Closing & Securing News

Fall 2018

Application News

The news today is full of terrorist activity and security breaches. Infinity Tapes LLC has products to assist in keeping your valued & sensitive items secure. Our Hidden Graphics Tamper Evident products provide secure packaging for film bags, corrugated cartons, stretch wrapped pallets and many other applications. These products appear as normal film or tape or label, but upon attempting to open or remove it, the adhesive activates and provides a message of VOID or OPENED or any custom message desired. Once tampered with, even if resealed, the message is evident and indicative of tampering. This is vital for air freight shipments, drugs or food items and/or high value products. We have the means to provide a safe, secure and pilfer evident product for your needs!

Did You Know?

• Adhesive tape made its first appearance in 1845?
• Dr. Horace Day, a surgeon used a rubber adhesive applied to strips of fabrics to make a new invention called Surgical Tape.
• In 1901, the German Oscar Troplowitz invented an adhesive patch called Leukoplast for the German company Beiersdorf AG. In 1936, German company Beiersdorf AG invented a transparent adhesive patch called Tesa.
• In 1921 Earle Dickson, a cotton buyer for Johnson and Johnson invented the Band-Aid. The surgical strips created by Horace Day kept falling off his wife’s fingers after cutting them in the kitchen, so he attached a piece of gauze to some cloth-backed tape and covered it with crinoline. Johnson and Johnson made him V.P. for his efforts.
• In 1923, Richard Drew joined the 3M company located in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the time, 3M only made sandpaper. Drew was product testing 3M’s Wet/Dry Sandpaper brand sandpaper at a local auto body shop, when he noticed that auto painters were having a hard time making clean dividing lines on two-color paint jobs. Richard Drew was inspired to invent the world’s first masking tape in 1925, as a solution to the auto painter’s dilemma.
• The brand Scotch came about while Richard Drew was testing his first masking tape to determine how much adhesive he needed to add. The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, “Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!” The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes.
• In 1942, Duct Tape was developed by Johnson and Johnson during World War II. The troops needed a waterproof tape that could seal considers and repair equipment. The cloth tape was coated with Polyethylene and Duct Tape was born. This J&J division went on to become Permacel.
• The full understanding of adhesion and adhesive tapes continued to evolve and has led to new adhesive tapes for many applications. Infinity Tapes produces tapes with extended liners for ease of application for closure, bonding and securing needs in the plastic and paperboard industries.

Let Infinity Tapes solve your tape application requirements today!

Things to Know

IIt’s Show Time – Pack Expo Chicago, October 14-17, 2018! This will be Infinity Tapes’ 14th consecutive year exhibiting! We will be showing all of our products for our standard applications and some new products you may not have ever seen before! Please stop by and see us at the show! In 2019, Pack Expo will be back in Las Vegas and of course we will be there also. Mark your calendars to come see us!

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Infinity Team

F. Gary Watkins

VP Sales & Marketing
Extension 7040
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Maja Lewandowska – Anbar

Customer Service Manager
Extension 7020
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Erica Algarin

Customer Service
Extension 7016
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Janet Naramore

Sales/Marketing Coordinator
Extension 7000
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