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Clear tape is an indispensable product that is can be found in households and workplaces across the country, offering literally thousands of different uses. Homes up and down the UK are guaranteed to have a drawer somewhere with a roll of clear tape hidden away in it.
For many years now clear tape has been used to help with tasks such as wrapping presents and making simple repairs, with Sellotape becoming the most famous and widely used of its kind on the market and even finding its way into the Oxford English Dictionary.
With online shopping becoming so popular in the modern age, clear tape is now in increasing demand as a means of packaging products to be dispatched safely and effectively to customers ordering their goods from the internet. As a result, a number of thicker, heavy duty clear tapes are now available that are designed specifically for this purpose. The advantage clear tape offers over brown tape is that it looks much tidier and won't cover up any useful information or markings that have been added to the package.
There are all manner of different clear tape products on the market today, including double-sided clear tape, low noise clear tape, even biodegradable clear tape. Some come complete with dispensers, ensuring the clear tape doesn't get tangled or the end doesn't get lost!
This web site features lots of useful information on clear tape, along with some helpful tips on the multitude of clear tape products now available to purchase on line.
Different Types of Clear Tape
The Uses of Clear Tape
There are many different types of clear tape available on the market, and clear tape has a wide range of uses both commercially and in the home. The concept of clear tape as we know it today was conceived during the 1930's, but was not produced in mass until the 1960's.
Clear tape in its original form generally refers to Sellotape, though there are now many different varieties of clear tape. Sellotape is a clear adhesive tape which has a variety of uses in both the home and office. We are all familiar with using Sellotape for wrapping presents - one of the most common home uses of clear tape.
Beyond the basic Sellotape, the most common form of clear tape these days is the more heavy duty option, which is generally used for packaging purposes. Clear tape for packaging use can vary in width (ranging from 38mm to 75mm, though there are even wider clear tapes available for industrial purposes), the most common packaging clear tape is 50mm wide.
Clear tape is incredibly widely used commercially for packaging purposes; tens of thousands of parcels are delivered every week in the UK and clear tape is often the choice as it has the big advantage of not covering any information on the packaging itself, such as addresses or product information and pictures. Despite the widespread commercial use of clear tape for packaging purposes, it is also a common site in the home for when people need to wrap a package of their own or just need a slightly heavier duty clear tape.
Some clear tape comes in an even heavier duty option than described above. Clear tape of this kind is reinforced and often capable of use outdoors as it can be weatherproof and extremely adhesive. Such clear tape can be used as a temporary (or permanent!) fixing when some material has been torn or for patching up a leaking garage roof. There are a wide variety of uses for this kind of heavy duty clear tape, which clearly illustrates the versatility of the product.
Features of Clear Tape
Benefits and Features
As we have discussed above, clear tape comes in a variety of forms and can have a number of different features to make it more durable, easier to use or less damaging to the environment.
One of the main variables when it comes to clear tape is how thick or heavy duty it is. Your basic home use clear tape, such as Sellotape, is fairly lightweight and only used for simple jobs such as wrapping presents. As packaging demands increase (ie bigger, heavier boxes being delivered), the clear tape needs to be more durable and is subsequently produced to be thicker and more heavy duty to cope with this. The more extreme heavy duty types of clear tape are made from a number of layers of clear tape woven together to create a strong material. This can be combined with a particularly strong adhesive and additional properties such as water proofing to make the clear tape incredibly durable, even in adverse weather conditions.
Nowadays clear tape can come in a variety of different dispensers which promote ease of use and cause less frustration and product wastage. These range in variety from your basic home clear tape dispenser to the more commercial use of 'tape guns' which are often seen in factories which deal with a lot of packaging. These products allow people to use their clear tape much more quickly and easily, and stops you losing the end of the clear tape which can slow you down even more and cause a lot of irritation!
One final point to note is the environmental impact of clear tape. Because clear tape is produced in such vast quantities and is so commonly used within packaging, it has the capacity to be a huge environmental hazard. However, many companies combat this by producing clear tapes with less harmful materials used, some clear tapes are even biodegradable.
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