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What is an Adhesive Tape Converter?
Adhesive tape converters play a crucial role in the manufacturing supply chain, bridging the gap between adhesive tape manufacturers and end-users. Converters take large jumbo rolls of adhesive tape and other flexible materials from major manufacturers like 3M, tesa, and Avery Dennison, and transform them into customized products and parts that enhance the end user's production process or final goods.
While tape manufacturers typically produce standard-sized rolls (such as 1", 2", and 3"), converters go a step further. Specialized machinery and processes allow converters to create custom roll sizes and parts that significantly increase production output and improve final product quality.
Services Offered by Adhesive Tape Converters
Adhesive tape converters provide a range services that create "production-friendly" parts, including:
Narrow-width slit roll goods: Large log rolls of materials are cut to your custom widths. Rolls can also be rewound slit to create custom length rolls of material.
Precision Cutting/Die Cuts: Custom cut shapes and sized parts can be presented in sheet or roll form, giving the end user more design freedom.
Traverse wound spools: Tapes are traverse wound into long-length spools that are designed for easier handling and dispensing. Spooled rolls of material keep laminating machines running and eliminate material waste due to frequent machine stoppages and roll changes.
Laminating: Multiple layers of materials are combined to create unique, custom adhesive parts.
Printing: Converters can print materials to convey messages or increase branding.
Inventory: Converters typically carry bulk jumbo rolls of material and can inventory your pre-cut parts.
Custom Packaging: Materials can be custom packaged to reduce damage, increase productivity, improve quality, or enhance branding.
Benefits of Working with a Converter
Customization: Products and materials are tailored to meet your exact application requirements.
Expertise: Converters provide a wealth of product knowledge amongst a wide variety of adhesive tapes and other materials from many major manufacturers.
Efficiency: Custom converted parts can significantly increase production output and reduce the need for in-house modifications.
Quality: Precision cut parts meet very exacting specification tolerances and improve consistency.
Lead times: In the engineering stage, converters help get your product to market faster; then, carry inventory that improves lead times.
Cost Reductions: By optimizing material use and improving production processes, converters help reduce overall manufacturing costs.
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