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European Tape Week 2025 to unite adhesive tape industry, offering platform for innovation, collaboration and strategic development

Posted on: 06 May 2025 European Tape Week programme boasts 35+ field expert and CEO speakers. Early-bird registration until 15 May, Afera-appointed hotel booking until 1 July.

“We built this for pennies”: Insanely cheap duct tape robot gripper shocks scientists by screwing in lightbulbs with ease

Posted on: 24 April 2025 In a groundbreaking development, students at UC San Diego have engineered a low-cost robot gripper from everyday materials like measuring tape and duct tape, capable of performing intricate tasks such as screwing in light bulbs and picking fruit, challenging conventional notions of high-tech innovation.

Avery Dennison debuts new UV-resistant pressure-sensitive tapes for PV modules

Posted on: 21 April 2025 The new products support applications such as frame mounting, cell fixation, busbar bonding, and junction box installation.

Customs revises import values for self-adhesive tapes

Posted on: 16 April 2025 The ruling applies to imports from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Korea, UAE, Taiwan, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the USA

This Northeastern researcher is reinventing tape for foldable phones and health care devices

Posted on: 16 April 2025 As bendable screens continue to appear in more products, we’ll need more resistive adhesives to keep them together, says Ruobing Bai, a Northeastern University professor of mechanical and industrial engineering.

Afera opens registration for inaugural European Tape Week 2025: The ultimate gathering for Europe’s tape industry

Posted on: 11 April 2025 From 22-26 September 2025, the European adhesive tape sector will unite in Thessaloniki, Greece, for the first-ever European Tape Week hosted by Afera, the European Adhesive Tape Association.

Recent webinar shines a spotlight on Afera’s role in developing an industry-wide PCF toolkit: Driving sustainable transformation by providing leadership

Posted on: 10 April 2025 Industry associations can play a crucial role in helping member companies overcome key challenges as they work towards meeting their sustainability goals.

tesa receives MMK award of excellence for debonding technology

Posted on: 10 April 2025 Adhesive tapes manufacturer tesa has been honoured with the MMK Award of Excellence 2025 in the sustainable engineering category for its Debonding on Demand technology.