CROW's Top 3 Tape Manufacturers
3M
Headquarters: St. Paul, MN, USA
Website: www.3m.com
Revenue: Approx. $12 Billion ($31.7 total in 2017)
Main Markets: Automotive, electronics, health care, energy, consumer and packaging
About: 3M, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (1902–2002), is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota (a suburb of St. Paul). With over $31 billion in annual sales in 2017, 3M employs 91,000 people worldwide and has operations in more than 70 countries. 3M offers one of the broadest portfolios of tapes including automotive tapes, electrical tapes, mastics, energy manufacturing tapes, industrial tapes, cable Insulations. The company also offers a variety of other products including coated, non-woven & bonded abrasives, structural adhesives, sealants, and specialty materials.
Tesa SE
Headquarters: Tesa: Norderstedt / Beiersdorf:
Hamburg, Germany
Website: www.tesa.de
Revenue: Approx. $1.4 Billion
Main Markets: Automotive, electronics, health care,
energy, consumer, building and packaging
About: Tesa is one of the largest German tape manufacturer and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of self-adhesive products with annual sales of more than $1.4 billion. The company is a subdivision of the Beiersdorf AG (approx. $8 billion revenue). Tesa offers a very broad portfolio self-adhesive products including tapes for the automotive, electronic, electrical, building and consumer industries as well as wound care products (bandaids and bandages) for the medical industry (Hansaplast).
Shurtape Technologies, LLC
Headquarters: Hickory, NY (USA)
Website: www.shurtape.com
Revenue: > $500 Billion1
Main Markets: Consumer home & office products, building
& construction
About: Shurtape Technologies, LLC, is one of the
largest manufacturer and marketer of adhesive tapes and consumer
home and office products. The company offers professional and
consumer cloth and duct tapes as well as gaffer's, masking,
packaging and transfer adhesive tapes. Shurtape also produces
tapes for the building and construction industry including seam
sealing, flashing, moisture barrier and HVAC tapes (aluminum,
reinforced, film and butyl foil tapes).
1IncFact.com, Shurtape Revenue, Growth & Competitor Profile, Jan. 2019