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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you’re one of the few non-believers who think there’s nothing that duct tape can’t fix, you need to 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 developments in tape technology. Share your comments […]
Musician Josh Grier, the leader of the band Tapes ‘N Tapes, makes sure that the tour van is equipped with lots of tape (the sticky kind) before hitting the road. The band name was born from a session of recording songs on tape, but now it’s duct tape, scotch tape and colored gaffers tape that […]
It’s tough to make a compelling video about something as mundane as duct tape, but the Duck brand of this mundane everyday product found a way. Tongal, a crowdsourcing marketing company site, was commissioned to make a video featuring Duck’s line of colored duct tapes. They came up with a video which uses a “Tron” […]
Duck brand duct tape, a ShurTech brand, has announced its 2011 Halloween Pumpkin decorating contest with a $1000 prize going to the winner. Duck Tape is promoting its Duck Tape Sheets, sheets of duct tape with peel off paper backing, as an alternative to carving pumpkins. Contest participants will decorate their pumpkins by cutting shapes […]
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 […]
We periodically post interesting articles about artists whose primary medium is tape. Their work is interesting, but seldom memorable and a lot of it seems to bridge the line between art and craft. Not so for the newest exhibition at Raleigh N.C.’s new Contemporary Art Museum. CAM Raleigh is featuring pieces by Texas artist Rebecca […]