The lowly roll of Scotch Tape hasn’t changed much since it was developed back in the 1930’s. The tape does pretty much the same job it was designed to do back then, and it still has the same problem it has had from day one. That problem is getting the tape unwound from the roll […]
A story in yesterday’s New York Times about natural gas caught my eye, primarily because natural gas is a component in the making of some of the adhesives on the tape products we sell. Natural gas prices have come down almost 25 percent since June, and oil companies that are extracting oil from shale oil […]
A quick search for “duct tape” at FineArtAmerica.com, brings up twenty nine works that feature duct tape. The highest priced, a mixed media piece called “All Roads Lead To Rome” will set you back $20,000. The least expensive, “Hippie Van“, a duct tape wallet, can be yours for $5.00. Allabouttape.com is your source for information […]
After standing on the sidelines for several years while arts and crafts types took duct tape and re-purposed it to entirely new uses, major tape manufacturers have stepped up to recognize this market. The old school model of using yards of duct tape to secure cables to the floor, sometimes taping the same mic cable […]
If you’re one of the few non-believers who think there’s nothing that duct tape can’t fix, you need to take a look at this. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry. All the news about gaffers tape, safety tapes, duct tape, vinyl tapes and new developments in tape technology. Share your comments […]
Musician Josh Grier, the leader of the band Tapes ‘N Tapes, makes sure that the tour van is equipped with lots of tape (the sticky kind) before hitting the road. The band name was born from a session of recording songs on tape, but now it’s duct tape, scotch tape and colored gaffers tape that […]
It’s tough to make a compelling video about something as mundane as duct tape, but the Duck brand of this mundane everyday product found a way. Tongal, a crowdsourcing marketing company site, was commissioned to make a video featuring Duck’s line of colored duct tapes. They came up with a video which uses a “Tron” […]
Duck brand duct tape, a ShurTech brand, has announced its 2011 Halloween Pumpkin decorating contest with a $1000 prize going to the winner. Duck Tape is promoting its Duck Tape Sheets, sheets of duct tape with peel off paper backing, as an alternative to carving pumpkins. Contest participants will decorate their pumpkins by cutting shapes […]
If you followed the somewhat dubious advice to tape over your windows in the face of last weekend’s hurricane, now you are faced with the task of getting that tape off the windows. The most common product for window taping is duct tape, and, naturally, that is one of the most difficult tapes to clean. […]