What is Tape Converting Equipment and Why Do We Use Them?

Industries Our Equipment Serves

Our converting equipment for tapes and adhesives has been trusted by a number of manufacturing professionals across a broad range of industries, including:

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• Consumer Goods: Our machinery offers the ideal solution for creating household tapes and adhesives for direct consumer purchase.
• Health Care: Manufacturers of medical adhesive and tape products find the solutions they deserve in our state-of-the-art equipment.
• Construction: Our converting machines for tapes and adhesives help create a number of construction and building products.
• Automotive:Tape is used during the production and assembly of many automobiles and light duty trucks.
• Electronics: Tape is often used in the electronics industry for fasteners and various wire runs.

No matter what industry your tape and adhesive manufacturing needs fall under, our converting equipment offers the ideal solution you need to increase efficiency and productivity in your production line. Call our team at (704) 350- or request a quote online to learn more about our converting equipment for tapes and adhesives!

Those having some familiarity with adhesive tape converting may recognize the pun in this headline as tape converting primarily refers to the transformation of tape rolls into finished adhesive tape products. Converting specialists combine adhesive tapes with materials such as polyesters, foams and felts to develop highly specialized products. The converting process also involves cutting these custom adhesive tape products to precise specifications.

Adhesive-tape manufacturers like 3M, Berry Plastics, Avery and Bemis produce their products in large, continuous rolls for convenient transport and handling. Converters thread these rolls, or webs, through processing machines like printing presses and laminating or slitting machines. The converter works closely with application engineers to select the proper adhesive product and then customizes it to meet specific design needs. During this process several questions are considered including:

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• Will the adhesive be applied automatically or by hand?
• Are the design tolerances critical?
• Will the adhesive be subjected to temperature extremes (heat, humidity, UV rays)?

Transforming a large roll of adhesive into an engineered product involves extensive collaboration between the OEM engineers and the converting suppliers engineers and machine operators. In a collaborative effort they determine the unique properties and dimensions of each adhesive product.

Some of the most common ways that adhesive tape, felt or foam can be converted include:

• Slitting and Rewind SlittingThis process takes the adhesive manufacturers large rolls and cuts them to specific widths. They can then be applied robotically or by hand.
• Die cuttingThe adhesive tape gets fed through a press and cut with dies to produce a custom adhesive part. Rotary die cutting is used for large volume orders, while steel rule die cutting is used for smaller custom jobs.
• LaminatingThe process of joining the adhesive to other liners and films.

Can-Do National Tape has been converting pressure- and heat-sensitive adhesive and non-adhesive tape products for over decade, producing prototype parts based on technical drawings and material specifications. Relationships we have established in the tape manufacturing industry allow us to source the best and most economical raw materials to meet application needs. Our knowledgeable sales representatives and a responsive production workforce ensure customer satisfaction. Contact us to discuss your project!

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