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November 11, 2020 Top 4 Industrial Uses of Adhesive Tapes

Industrial adhesive tapes are used to bond components, join materials, offer cohesion and fasten the application process.

In today’s period, industrial adhesive tapes are used in different industries to bond components, join materials, offer great cohesion, and fasten the application process. Indeed, several high-performance industrial types are available in the market to serve industrial products. To learn more about the uses, read the following:

#1: Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is a wide sector that consists of multiple organizations, companies, and manufacturing units that are directly or indirectly involved with motor vehicles. These entities are somehow related to the designing, development, manufacturing, assembling, marketing, and selling of different vehicles. Very often, it is said that the automotive industry is the largest one in terms of revenue all over the world. By this, you can expect how much work industrial tapes have to do in the automotive sector.

It is noticed that roughly 800,000-900,000 square meters area full of adhesive tapes can be utilized to serve this sector. This much of the adhesive tapes are used in total every day to enable and assemble the 2 to 5 km cables that run inside a new car. You can say that up to 50 adhesive tapes can be easily utilized in one new car that you get to see traveling around.

Adhesive tapes are mostly used to assemble different components to protect the production line process. They are used to deal with production-related holes or hold trims/sills. These tapes are often utilized to grasp the screws and studs so that seats and dashboards can easily hold onto their places. Many design units make use of industrial tapes during painting the motor vehicles.

#2: Construction Industry

Industrial adhesive tapes are very useful when it comes to constructive bonding in the structure or building industry. It wouldn’t be wrong here to mention that most of the components in modern design buildings are fixed with industrial tapes.

If you are wondering what are the probable uses of adhesive tapes in the construction industry? Then, you can easily find a lot of uses in the elevators, windows, show windows, doors, glass partitions, skyscraper facades, and solar elements of the building.

Although it is clear that designs, materials, construction strategies, and other requirements depend on the vision of your architect, however when it comes to the development of the buildings, adhesive industrial tapes have to offer multiple technical solutions. These tapes are best-known to provide needed flexibility, durability, and faster processing, in bonding, designing, and developing the buildings.

#3: Electronics Industry

The electronics industry is one of those industries that can acquire unlimited benefits from adhesive tapes. It is said that adhesive tapes offer great support to the electronics industry and work side-by-side for many years. For instance, tesa adhesive tapes are enormously used inside smartphones. You may not know this, but each type you swipe right or left on your smartphone, a special adhesive tape is doing its miracles layers by layers. Understandably, these tapes are firmly holding the layers so that the screen can be together, clear, transparent, and look optically beautiful. These tapes function in a manner that can block light and direct where it is needed the most.

Thin adhesive tapes can be utilized in the manufacturing and designing of many electronics. They play an immense role in making digital devices like laptops, smartwatches, digital cameras, navigation gadgets, communication appliances for motor vehicles, and even LED televisions.

#4: Household & Appliances Industry

Have you ever heard about the word ‘white goods industry?’ Well, the term is employed to refer to an industry that deals in large electrical goods that are mostly used for domestic reasons. These are household appliances, but they are usually very large in size, bulky, and heavy in weight. Like washing machines, refrigerators, microwaves, spinners, stoves, cooking hobs, etc.

Since there is a great demand when it comes to the objects of the appliances industry, adhesive tapes are there to support the sector. Traditional adhesive tapes are used to ensure the integration of electronic components during the designing & manufacturing phase. Special adhesive tapes are best applied for miniature control panels and new materials.

Currently, industrial tape manufacturers are making pressure-sensitive self-adhesive tapes that can be used in the manufacturing of modern refrigerators. These special adhesive tapes work well with the touchscreens of a refrigerator. In addition, double-sided tapes are used to keep the parts of the dispenser units, control panels, and decorative glass panes tight and safe. Also, tapes balance the energy for these parts.

 

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