In a response to the continued price pressures on synthetic, oil based adhesives, global demand for natural latex rubber is expected to increase in the coming months. An anticipated increase in demand of more than 3% is expected to change the consumption ratio between natural rubber and the synthetic alternative. This follows a 1.9% increase [...]
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You would think that new ideas for dispensing a product that was first brought to market over eighty years ago would be long gone. Not so. 3M, the giant global manufacturer of almost everything, including Scotch brand cellophane tape, has won a prestigious Red Dot design award for their Scotch Box Dispenser. Click here to [...]
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Electricians use a standard color coding scheme to know “What’s hot and what’s not”. The coding is usually applied with electrical tape. Black Low Voltage Phase A Red Low Voltage Phase B Blue [...]
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Here’s a guide to a Photoshop exercise for creating an image that looks like it has been taped to a piece of parchment paper. If the item is virtual, the tape might as well be virtual too. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry. All the news about gaffers tape, safety [...]
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If you examine a piece of masking tape closely, you will see lots of crinkles or folds. The tape is not flat like electrical tape or label tape, but rather has texture called “creping” These folds mean that the tape, when pressed flat, is actually a little larger than it is when it is on [...]
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Louis Sharpe, writing in the Journal of Adhesion, shares this info on what makes tape “sticky”. Sharpe describes pressure sensitive tapes as being “tacky” because they exhibit a combination of the characteristics of high viscosity liquids that also elastic. This means that they will attach themselves to a surface in a process described as “wetting”, [...]
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The FDA cited the use of duct tape and cardboard to repair its product filling lines as one of the many reasons that Pax-All would no longer be allowed to export their products to the United States. The Food and Drug Administration pointed to what it said was inadequate testing, labeling and documentation in their [...]
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Meeting in Orlando, FL this week, the National Hurricane Conference is making a new recommendation to homeowners as we approach the hurricane season that starts in June. The Conference is trying to change the myth that has developed about the value of putting tape on windows and glass doors in expectation of a storm. Instead [...]
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Marketwatch, an online tracker of social media, reports that Shurtape’s Duck Brand duct tape Facebook page now has 5 million fans. Shurtech Brands, the holding company for Duck Brand tapes, has successfully used social media to create a brand name for what has always been a generic product by focusing on duct tape crafts and [...]
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As you read this, a giant roll of duct tape loaded on a flat bed truck is on its way to House Speaker John Boehner’s district office in Pennsylvania. The truck, with signs that call it the “Emergency Bridge Repair Team” is sponsored by the Laborers’ International Union of North America, a 500,000 member labor [...]
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