Adhesive Tape Products
Magnum Tapes & Films offers broad-ranging capabilities in pressure-sensitive adhesive tape manufacturing. We specialize in Foam Carrier and General-Purpose tapes, as well as tapes for Abrasives, Foam Bonding, Gaskets, Extrusions, Graphics, Crepe, Automotive, and other specialty tapes. Our tape products include rubber—and acrylic-based adhesive systems with various thicknesses and physical properties tailored to your application.
Our state-of-the-art facility allows us to manufacture high-quality adhesive tape and film products while affording us the flexibility to be responsive and agile, with excellent product value and outstanding service.
PSA Tapes
Pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape is a permanently sticky material on one or more sides. The adhesive needs to be tacky at room temperature without needing heat activation, water, or a solvent. Once compressed, the pressure-sensitive tape will stick to most surface types.
Pressure-sensitive tapes have multiple uses and applications. Determine the tape usage to assess the properties needed. For example, some tape solutions work best on rough surfaces, while others will stick better to smooth surfaces.
Adhesive Tape Usage
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes have multiple uses, including:
- Package and box sealing: packing, masking, and scotch tape are all examples of pressure-sensitive tape. They are commonly used to seal boxes or close envelopes.
- Electrical work: Electrical tape is a type of pressure-sensitive tape that insulates wires and cables.
- Athletic gear: Athletic tape lets athletes grip their equipment better, such as a tennis racket or hockey stick.
- Heat containment: Pressure-sensitive tape can help insulate materials or protect against heat exposure.
- Surface protection: The tape can protect surfaces from moisture damage or exposure to ultraviolet rays.
- Sound dampening: Some pressure-sensitive tape effectively blocks or minimizes sounds.
- Medical uses: Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape also has medical uses. Adhesive bandages and the tape used to hold the gauze in place around a wound are examples.
What are the Advantages of Adhesive Tape?
Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape offers multiple advantages over other types of adhesive materials. Some reasons to use pressure-sensitive tape include the following:
- Bonds a wide range of materials: Pressure-sensitive tape can join various materials together, including rough surfaces to smooth ones or smooth surfaces to other smooth surfaces. The tape can successfully bond dissimilar materials.
- Improves comfort: The tape can help improve comfort in several ways. It absorbs vibrations, reduces sound, and provides insulation. Homeowners can use this tape to seal off drafty areas of their homes, allowing for better temperature control.
- Reduces energy use: Pressure-sensitive tape can help reduce energy usage, lowering heating or cooling bills when used to seal homes and buildings.
- Easy to use: Pressure-sensitive tape requires only a tiny amount of pressure to adhere, making it much easier to use than adhesives that need a solvent, water, or heat activation.
- Offers aesthetic appeal: Pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is available in a range of colors and can be printed with logos, making it a more attractive option than other types of fasteners.
Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Tape Construction
Most of Magnum's tape products are manufactured in one of these typical configurations:
- Single-coated: Single-coated tape has adhesive on one side. A release liner covers the adhesive side of the tape until it's ready for use.
- Double-coated: Double-coated tapes have adhesive and release liners on each side. Depending on the tape's use, the adhesive may be the same on each side or different.
- Differential double-coated: Differential double-coated tape has two different types of adhesive on each side.
- Self-wound: Self-wound tape has adhesive on one side but no release liner. Packaging tape is a typical example of self-wound tape.
- Transfer tape/free film: Transfer tape or free film is an adhesive film applied to a release liner. The tape adheres well to irregular surfaces and is often used to create vinyl decals.
Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Tape Features
We can produce adhesive tape products with various features depending on your needs.
Release Liners
Standard and custom-release liner options are available that best suit your specific application:
- Several thicknesses and release factors are available
- Single-liner or double-liner construction is available on transfer tapes
Adhesive Options
When manufacturing pressure-sensitive tape, we use three types of adhesives. The type of adhesive that best meets your needs depends on the application.
1. Permanent Rubber
Rubber is the most cost-effective adhesive for pressure-sensitive tape. It can be made from natural rubber or synthetic material. Each type has unique benefits and drawbacks. Synthetic rubber tends to adhere to surfaces more firmly, creating a permanent seal.
Since rubber isn't naturally sticky, resins get added to the material to produce tackiness.
2. Removable Rubber
Removable rubber adhesives are typically made from natural rubbers, which have a shorter life span and poorer heat performance than synthetic rubbers. You can easily reposition tapes with removable rubber adhesives or peel the tape off cleanly when it's no longer needed.
