A little extra time spent on Halloween costume design can greatly improve your child’s safety in the dark. Glow tape is designed to glow for hours after just a few minutes of exposure to light. A few pieces of strategically place tape makes a costume and the child in it much more visible in the […]
Everybody has head the tales of how duct tape saved the day and helped a crippled Apollo spacecraft make it back to earth. Well, move over duct tape. Gaffers tape is now the favorite for space explorers all over the known universe. Josh Taylor and Edward Bishop used gaffers tape to hold together the payload […]
If you know much about tape, you are aware that there are lots more names for tape than actual tapes that exist. This is particularly true for a product known generically as “dance floor tape“. This name was derived from the use of portable dance floors, primarily used for ballet and modern dance, that are […]
French tire manufacturer Michelin has partnered with renewable fuels company Amyris to develop rubber that is made from renewable materials. The two companies are working to develop renewable isoprene, a chemical used in the making of synthetic rubber. Working from raw materials found in renewable organic feedstocks, the partnership hopes to be able to bring […]
The Duct Tape Guys, Tim Nyberg and Jim Berg, are appearing at home and garden shows this fall to spread the gospel of duct tape. Click here if you are interested in having The Duct Tape Guys appear at your show. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry. All the news […]
The Rolatube, an invention by British scientists, can be rolled up like gaffers tape and then extended into a rigid material with the strength of steel. Imagine a measuring tape that starts out as cloth and ends up as steel. Using carbon fiber composites and thermoplastics, Rolatube can be fashioned into lots of different items […]
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 […]
