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 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 […]
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 […]
Whatech.com, an online business technology web site is predicting that the global pressure sensitve tape market will see a strong second half of 2015. The report specifically cites new eco-friendly and biodegradable adhesives as factors driving growth. You can read the report by clicking here.
Demand for pressure sensitive tape continues to grow, and is now projected to exceed 50 billion square meters by 2018. Enough to cover the earth? Not quite. The earth’s surface is estimated to be 510 million square kilometers. Still, that is a lot of tape!
European tape maker Certo Plast is setting up shop in Las Cruces, New Mexico and will bring 100 jobs to the community. Certo Plast hopes that proximity to the border will make exports of their products to Mexico easier. The company is receiving $150,000.00 in state and local incentives to facilitate the move. Read more […]
Pro Tapes and Specialties, the maker of Pro Gaffer gaffers tape (and lots of other tape products) operates a tape conversion facility in North Brunswick New Jersey. This is where large rolls of tape, called “jumbos”, are converted into all the useful sizes that you use every day. Click here for a video about the […]
Pro Tapes and Specialties, a tape converter and manufacturer located in North Brunswick, NJ, has announced the promotion of long time employee Dennis Mirabella to the position of Director of their Arts and Entertainment business unit. Mirabella, who has been with the company for 32 years, will now oversee Pro Tapes international network of dealers […]
While electrical tape comes in a rainbow of colors, the most common, by far, is black. Black vinyl tape is used world wide by electrical and maintenance workers for insulating cable and electrical connections. The primary reason that black is the most common color is that black vinyl tape can be made more resistant to […]