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.

Insize 6140, DEPTH BASE ATTACHMENT, suitable for calipers with beam width (w) .630", 6928640303579
3M 26140, PPS Series 2.0 Adapter, Type S45, 1/4 Female, 19 Thread BSP, 7100135336
3M 77558, Cubitron II Hookit Cloth Disc 947A, 77558, 40+ to 120+, 6 in x NH, Die 600Z, 7100232737
3M 26130, PPS Series 2.0 Adapter, Type S35, 16 mm Female, 1.5 mm
Thread Stretched, 7100135926
3M 27717, Cubitron II Roloc Durable Edge Disc 984F, 80+, YF-weight, TR, Maroon, 2 in, Die R200P, 7100001473, 200 per case
3M 26104, PPS Series 2.0 Adapter, Type S20, 1/8 Male, 27 Thread NPSM, 7100135929
3M 35083, EMI Copper Foil Shielding Tape 1181, 1/4 in x 18 yd (6,35 mm x 16,5 m), 7000132168
3M 97421, Aluminum Foil Tape 3380, Silver, 72 mm x 45 m, 3.25 mil, 7010375681
3M 97419, Aluminum Foil Tape 3380, Silver, 48 mm x 45 m, 3.25 mil, 7000049613
3M 04258, Scotch Printable Flatback Paper Tape 256, White, 2 in x 60 yd, 6.7 mil,24/Case, 7000123288
3M 26022, PPS Series 2.0 Adapter, Type S12, 10 mm Male, 1.0 mm Thread, 7100135943
3M 19771, Utility Cloth Sheet 314D, 9 in x 11 in P100 J-weight, 7000021272
Dynabrade 14360 Pneumatic Pipe Belt Finisher
Dynabrade 10690 Filter/Regulator/Lubricator, FRL40, 1/2" NPTAssy.
3M 19770, Utility Cloth Sheet 314D, 9 in x 11 in P120 J-weight, 7000000358
3M Super Abrasives Roloc Disc, 2" Type-R, Medium AO High Strength, Box of 50
3M 62795, Polyurethane Adhesive Sealant 550FC Fast Cure, Black, 310 mL Cartridge, 7100001803, 12/Case 
