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Rescue Tape, the emergency silicone repair tape, has announced that sport fishing legend Ronnie Kovach will be their official spokesperson. Rescue Tape will feature an appearance by Kovach at this weeks ICAST fishing expo in Las Vegas. Rescue Tape sees lots of growth opportunities in the the sports fishing industry where quick and reliable repairs […]
About this time every year, we started to get mysterious calls about an extra wide version of a product we sell called bifilament tape. It is a vinyl tape reinforced with fiberglass strands and our primary customer use was as a bundling tape. When the number of calls became so steady that we could no […]
3M 3903 vinyl duct tape is an all vinyl (no cloth reinforcing fibers) alternative to what is normally considered duct tape. The 3M product is an embossed vinyl film offered in seven colors. It uses the same adhesive (natural rubber) as standard duct tape and can be hand torn. It is considered an economy grade […]
Those that sell tape products know that there are opportunities both for sales and for confusion by applying multiple names to the same product. A perfect example of this is a product we sell that is known by its generic name “printable kraft paper tape“. This product is made from kraft paper (“kraft” refers to […]
I’ve been fascinated by a product called silicone sealing tape since I first came across it several years ago at a boat show. It is branded under lots of names including “Atomic Tape”, “Rescue Tape”, “Tommy Tape”, “Stretch & Seal” and lots of others. In theory, it creates a bond not with adhesive, but simply […]
When you sell a “real” item, something with mass and size, then you need an infrastructure to deliver it, store it and sell it. On one hand, that’s a good thing, because it means that it can’t be endlessly replicated like a recorded song or a printed page. The obvious downside is the cost of […]
3M Kind Removal Silicone Tape makes use of new silicone-based adhesive technology to improve the balance between securement (adhesion) and gentleness. Creating a product that allows medical technicians to reduce the trauma of removing medical tape means the likelihood of tape related injury is decreased and patient discomfort is minimiaed. 3 M will introduce this […]
My posting on light tape last week was about a high tech way of providing “glow in the dark” tape capabilities that never required recharging of the tape. Light Dims is a product that strives to do just the opposite and in an extremly low tech way. The proliferation of LED indicator lights means that […]
Light Tape, a product from Electro-Lumix Lighting Corp. has created a tape product that looks and handles like glow tape, but has an actual electric component that means it does not have to be periodically recharged by radiant light in order to continue to provide photo luminesence. Combining a product that can be cut, tent […]