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What’s an adhesive tape carrier? An adhesive tape carrier is a thin, flexible material that carries the tape’s adhesive. You’ll also see carriers called backings because they give tape structural support, kind of like a backbone. For example, the shiny plastic film of the tape sitting on your desk is that tape’s carrier.…
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3M™ VHB™ Tape In the tape world, you hear it time and time again: VHB stands for very high bond. What’s so interesting about this tradition is it’s more folklore than fact. At 3M’s comprehensive trainings, they often point this out. VHB does not stand for anything specific. But, the fact that the…
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First Off, What Is a Differential Adhesive Tape? Differentials are typically double-sided tapes that have two different adhesives on either side of a carrier. By carrier, of course, we simply mean the structural backing of the tape. Carriers for differential tapes can be made of various materials. That said, polyester carriers tend to be…
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1) Tape Makes Your Production Process Faster In basically every way possible, tape makes your production more efficient. Here are just a few quick examples illustrating why that is. Easy handling Instant Usability Much cleaner overall Minimal training required Easy handling. Tape offers simple, flexible, and durable handling in comparison to glue.…
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The 3 Parts to a Technical Data Sheet Tape manufacturers pack essential details about each tape in documents called technical data sheets. They try to keep these files small, usually limiting them to one or two pages. Such a goal to be thorough and brief leads to a lot of abbreviations and jargon.…
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tesa® Water-Based Transfer Tapes: Great to Laminate With When it comes to tesa’s water-based transfer tapes, we’re hooked. We’ve focused before on what makes their water-based adhesive a healthier, more sustainable option. Plus, we’ve gone into how versatile they are and how they live up to tesa’s tagline of being “great to work…
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Seal Used PPE & Other Contaminated Waste with Duct Tape We’ve seen personal protective equipment (PPE) in the news a lot during this coronavirus outbreak. But yet to receive much coverage is what we’re supposed to do with used PPE as it begins to pile up. Face masks, gloves, protective suits, and several…
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Researching tape can be tough. After all, it’s built on more than a century of breakthroughs in chemistry, physics, rheology, biology, geology, etc. All the -ologies! Then there’s all the different names for tape, such as pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), self-adhesive, and self-stick. To simplify the search, here’s a breakdown of adhesive tape types by their…
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Demystifying Tape: Three Adhesive Families Pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSA). Self-adhesives. Self-stick adhesives. The technology we know as tape goes by many names. Then there are all the different products. Thinking about all the tape products to choose from, overwhelming becomes quite the understatement. There are over a hundred thousand options, with hundreds of new patents submitted…
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tesa® 88225 Made in the US at tesa’s state-of-the-art plant in Sparta, Michigan, tesa® 88225 is a must for hard-to-bond materials. It consists of a transparent, water-based acrylic adhesive that tesa designed to both conform well and bond to challenging applications. Below, we dive more into the details of these strengths, as well as the…
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