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Material
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| Backing / Base: | The carrier or backing is a relatively thin, flexible material to which an adhesive is applied. | ||
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| Cloth / Fabric | Cloth products incorporate woven cloth or a nonwoven fabric layer(s) for reinforcement, improved strength, heat resistance, or electrical properties. | ||
| Metal Foil / Sheet | Metal foil tapes have aluminum, aluminum-reinforced, and lead backings. | ||
| Paper | Paper or flatback products have a paper backing. | ||
| Plastic / Film | Plastic products incorporate one or more plastic layers, or consist of plastic film or sheets that can be clear or colored, printed or plain, single-layered or multilayered, and combined with materials such as aluminum and paper. There are two general categories of plastics: thermoplastics and thermosets. | ||
| Rubber | Products use a rubber backing in the form of a tape, film, or laminate. | ||
| Specialty / Other | Other unlisted backing materials. | ||
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| None / Non-adhesive? | Non-adhesive tapes, films, or laminates do not have an applied adhesive, but may be self-adhering. PTFE thread sealing tape is a type of non-adhesive tape. | ||
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| Pressure Sensitive (PSA)? | Pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) or contact adhesives are aggressively and permanently tacky at room temperature in dry (solvent free) form. They adhere firmly to a variety of dissimilar surfaces upon contact, requiring only the application of finger or hand pressure. PSAs do not require water, solvent, or heat activation in order to exert a strong adhesive force on materials such as paper, plastic, glass, wood, cement, and metal. PSAs have a sufficiently cohesive holding and elastic nature so that despite their aggressive tackiness, they can be manipulated by hand and removed from smooth surfaces without leaving a residue. In terms of general trade usage, leading tape manufacturers do not sanction the extension of the term “pressure sensitive” to include tapes and adhesives just because they are sticky (e.g., fly-paper), or just because they adhere or cohere. | ||
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| Thermal Bond / Activated? | Heat activated, thermally activating, or heat bond adhesives become tacky or sticky when heat is applied. The adhesive may soften, but not necessarily melt. | ||
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Configuration
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| Width | Enter the desired product width. | ||
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| Thickness | Thickness is the distance from one surface of a tape, film, or laminate backing or adhesive to the other. It is usually expressed in mils or thousandths of an inch, and is measured under slight pressure with a special gauge. | ||
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| Length | Enter the desired product length. | ||
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Features
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| Permanent | Once applied, products become permanently bonded to the substrate. | ||
| Print Receptive / Treated | The film or tape has a printed receptive surface due to an application of a special coating, treatment, primer, or adhesion promoter. Corona discharge or plasma treatments are used to enhance wettability of plastic films with lower surface energy and poor wetting characteristics. Corona treating increases the surface energy of the plastic film, which increases wettability. | ||
| Removeable | Removable tapes can be applied and then removed without damaging the substrate, but not necessarily reused or repositioned. | ||
| Repositionable | After application onto a substrate, the tape can be removed and/or repositioned indefinitely - or at least during assembly - without damaging the substrate or tape product. | ||
| UV / Weather Resistant | Weather resistant products are suitable for outdoor use and resistant to ultraviolet (UV) light, cold, heat, water or other weather conditions. | ||
| Waterproof | The material is not deteriorated by water, moisture, or water vapor. | ||
| Other | Other unlisted or proprietary features. | ||
| Search Logic: | All products with ANY of the selected attributes will be returned as matches. Leaving all boxes unchecked will not limit the search criteria for this question; products with all attribute options will be returned as matches. | ||
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