Essentra Specialty Tapes Introduces New Duraco Red Film Tape

Forest Park, IL – Essentra Specialty Tapes (formerly Duraco Inc. and Duraco Express) introduces its new versatile double-sided clear film tape, Duraco Red.  This new family of premium tapes was developed as an ideal solution for:

1. Permanent bonding, especially in hard-to-adhere applications, such as UV coated materials.
2. Accurate positioning of a transparent tape over graphics or text.
3. Revealing the graphics during and after application of the tape.
4. Use in high temperatures.
5. Applications where a thicker film tape is required.

Duraco Red’s release liner and permanent tape are both transparent, allowing the user to accurately position the tape while applying it to a surface with graphics or text.  Once the red liner is removed, the graphics will show clearly through the remaining tape.  The adhesive will not yellow, and it minimizes any hazy appearance.  It will maintain the aesthetic value and readability of the underlying graphics or text. 

A specially modified acrylic adhesive used in Duraco Red produces a strong bond with a wide variety of materials. Examples include difficult bonding surfaces, such as UV coated signs and other graphics, low surface energy plastics (polypropylene, polyethylene and some styrenes) and metals with powder-coated paint.  Duraco Red is also well suited for more typical bonding applications, such as paper, corrugated cardboard, wood, glass and other materials.

Duraco Red can also be used for applications that require a thicker film tape.  Its 8 mil thickness is nearly double the thickness of many other standard film tapes.  The extra adhesive used in Duraco Red allows for greater wet-out or flow-out to achieve a stronger molecular bond.

This film tape has a service temperature range of -14°F to +300°F, and is best applied in temperatures between +65°F and +100°F.  Duraco Red is available as pre-cut pieces on a roll, or on continuous rolls.  Pre-cut pieces on a roll are available in widths ranging from 1/2” to 1”, with a 1” to 5” length.  Essentra Specialty Tapes not only provides the industry standard roll length of 180 ft., but also features exclusive long rolls in a 750 ft. length.  Standard rolls are available in widths of 3/8” to 3”.  Long rolls are available in widths of 3/8” to 1”.

The multiple features and properties of the Duraco Red tape family were engineered to accommodate unmet needs and unique applications encountered among customers using other tapes.  Duraco Red can be used in the development of P.O.P and other retail displays, for box closures and vinyl banners.  Printers of all types of materials – signs, banners, containers and more – can use Duraco Red in their manufacturing and production process.

Essentra Specialty Tapes manufactures all of their Duraco Red tape products, and maintains product inventory at seven distribution centers located throughout the U.S. These regional centers provide quick and local access to products, including same day shipments.

For more information on Duraco Red Film Tapes, please go to: http://www.essentraspecialtytapes.com/duraco-red

About Essentra Specialty Tapes, Inc.

Essentra Specialty Tapes offers a wide selection of uniquely functional tapes required by market segments such as Point of Purchase Displays, to effectively merchandise store products in retail establishments; by appliances, to make them water-tight and quiet; in buildings, to reinforce structural or design elements; in schools and museums, to provide permanent and temporary fastening solutions for changing needs; for sealing envelopes, securing package contents prior to shipping, and for many more customer requirements. 

Products include foam tapes, transfer tapes, hook and loop fasteners, film and laminating tapes, high bond tapes, weather stripping, bumpers and magnetic tapes, among others. All products are available in stock, and the company accommodates custom orders as well.  The company has almost 70 years of design and manufacturing expertise that ensures dependable product performance and unmatched service.  The company’s express distribution locations are positioned to provide customers fast, local and convenience service. 

About Essentra PLC

Essentra is a leading international supplier of specialty plastic, fiber, foam and packaging products with four principal operating divisions: Component & Protection Solutions, Porous Technologies, Packaging & Securing Solutions and Filter Products.  The company continuously produces and distributes millions of small, but essential, components to a variety of industries. Its products are often unnoticeable or even unrecognizable, but are found everywhere.

The company’s international network extends to 33 countries and includes 42 principal manufacturing facilities, 64 sales and distribution operations and five research & development centers.

Shares in the new company are now traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange under the Tradable Instrument Display Mnemonic of ESNT.L.  Essentra’s ISIN and SEDOL numbers, being GB00B0744359 and B074435 GB respectively, are unchanged.