adhesive tape

Surgical Tape-Here’s What Makes It Work

Surgical Tape-Here’s What Makes It Work

Surgical adhesive tapes may appear similar to other cloth tapes, but there are subtle differences in their manufacturing process that make them appropriate for a very delicate job. Use of rayon, silk or some other non-irritating (hypoallergenic) fiber for the tape backing is necessary to minimize skin irritation. The material also needs to be able […]

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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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The “Raw Material” Argument is Rubbing Us Raw

The “Raw Material” Argument is Rubbing Us Raw

If you read my post yesterday, then perhaps you noted a bit of optimism.  Hoping that a strong downturn in the cost of the raw materials used to make tape products would ease price pressures seemed like a bright light at the end of a year long tunnel.  As a distributor of cloth tapes like […]

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Tape-It’s Made Like This

Tape-It’s Made Like This

There have been lots of technological advances since the invention of adhesive-backed tape in 1925. Click here to see how it’s done today.     (Thank you , Discovery Channel) Allabouttape.com is your source for information about the adhesive tape industry.

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