Electrical Tape

Find electrical tape including colored electrical tape, 3M electrical tape, black electrical tape and more. Use the time-saving Request for Quote tool to submit your inquiry to all the electrical tape manufacturers and suppliers you select.

AIP is a 3M Premier Distributor & Preferred Converter. We offer a wide variety of tapes made by the top manufacturers in the world, including all the 3M tapes, VHB product line and adhesives. AIP can add an adhesive to almost any type of soft goods, including foams, making a tape to meet your exact application. To assist your production needs we offer slitting and die cutting converting services.
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Stocked with pressure sensitive tapes from so many top tape suppliers, Specialtytapes.com is a distributor & converter sure to have the best option for your application: bonding, attaching, sealing, masking, protection, shielding, conducting or gasketing. Plus die-cutting, laminated, slitting and printing. If you need any type of industry or specialty tape, like electrical tape, we have solutions!
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Tape-Rite one of the oldest tape converters in the US, offers an extensive line of double-coated tapes, transfer adhesives, surface protection tapes, electrical & thermal insulation tapes, security tapes, decorative tapes & much more. Call today! We are a worldwide distributor of specialty tapes such as electrical tape & secondary services such as custom tape slitting & rewinding done on premises.
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Distributor & custom tapes converter offering 100% satisfaction. All types of pressure sensitive & industrial tape solutions: adhesive tapes, foam tapes, gasketing tapes, electronic & PCB tapes, packaging tapes, plastic film tapes, foil tapes, slicing tapes, die cutting, tape slitting & printing too. Serving the industry for 40 years, we offer a vast inventory of tape including electrical tape.
Furnishing a wide variety of pressure sensitive tape products, Electro Tape Specialties was established in 1969 as an alternative cost effective choice to major producers. Our product listing includes adhesive tape, foil tape, colored duct tape, all purpose electrical tape, foam tape, masking tape, packaging tape, printed tape, sealing tape, Teflon tape, vinyl tape, and more from which to choose.
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Tape supplier/manufacturer, Tape & Label Converters, offers labels, tapes, decals & tags. Since 1977 we've manufactured pressure sensitive tapes with state-of-the-art equipment. Using flexography & hot foil stamping methods, products include standard tapes, adhesive tapes, packaging tapes, vinyl tapes, 3M tapes, electrical tapes & military standard tapes. Serving packaging & cosmetics industries.
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Electrical Tape

Electrical tape is made from materials that don't conduct electricity and therefore is very useful for insulating electrical wire or other conduits and securing lighting cables.  It is sometimes made out of plastic, but mostly vinyl because of its ability to stretch, tear easily, and last long.  These useful properties led electrical tape to become an all-purpose tape used not only by electricians, but by athletes, musicians and homeowners.  All electrical tape has been UL certified not to catch fire or burn if overheated, and therefore is safe to use when wrapping exposed wire.  Electrical tape is most often black because of its ultraviolet resistance, but many electricians use different colors to identify voltage levels and phases of wires.  For example, blue tape signals a low voltage, phase C wire, brown represents a high voltage, phase A wire, and green tape is used on earth ground wires.

Electrical tape is often adhered to exposed wires by wrapping the roll around the wire so that the tape comes off the roll.  Light tension should be applied to keep the tape on the wire, where it becomes waterproof, insulated, and safe to touch.  The tape needs to be wrapped tightly so there are no gaps where moisture can get in, but not too tight or else it will stretch too far, change shape and loosen as it returns to its original state.  Electrical tape is able to stay put for many years, and may be easily removed without leaving adhesive on the wire.  It may also sometimes be referred to as PVC electrical insulation tape (if it's made out of plastic), insulating tape or friction tape. 

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