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Understanding Adhesive Failures

Adhesive bonded joints, whether made using pressure-sensitive tapes or liquid adhesives, can experience failure. Oftentimes, the comments we hear are, “It’s not sticking,” “It’s coming …

Guide to Spooling Tape Products

What Is Spooling? Spooling is a process where rolls of tape products can be spliced together and wound onto a common core, similarly to fishing …

Understanding the Effect of Coefficient of Thermal Expansion on Tape Products

The coefficient of thermal expansion is used to understand the rate at which a certain material expand as a function of temperature. This understanding is …

Understanding Silicone Pressure-Sensitive Tapes

In the two preceding blogs, we discussed the historical importance of rubber based pressure-sensitive adhesives and their continued use in today’s applications as well as …

Understanding Rubber-Based Pressure Sensitive Adhesives in Tape Products

History In 1845, a surgeon named Dr. Horace Day made the first crude surgical tape by combining India rubber, pine gum, turpentine, litharge (a yellow …

Understanding Acrylic Pressure Sensitive Adhesives in Tape Products

I had great trepidation in writing a blog post on this topic. Firstly, acrylic pressure-sensitive technology is so broad in scope that the relevant information …

Light-Weighting with Adhesives and Tapes

Light-weighting is a popular topic in a variety of industries including transportation, general industrial applications, and even the building and construction market. In transportation applications, the …

Understanding Pressure Sensitive Tape Properties

When it comes to pressure sensitive adhesive tapes, there isn’t a convenient single rating system for how “strong” the tape might be. The adhesive systems …

Advantages of Curtain Walls

Curtain walls are a fairly common and prominent feature in modern buildings. Designed to protect the building from the outside elements (such as weather), curtain …

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