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OSHA Tape Color Code Explained

OSHA Tape Color Code Explained

Vinyl tape has long been the choice for marking areas in a work space that have specific task designations or represent hazardous areas. OSHA (The Occupational Safety & Health Administration) has created a code system to indicate what specific colors applied to work areas (primarily the floor) mean to workers. Yellow-Marks aisles and spaces between […]

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Tape Converters “Stuck” In The Middle

Tape Converters “Stuck” In The Middle

In our ongoing discussion about tape pricing and the havoc caused by raw material costs, there is a group of companies caught between the manufacturers (companies like Shurtape) and distributors (that’s what we do). These companies are called converters and they provide the essential service of “converting” large rolls of tape called “jumbos” into tape […]

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Floor Marking-How They Do It In The Big Leagues

Floor Marking-How They Do It In The Big Leagues

Here is a great article about how floor marking is done in major industrial facilities. Floor marking is done for safety and organizational issues and can make a great contribution to how a facility operates. If you need to do some floor marking of your own, click here to get started. Allabouttape.com is your source […]

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Five Tips For Marking A Floor In The Workplace

Five Tips For Marking A Floor In The Workplace

Rather than using paint, many industrial and other workplaces now use tape for floor layout. Use these tips when lining your floor. -Use long lengths when practical. The fewer ends and splices a tape line has, the less likely it is to peel up -Make sure the tape you use is intended for long term […]

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Serious About Electrical Taping? Here’s How To Do It Right

Serious About Electrical Taping? Here’s How To Do It Right

A publication from 3M, the giant international tape manufacturer, takes the process of taping with electrical tape seriously. If  you want to tape it right, 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 […]

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Improved Glow Tape Set To Ship

Improved Glow Tape Set To Ship

After solving a problem with their Pro Glow glow tape formula that caused the tape to be brittle, Pro Tapes and Specialties is set to start shipping the new improved version of this product this week. The latest version of this iconic product features a more pliable and easier to handle backing with extended glow […]

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Making A Halloween Costume? Don’t Forget The Glow Tape

Making A Halloween Costume? Don’t Forget The Glow Tape

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 […]

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Now They Tell Us

Now They Tell Us

I spent yesterday afternoon driving through eastern North Carolina, one of the areas hit most heavily by hurricane Irene.  All along the main highways, stores with large glass windows and doors had tape stretched from side to side, apparently to minimize flying glass if the windows were broken. According to the most recent recommendation from […]

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Rescue Tape Goes Fishing

Rescue Tape Goes Fishing

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 […]

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Last Week-Light Tape     This Week-Dark Tape

Last Week-Light Tape This Week-Dark Tape

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 […]

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