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Material Spotlight: Avery Dennison Volt Tough Electrical Insulation Solution

The Avery Dennison Volt Tough line is a line of specialty dielectric pressure-sensitive adhesives (PSAs) that was introduced to the market at the 2023 Battery Show North America. With its high-dielectric strength, instant bond, and durability, the Volt Tough line has many applications in electrical battery insulation. In today's material spotlight, we're focusing on a new addition to the Volt Tough Line: Volt Tough Stretch.

Material Spotlight: Construction Layer Tapes for Medical Wearables

While not new to the market, differential double-sided tapes are playing an increasing role in fabricating wearable technology devices – as construction layer (tie-layer) tapes that bond one component to the next and as skin contact tapes that affix the device to the skin.  Today’s material spotlight focuses on several such products offered by Avery Dennison Medical and features insights and information provided by Avery Dennison marketing manager and adhesives expert, Miguel Solivan.

Top Wearable Adhesive Tapes for CGM Applications

A few years ago, we prepared a short blog post that highlighted the selection criteria for stick-to-skin adhesives. To build on that – and to provide information a bit more specific to the CGM application – we reached out to some of our major medical adhesive suppliers and asked them to highlight some of their “go-to” tapes for CGM applications.   This list is by no means all-inclusive, but our hope is that it will provide a good starting point for folks that are trying to find the perfect adhesive for their remote monitoring CGM patch project. 

Top Skin-Contact Adhesive Tapes for Pulse Oximetry Applications

We’ve written recently about the pros and cons of synthetic rubber, acrylic and silicone pressure sensitive adhesives in die-cut pulse oximetry applications. We’ve also talked about key pulse ox adhesive selection criteria. Today, we want to highlight some of the medical adhesive tapes offered by a few of our key supplier partners that are particularly applicable in die cut pulse oximetry products.   

10 Medical Uses for Differential Double-Sided Adhesive Tape

Differential double-sided adhesive tapes are a great way to bond two very different materials - think foam to glass or steel to plastic - and their versatility makes them a popular choice in industries like electronics and automotive. This two-faced approach to adhesive tape bonding makes differential tape the perfect choice for bonding two materials with significantly different surface characteristics. It's also the main reason you'd probably choose to use a differential tape in the first place. In this post, we turn our attention to some of the most common ways that you'll find differential adhesive tapes being used for medical applications.

10 Automotive Uses for Differential Double-Sided Tape

Welcome to the second post in our series about differential double-sided Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) tape.  In our first post - Differential Double-Sided Tapes Defined | The Basics, we gave an overview of differential double-sided PSA tapes. Here we'll see how these special double-sided adhesive tapes are used for 10 automotive applications.