Easily Enhance Your Grip
When mated with another gripping material, our 3M™ Gripping Material GM531 provides high durability and high coefficient of friction properties. This firm but soft, black gripping material utilizes our proprietary micro-replication technology to create thousands of tiny replicated fingers that enhance grip and reduce slippage. This peel-and-stick product is designed to bond to many surfaces, providing a quick and easy increase in traction. Used alone, this material provides a secure grip with medium friction, but when used in conjunction with another gripping material, such as sewn into a glove and wrapped onto a handle bar, grip strength is maximized even in wet or oily conditions. This gripping material provides the best wet and oil grip when used with only a bare hand.
Recommended Applications
- Equipment handles, levers and grips on industrial equipment and tools
- Truck, forklift and auto steering wheels
- Power tools, gardening equipment, lawn mowers and snow blowers
- Sports equipment handles
Here’s a Grip Tip
3M™ Gripping Material GM531 is constructed with a thin and flexible fabric backing that is laminated to an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive designed to easily apply using a peel and stick application method. It bonds to a wide variety of surfaces, including low surface energy substrates, such as low surface energy plastics and powder coated paints and can be spiral wrapped around handles and shafts. 3M™ Gripping Material products can be shear cut, die-cut, laser cut or converted by other applicable methods.
Performance in a Wide Range of Temperatures
3M™ Gripping Material GM531 performs well across a broad range of temperatures, ranging from -40°F to 140°F (-40°C to 60°C) indoors and outdoors.
About our 3M™ Gripping Materials
Our gripping materials are available in roll or sheet form in a wide range of tactility from very soft to firm. Soft gripping material products are designed to be more comfortable during skin contact and tend to be more flexible to contour more easily to tighter curves. Firm gripping material products are extremely durable, and tend to be stiffer. If prolonged service life in harsh use conditions is a critical feature for your product, durability of the gripping material increases with firmness. Actual service life will depend on frequency of use and severity of end use conditions, but typically, most 3M™ Gripping Material can outlast leather in a factory or in the field. 3M™ Gripping Material products are designed to be used alone, or as a two-part mated system. When used alone (on a single surface), the 3M™ Gripping Materials provide a strong secure grip. When used as a two-part mated system, for example, on a glove and handle bar, grip strength is maximized.

3M 34425, General Purpose Sanding Sponge CP041-3PK, Single Angle, 2-7/8 in x 4-7/8 in x 1 in, Medium, 7100175218, 3/pack
Insize 6313-12, SETTING RING, 12.0" dia, 6928640357824
Standard Abrasives 726123, Zirconia C3 Straight Precision Cartridge Roll, 13/16 in x 2-1/2 in x 1/4 in 60, 7100098784
3M 7493, SCOTCH-BRITE SURFACE CONDITIONING DISC PAD HOLDER 7493, 3 IN DIA, 7010309651
Dynabrade 15101 Tension Arm (for Mini Dynafile II)
Standard Abrasives 726002, A/O R6 Straight Precision Cartridge Roll, 3/8 in x 1-3/4 in x 1/4 in 100, 7100098743
3M™ 17323, Versaflo™ Respiratory Helmet Assembly M-407, with Premium Visor and Flame Resistant Shroud, 7000002395, 1 EA/Case
Dynabrade 50302 4" (102 mm) Dia. Right Angle Depressed Center Wheel Grinder, 1 HP, 12,000 RPM, 3/8"-24 Spindle
3M High Performance Flatback Tape 2519, Tan, 18 mm x 55 m, 48 Roll/Case, 7100243626
3M 33440, Cubitron II File Belt, 33440, 80+, 10 mm x 330 mm (3/8 in x 13 in), 7100033195, 10 belts per carton, 5 cartons per case
3M 33443, Cubitron II File Belt, 36+, 1/2 in x 18 in (12.7 mm x 457.2 mm), 7100033184, 10 belts per carton, 5 cartons per case
3M 04258, Scotch Printable Flatback Paper Tape 256, White, 2 in x 60 yd, 6.7 mil,24/Case, 7000123288
3M 94702, Cubitron ll Cloth Belt 947A, 120+ X-weight, 1/4 in x 24 in, Fabri-lok, Single-flex, 7100141686, 200 per case
3M 15041, Scotch Electrical Shielding Tape 24, 1 in x 15 ft (25 mm x 4,6 m), 7000031348
3M 16584, Accuspray Atomizing Head, Orange, 1.4 mm, 7100078992
3M 46394, Dual Airline Back-Mounted Adapter Kit SA-2000, 7000126161, 1 EA/Case
3M 98873, General Use Flatback Tape 2515, Tan, 18 mm x 55 m, 48 Roll/Case, 7100048098 
