Adhesive tape, or adhesive tape, is a polypropylene film coated on one or both sides with glue, designed for gluing different surfaces. The value of this product and the demand for it can hardly be overestimated, since it is used in all types of industry, in the manufacture of furniture, for packaging and, of course, it is an integral part of any office.
Nevertheless, packaging tape occupies the largest place in the sales market. Therefore, if you decide to organize an adhesive tape business, you need to start with this particular type. The right choice of equipment for the production of adhesive tape is the key to success in business. This will be discussed in the article.
Types and properties of adhesive tape
The standard width of the tape is 48/50 millimeters. Packaging material has a width of 72/75 millimeters, and industrial - 50/75 millimeters. The length of the adhesive tape can vary significantly: from 5 to 990 meters. The polypropylene base has a thickness of approximately 25 microns.
The quality of adhesive tape is determined by several physical parameters, the main of which is adhesion, that is, the ability to adhere to the surface, stick to it. Of course, this parameter depends on the composition applied to the film. That is why adhesive for the production of adhesive tape should be chosen with great care.
For the manufacture of high-quality products, acrylic glue is most suitable. In some cases, a rubber composition is also used that retains its characteristics even in cases of temperature changes, due to which it can be used for packaging a variety of products. The thickness of the adhesive layer, which serves as the main indicators of the quality of the composition, can range from 10 to 30 microns.
Technological process
With a full cycle, the manufacture of adhesive tape is carried out in several stages. First, prepare the base: from a BOPP film 23-28 microns thick, corona on both sides, make a jumbo roll, and also make a cardboard sleeve.
The sleeve is made as follows: a cardboard role is cut using a bobbin-cutting machine, and then a sleeve with a thickness of 3 millimeters and a diameter of about 76.2 millimeters is wound and glued on a sleeve-cutting machine. After that, glue is applied to the film, for which a jumbo roll is placed in a coating machine. Then directly proceed to the manufacture of the adhesive tape itself.
Adhesive tape machines
The production process can be carried out in a two-stage or one-stage scheme. In the second method, bobbin-cutting machines are used - they immediately rewind the rolls and cut them into tape using pneumatic knives.
When choosing equipment for the production of adhesive tape, it is worth paying attention to specialized devices that can improve the performance of the slitter. Such devices make it possible to immediately put a cardboard sleeve on the shaft and connect it with tape. The machine makes one clip in 1-1.3 seconds.
If a two-stage scheme is used, then two units are used at once: rewind and cutting. The machine for the production of adhesive tape cuts a large cardboard sleeve into small ones, and then a special machine puts them on the shafts of the machine for cutting adhesive tape, where a jumbo roll is fixed.
It diverges into 26 tapes, distributed over the bushings. When the winding is completed, the shafts are removed and installed in the apparatus for installing the sleeves on the shafts, from where the finished rollers with the product are already removed.When cutting / winding material, sometimes the tape moves - this should be taken into account when choosing equipment for the production of adhesive tape. It is advisable to supplement the line with a machine for rewinding defective rollers.
Buy or produce?
For beginning entrepreneurs, the full production cycle described above is not cost-effective, since the purchase of equipment will be costly. So, you have to buy a machine for making a jumbo roll (about $ 23,000), a machine for cutting cardboard and manufacturing bushings (an average of $ 35,000), and also pay operators for the work.
On the other hand, the cost of the sleeve of your production will be 30-50 percent lower than the purchase, in addition, you can put different logos on it (the company of the customer or your company), which will make it possible to expand the circle of consumers. You can also vary the size of the adhesive tape to order and thereby take an advantageous position in the market. And yet, in spite of such advantages, it will be more expedient for beginning businessmen to purchase ready-made material.
Cost of necessary equipment
In Russia, the approximate price of a jumbo roll when ordering a 25-26-ton container is 82 rubles per kilogram, and a 14-16-ton container is 91 rubles / kg. Chinese rolls will cost a little cheaper. The cost of the bushings starts from 3 rubles. per linear meter. The price of a bobbin cutting machine is an average of 850-1300 thousand rubles.
Assess your financial capabilities before choosing equipment for the production of adhesive tape. A complete set (a machine for cutting a jumbo roll, an apparatus for cutting sleeves, a machine for loading adhesive tape, a rewinder, a packaging machine) will cost a lot of money. Good luck in business!