3. Permanent, Low-Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Acrylic
Acrylic adhesives typically have a longer life span than rubber. Acrylic adhesives produce a tape with higher resistance to wear and tear than rubber PSA tapes. The adhesive bond is also stronger with acrylic than with rubber.
Unlike rubber, acrylic is naturally tacky, but adding a tackifier enhances its adhesive properties.
Two types of acrylic adhesive are available:
- Solvent: Solvent acrylic tape is tackier than rubber but doesn't bond well to low-surface energy (LSE) plastics.
- Emulsion: Emulsion acrylic is more cost-effective than solvent acrylic but less water-resistant.
Slitting
Magnum has the capacity to slit PSA tapes and films to suit your needs:
- Finished slit widths range from ¼" to 60"
- Finished roll lengths range from 50 ft. to 3,000 ft.
- Finished roll diameters up to 18"
Spooling
- ¼" wide up to 1"
- Up to 12,000 ft. spools
Rolls Sizes and Lengths
Magnum has the flexibility to offer a selection of stock products as well as custom and non-standard sizes:
- Standard roll widths of 44", 50", 54", and 60"
- Standard roll lengths of 750 ft. to 3,000 ft.
- The standard core size is 3"
Rubber and Acrylic Tape Manufacturers Packaging Options
Magnum Tapes & Films offers various packaging tape options based on your order needs:
- Multiple pallet sizes are available to accommodate different roll widths
- Sturdy and durable horizontal and vertical packaging options
- Each vertically packaged pallet contains nine rolls
- Private and custom labeling options are available
- The narrow-slit product is poly-bagged and slip-sheeted in carton packaging
- Pallets are stretch-wrapped for additional protection
Ask about our economical and environmentally friendly returnable packaging options.
Our Adhesive Tape Options
Magnum Tapes & Films produces several pressure-sensitive adhesive tape ranges made with rubber or acrylic adhesive. We can work with you to help you choose the best option. Our PSA series includes the following:
100 Series is a removable rubber that is ideal for masking tape applications. The heat-tolerant crepe paper liner, combined with our removable rubber, results in a tape ideal for critical paint masking applications in the automotive, industrial, and specialty vehicle sectors that require firm grip and performance.
200 Series is an aggressive rubber foam bonding adhesive that adheres to ether, ester polyurethane, and polyethylene foams. This adhesive is more conformable to a wide range of irregular and uneven substrates. It sticks to anything rough.
300 Series rubber is used for mounting tapes in graphic arts, digital printing, POP displays, and wide-format mounting. This low-surface-energy rubber has a high bonding strength, making it ideal for gator foam and gator board. It provides high-quality and long-lasting performance for demanding image-mounting applications.
400 Series is a versatile permanent rubber tape ideal for smooth surfaces where heavy adhesive thickness is not required. It offers the right balance of economy and performance. It has excellent bonding to polyethylene, polyisoprene, polystyrene, polypropylene, EPDM, metals, papers, and other flat surfaces. It has good dimensional stability with excellent die-cutting performance. It has very high shear properties and high peel performance. Available with a tighter release liner, it is ideal for converting.
500 Series is a versatile foam bonding adhesive for polyethylene, rubber, and EPDM foams. It has aggressive initial tack with excellent peel and surface wet-out and is superb for irregular and hard-to-stick surfaces such as polyethylene foam. A PET carrier provides exceptional dimensional stability in die-cutting with a standard lay-flat liner. It is also excellent for case applications and is available as a transfer tape.
600 Series is an excellent option for bonding complex materials and surfaces such as polyurethane foams, TPO materials, ABS, polyethylene, polypropylene, and powdered coated materials. It is a standard lay-flat liner with excellent wet-out properties and a conformable low surface energy adhesive. Low VOC properties meet JIS-A 1901 standards.
800 Series is a versatile permanent acrylic transfer tape. It is a stiff adhesive with good die-cutting performance. Excellent adhesion to plasticized PVCs, metals, and LSE plastics. Very conformable to irregular surfaces with superior outdoor performance. The adhesive has high shear, moderate peel, and high-temperature performance. Low VOC 800 Series properties meet JIS-A 1901 standards, are acid-free, and have a neutral pH for archival applications. Meets the ISO 18916 standard for photographic archiving.
