Avery Dennison, a major manufacturer of adhesive-backed label tapes has opened a new research center for adhesive development. The 25,000 square foot facility in Mill Hall. PA will focus in developing innovative new adhesives that have higher performance specifications and are more sustainable. Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry. All […]
The recent, and difficult to explain recent surge in oil prices will probably impact the cost of many tape products in the coming year. After trending down since the last round of tape price increases in the early summer, the cost of oil, a primary component in synthetic adhesives has spiked in the last 30 […]
Researchers at Northwestern University have taken the idea that lets a gecko scamper across the ceiling and applied it to adhesive development, creating a product that they call “super tape”. Using a concept that resembles the split hairs on a gecko’s feet rather than something sticky like conventional tape, they have designed an adhesive that […]
3M, one of the largest tape manufacturers in the world has lowered its earning expectations for this year. While the primary slowing was in their electronics division, they cited slowing international growth as the reason that their sales are expected to grow by 3-4 percent as opposed to earlier projections of as much as 7%. […]
Adams Magnetic Products has a new tape product that is designed to attract magnets. Unlike magnetic tape (think “refrigerator magnets” ) The Adams Magnetic product is adhesive backed and can be attached semi-permanently to signs, point of sale displays, crafts, etc. that would then be attached to something that was magnetized, like a blank display […]
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 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 […]