On an automatic case sealer, the tape is part of the machine. Operators blame the sealer for jams; often the sealer is fine and the roll is wrong — wrong core, wrong outer diameter, wrong unwind tension. Specifying tape for machine application is a different job than specifying tape for a hand gun. This guide covers the four specs that decide whether the machine runs or stops. 1. Roll geomet...
The global plastics treaty is moving again. After the delegations' meeting in Bangkok on September 27–30, 2026, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee chair is expected to release a second iteration of his 'Aid to Negotiations' text ahead of INC-5.4, and the resumed negotiating session (INC-5.4) is now on the calendar for March 2027. No final treaty exists yet, but the direction of trav...
Every carton you ship is a billboard you already paid for. Custom printed tape puts your logo, handling marks, or brand colors on every box at a fraction of the cost of printed cartons — but only if you specify it correctly. Washed-out prints, off-brand colors, and pallets of unusable tape usually trace back to the same handful of specification mistakes. This guide walks through them in the ...
The cheapest quote is rarely the cheapest tape. When three suppliers quote “the same” carton sealing tape at three different prices, the specs behind those prices are usually not the same at all — different units, different test methods, different things left unsaid. Some of it is innocent; some of it is not. Either way, here is how to normalize competing quotes before you compar...
Switching tape suppliers is where procurement savings go to leak. The new tape is cheaper on paper, then the trial rolls behave differently, the line operators complain, mixed inventory causes confusion, and three months later purchasing quietly reorders from the old supplier at the old price. None of that is inevitable. A structured transition — qualify, overlap, brief, lock — gets yo...
Filament tape looks simple — a plastic film with glass fibers running through it — so buyers often spec it the way they buy commodity packing tape: pick a tensile number, pick a width, done. The failures that follow are rarely the tape’s fault. They trace back to the same five specification mistakes, and each one is cheaper to fix on paper than in the field. Here they are, in the...
Most case sealers are not bought wrong because the machine is bad. They are bought wrong because the buyer sized for an average day and then met a peak season. A machine that idles in September becomes the bottleneck in November: changeovers eat the shift, operators revert to hand taping, and the "automation" you paid for sits bypassed at the end of the line. Peak-season planning starts with three...
A carton can seal perfectly in your warehouse and still arrive opened, crushed, or quietly re-taped. That is not a mystery. Between your bench and the destination it gets stacked, dropped, trucked, put in a container, unloaded, and handled again — through humidity and temperature swings a domestic shipment never sees, and sometimes sitting at the bottom of a stack for weeks. Short version: s...
Bundling is where filament tape either earns its reputation or loses it. A bundle of pipes, lumber, cables, or appliances is not a carton: it has no box to hold its shape, its weight shifts when it is lifted, and its edges are often sharp, round, or both. The tape in a bundle is not a seal — it is the structure. Get the direction, the wrap count, and the contact points right, and a heavy bun...
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