3M™ Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Guide

• Maintains surface integrity with no holes, preventing corrosion or contamination with moisture and dirt
• Allows precise alignment before final closure
• Joins dissimilar materials without corrosion and contamination

• Has vibration absorption and security, preventing loosening or failing attachments
• Makes an audible click, ensuring proper closure
• Reliable performance indoors and outdoors

• Panel and cover plate attachment
• Interior and hang signage
• Office partitions
• Graphic attachment
• Access panels

• Interior attachment of specialty vehicles
• Decorative appliance trim attachment
• Point-of-purchase display and signage
• Securing fabric to furniture cushions

Extreme Sealing Tapes:

• Protects and seals with confidence, as it sticks on contact to many metals and plastics without drying time, dripping, oozing, and clean‑up
• Conforms over contours, edges, rivets, and screw heads for a water-tight seal
• Has durable sealing that withstands harsh environmental conditions and resists UV light, moisture, and solvents for years
• Paintable

Duct & Cloth Tapes:

• Sticks immediately and stays on reliably
• Makes an audible click, ensuring proper closure
• Reliable performance indoors and outdoors

Extreme Sealing Tapes:

• Sealing truck and trailer roofs, skylights, window and door, and roof‑to‑trim
• Difficult sealing applications like joints, seams, or penetration

Duct & Cloth Tapes:

• Joining and sealing of sheetings, wallboards, and metal and plastic ducting
• Splicing of insulation, pipes, and panels
• Wrapping of containers and pipes
• Colour coding, marking, and labelling
• Container sealing and tarp repair

• Performs well throughout all temperatures typically encountered by packaged products in shipping and storage environments
• Resists splitting when subjected to rough handling and absorbs impact shock

• Adheres instantly to a variety of surfaces and works especially well on challenging recycled corrugate and fibreboard
• Reduces noise level in the work area with a slow, low‑noise unwind

• Light- to heavy‑weight box sealing
• Single strip closure of fibreboard boxes

• Seal boxes with high recycled content
• Heat shrink sealing and bundling lightweight packages

• Bonds easily with high initial adhesion to most corrugated fibreboard substrates
• Withstands rough shipping and handling conditions

• Resists nicks, abrasions, moisture, and scuffing
• Offers an excellent balance of initial adhesion and long-term holding power
• Provides cut and tear resistance in machine direction and cross‑direction

• Closing and reinforcing boxes
• Cross web splicing
• Bundling of heavy‑weight products

• Tabbing and bundling metal coils
• L‑clip and U‑clip closures
• Pallet unitizing and bundling for shipping and handling

• Removes cleanly in one piece, leaving no residue on most surfaces
• Resists slivering, yet is hand‑tearable
• Resists solvents and moisture and will not bleed through – also suitable for use with water-based paint systems

• Creates good paint lines, as it resists paint bleed through
• Excellent UV resistance for long-term indoor and outdoor use (up to 6 weeks)
• Ultra-flat paint edges
• Crepe paper backing for conformability that will maintain integrity when formed around corners

• Outdoor painting and varnishing work
• Paint masking applications in the building and metal construction industries
• Marking for joint sealing applications
• Air drying and oven curing of paint and lacquer

• Oven-drying systems, infrared or heat lamps
• Masking parts for high temperature powder coat painting
• Splicing of silicone liners, films, and papers
• Use for temporary fixing, attaching, or holding

• Installs quickly and can be removed and cleaned up easily without damaging the respective surface
• Provides excellent holding power and a strong bond to most floors
• Conformable backing makes it ideal for use on curved and irregular surfaces

• Provides long-term high-visibility and abrasion resistance
• Unique stretch properties enable tape to remain stretched to conform to uneven surfaces without lifting and retracting
• Available in a variety of colours and sizes for diverse applications

• Lane and safety marking
• Marking of equipment pinch points or gears for warning purposes
• Colour coding piping, tools, instruments, and more
• Protecting parts, equipment, and products from abrasion

• Taping, wrapping, or sealing many curved or convex surfaces
• Floor marking in high‑traffic areas
• General purpose holding and bundling
• Lane and safety marking applications

• Aluminum Foil Tape 425 withstands a variety of moisture, weathering, UV, and solvents in order to provide an excellent work life, indoors or out
• Light reflective tape enhances lighting efficiency
• High thermal conductivity enhances heating or cooling efficiency

• Glass Cloth Tape 361 has a wide operating range and also performs in humid environments with intermittent temperatures
• UHMW-PE Film Tape 5423 can help control squeaks and rattles due to vibration or wear of metal and plastic materials
• PTFE Tape can create an easy release surface on machine parts where build-up of sticky materials and inks occur
• Strong abrasion-resistant backing resists shrinking, rotting, or burning providing exceptional stability in harsh environments

• Heat shielding and heat reflecting of delicate parts
• Masking in chemical paint tripping
• Light-reflecting for light enhancement
• Seaming and sealing
• Refrigerator and freezer coil attachment
• Splicing of thin gauge foils, fabric, seaming, and sealing panels
• Permanent sealing of high-temperature ducts of chambers

• Reducing squeaks and rattles in automotive and transportation assemblies
• Lining of conveyors, chutes, blades, slides, and guide rails
• Separating dissimilar parts to reduce noise and friction
• Protecting aluminum sheets on stretch‑forming presses
• High-temperature wire bundling and harnessing
• Shielding and protecting against chemicals
• Wrapping web rollers to reduce friction