Easily Enhance Your Grip
When mated with another gripping material, our 3Mâ„¢ 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
3Mâ„¢ 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. 3Mâ„¢ 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 3Mâ„¢ 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 3Mâ„¢ Gripping Material can outlast leather in a factory or in the field. 3Mâ„¢ Gripping Material products are designed to be used alone, or as a two-part mated system. When used alone (on a single surface), the 3Mâ„¢ 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.

Standard Abrasives 713638, Cartridge RoII Mandrel, 3/32 in x 3/4 in x 1/8 in x 1 in x 2-3/4 in CM-2B, 7010294964
Insize 1121-200A, DIGITAL INSIDE POINT CALIPER, 1-8"/25-200mm, 6928640302268
Dynabrade 95821 Dynabrade Air Lube 10W/NR, 4oz Bottle
3M 97419, Aluminum Foil Tape 3380, Silver, 48 mm x 45 m, 3.25 mil, 7000049613
3M 57173, Temflex Cotton Friction Tape 1755, 3/4 in x 60 ft, Black, 7000058870
Dynabrade 98273 - 1/2" Female Coupler with 1/2" Male Plug Assembly
3M 21543, Scotch-Brite Roloc Clean and Strip XT Pro Extra Cut Disc, TR, 2 in x NH, A XCS, 7100179815, 60/box
3M 22393, Roloc Disc 361F, 36 YF-weight, TR, 3 in, Die R300V, 7000045093
Dynabrade 51629 .1 hp Straight-Line Pencil Grinder, Central Vacuum, 1/8" Collet
Dynabrade 94990 1/4" Female Composite-Style Coupler with 1/4" Male Plug Assembly
Dynabrade 78423 4-1/2" Dia. x 3/8" Very Fine DynaBrite Surface Conditioning Disc, 25/pack
ACS Diamond Cloth Belt, CX1250 1/2" X 72" 125U
3M 06802, Hand-Masker Film Blade FB12, 12 in, (30.4 cm), 7100091214
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
Dynabrade 11476 Dynabelter Abrasive Belt Tool, Heavy-Duty
3M 14270, Disc Pad Face Plate, 4-1/2 in Hard Black, 7000144144
3M 11412, Roloc Disc 361F, 36 YF-weight, TR, 1 in, Die R100N, 7000045092
3M 06564, Marine Adhesive Sealant 4200FC Fast Cure, Black, 295 mL Cartridge, 7000120497, 12/Case
3M 05612, Polyurethane Glass Adhesive Sealant 590, Black, 600 mL Sausage Pack, 7000121536, 12/Case 
