied gravity over the last four years at CUNO Inc. in Meriden. The maker of filters — for brewers, for oil companies, for ...

Adolph Coors Co. uses CUNO filters to brew beer. Exxon-Mobil uses them to remove sediments from oil. CUNO filters are in home pregnancy tests made by Johnson & Johnson. And the high-end refrigerators ...

today entered into an agreement for 3M's acquisition of CUNO for $72 dollars per share, valuing the transaction at approximately $1.35 billion. The transaction includes the assumption of $60 million ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- 3M said it's reached a deal to acquire Cuno Inc. in a deal carrying a total value of $1.35 billion. The Dow Industrials component is paying $72 a share in cash for Cuno's ...