TheTapeworks.com is the leading provider of dance floor tape for the dance performance segment. Our vinyl dance floor tape is used all over the country for temporarily seaming of Marley-style vinyl floors. You can’t install the floor without it. It turns out that it is not really called dance floor tape, after all. In truth, […]
We’ve been selling tape for a very long time, but we still constantly come across tape that we have never heard of before. Today, it is something called “cargo pit tape”. As best we can tell, cargo pit tape is a specialty duct tape to be used in environments where material needs to be fire […]
Engineers at MIT have developed a tape that they hope can replace surgical sutures. Unlike tape that is used for closing surface wounds, this new tape works almost instantly on wet surfaces, meaning that it can be used in surgical procedures which currently require stitches. This new procedure is less stressful to damaged tissue and […]
There is something about duct tape that leads to the compilation of lots of “facts” about this ubiquitous product. In the day of fake news, it is easy to put forth something as “fact”, particularly when it is impossible to actually confirm. Somebody (anybody? everybody?) claims that the amount of duct tape sold each year […]
We’ve come to count on TheWirecutter.com, a New York Times web site that reviews all things electronic. If we are getting ready to make a major purpose, we count on Wirecutter reviews to help guide us. Imagine our surprise when TheWirecutter.com decided to try to pick the best duct tape. Their testing was thorough and […]
One of the objective ways to measure how “sticky” a tape is is a test called “adhesion to steel’. In this test, a length of tape is used to pick up a piece of stainless steel of a known weight. The greater the weight, the stickier the tape. This is a very useful number when […]
No more worthy a source for good tape information than Shurtape lets us know that duct tape is not the right product to use on ductwork. In their Tape University series, the experts at Shurtape say that using utility grade duct tape to seal, repair or couple sheet metal duct work will fail, often in […]
TheTapeworks.com, an online provider of tape products from multipl manufacturers, dates back to the 1990’s and some of the earliest e-commerce sites. Today, TheTapeworks.com debuts a brand new version of the site, easier to navigate, more products and options, and tape prices that have remained unchanged since 2011. Check them out by clicking here.
Somehow, the manufacturing and disposal of adhesive-backed tapes manages to continue to stay under the “green” radar. A product, that for the most part, is designed to be used once, discarded and then replaced with new tape is a great business model, but hardly one that recognizes the need for sustainability. There does seem to […]
Instead of having to use heavy (and expensive) aluminum tape for protecting parts during production, the aerospace industry is implementing a new tape product from BAE that could save millions of dollars. This new product is made from lightweight vinyl, not aluminum, and it has an adhesive that doesn’t leave any residue. Click here to […]