900 Series tapes are differential tapes with different adhesives on each side. We can mix and match our rubber and acrylic adhesives to fit a specific need. They are available in:
- Rubber/Rubber
- Acrylic/Acrylic
- Acrylic/Rubber
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ADHESIVE |
KEY ATTRIBUTES |
DESCRIPTION |
100
SERIES
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Masking Tape |
100 Series is a removable rubber that is ideal for masking tape applications. The heat-tolerant crepe paper liner, combined with our removable rubber, results in a tape ideal for critical paint masking applications in the automotive, industrial, and specialty vehicle sectors that require strong grip and performance. |
200
SERIES
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High Tack
Rubber |
200 Series is an aggressive rubber foam bonding adhesive that adheres to ether, ester polyurethane, and polyethylene foams. This adhesive is more conformable to a wide range of irregular and uneven substrates. It sticks to anything rough. |
300
SERIES
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Low Surface Energy
Rubber |
300 Series rubber is used for mounting tapes for graphic arts, digital printing, POP displays, and wide format mounting. This low surface energy rubber has a high bonding strength, making it ideal for gator foam and gator board. It provides high-quality and long-lasting performance for demanding image-mounting applications. |
400
SERIES
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General Purpose Rubber
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400 Series is a versatile permanent rubber tape, ideal for smooth surfaces where heavy adhesive thickness is not required. The right balance of economy and performance. Excellent bonding to polyethylene, polyisoprene, polystyrene, polypropylene, EPDM, metals, papers, and other flat surfaces. Good dimensional stability with excellent die-cutting performance. Very high shear properties and high peel performance. Available with a tighter release liner, it is ideal for converting. |
500
SERIES
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High Tack
Rubber |
500 Series is a versatile foam bonding adhesive for polyethylene, rubber, and EPDM foams. Aggressive initial tack with excellent peel and surface wet-out. Superb adhesive for irregular and hard-to-stick surfaces such as polyethylene foam. A PET carrier provides exceptional dimensional stability in die-cutting with a standard lay-flat liner. Excellent adhesive for case applications and is available as a transfer tape. |
600
SERIES
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Low Surface Energy
Acrylic |
600 Series is a great option for bonding difficult materials and surfaces such as polyurethane foams, TPO materials, ABS, polyethylene, polypropylene, and powdered coated materials. The 600 Series is a conformable LSE adhesive with excellent wet-out properties. Standard lay-flat liner. Low VOC properties meet JIS-A 1901 standards. |
800
SERIES
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High Shear
Acrylic |
800 Series is a versatile permanent acrylic transfer tape. It is a stiff adhesive with a good die-cutting performance. Excellent adhesion to plasticized PVCs, metals, and LSE plastics. Very conformable to irregular surfaces with superior outdoor performance. The adhesive has high shear with moderate peel and high-temperature performance. Low VOC 800 Series properties meet JIS-A 1901 standards, are acid-free, and have a neutral pH for archival applications. Meets the ISO 18916 standard for photographic archiving. |
900
SERIES
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Rubber/Rubber
Acrylic/Rubber
Acrylic/Acrylic
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Differential |
900 Series tapes are differential tapes with different adhesives on each side. We can mix and match our rubber and acrylic adhesives to fit a specific need. They are available in Rubber/Rubber, Acrylic/Acrylic, and Acrylic/Rubber configurations. |
How to Choose the Right Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Tape
The tape suitable for your application depends on various factors. When choosing pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, consider the following:
- The surface: Certain adhesive types bond to others more readily. For example, look for tape that sticks to foam if you need to adhere something to foam. Also, pay attention to the texture of the surfaces and choose a tape designed for rough or smooth exteriors, as required.
- The conditions: Consider the situations where the product will be used. If you need to use the tape outdoors, choose a product that can withstand hot and cold temperatures, wind exposure, and moisture exposure.
- The use: Think of your goal for using the tape. Are you using it to seal a package or join two surfaces together?
- Permanence: Decide whether you need a removable or permanent adhesive. Removable adhesives don't have the bonding strength that permanent ones do, but they can also cause damage when you remove them.
- Size: Do you need wide adhesive tape or something thinner?
Top PSA Tape FAQs
- What is PSA tape? PSA tape refers to pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. It can be used for a large variety of commercial applications, including packaging, electrical work, medical use, and athletic equipment.
- What is pressure-sensitive tape? Pressure-sensitive tape is another name for PSA tape. It is a flexible adhesive tape that will adhere to different surfaces when pressure is applied.
- How to use pressure-sensitive tape? Pressure-sensitive tape is extremely easy to use.
- Prepare the surface to which you will be applying the tape by ensuring it is clean and dry.
- Ensure all dust or other contaminants are removed from the surface
- Apply the tape firmly and apply pressure to the tape.
- What is a pressure-sensitive tape used for? There are a variety of uses for PSA tape, including:
- Packaging and box sealing
- Electrical work
- Athletic gear
- Heat containment
- surface protection
- Sound dampening
- Medical uses
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