Suppliers Support Council's Quality Initiatives
Recognizing the dynamic global changes in the pressure sensitive tape industry, PSTC invites industry suppliers to join tape manufacturers in building channel alliances through the PSTC affiliate supplier program. Suppliers and manufacturers together identify challenges and seek solutions - all directed to advancing the use of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes.
PSTC salutes its affiliate suppliers. Thank you for your support in advancing pressure sensitive adhesive tapes. Current affiliate suppliers are:
Ashland Performance Materials is recognized as a world leader for high
performance pressure sensitive adhesives. Ashland delivers "tailor-made"
solvent, emulsion, rubber and 100% solids technologies to meet customer
specific application requirements.
BASF Corp. is a leading supplier of acrylic emulsion, SBR emulsion
and UV-curable acrylic hot melt PSAs for label, tape, laminating and
specialty applications.
Cytec Industries is one of the world's leading specialty chemicals and materials technology companies. We offer a broad portfolio of advanced coating, bonding and laminating resins, including high-quality pressure sensitive adhesives for emerging medical, tapes, labels and graphics applications.
Eastman is a global leader in raw materials for the adhesives and polymer modification industries. We offer the broadest technology and product portfolio together with global manufacturing sites and an extensive sales and technology support network to give you a wealth of formulating and innovation options. Eastman tackifying resins and polymers provide the tack, shear strength, peel, light color, clarity and other characteristics needed to deliver outstanding performance for industrial, consumer and specialty tape applications.
FiberMark makes specialty fiber-based materials. The company provides an innovative range of products from thin, flexible paper and non-woven materials to the world’s most dense pressboards. FiberMark’s specialty fiber-based materials support industries and consumers worldwide.
Mayzo provides additives such as antioxidants, U.V. absorbers and stabilizers, optical brighteners, photoinitiators, and release agents to manufacturers of polymers resins, adhesives, rubber, ink, coatings, caulks and sealants. Mayzo produces innovative polypropylene modifiers to enhance impact properties, breathability, and improve processing in injection molding, thermoforming, film and pipe applications. Mayzo also produces custom blends in various product forms to meet customer requirements.
Milliken manufactures technical and specialty products custom engineered for end uses across the textile spectrum. We are currently serving markets such as substrates, reinforcements, flame retardant fabrics, seating, specialty packaging, barrier products, and many more. Our technical expertise and diverse manufacturing capabilities are focused on providing unique solutions to our customers’ opportunities that will improve their market position and insure long term success. Contact us to discuss your technical textile needs.
National Starch and Chemical is a global leader in adhesives, resins, specialty chemicals, electronic materials and adhesives, and specialty food and industrial starches. The Adhesives Division reflects National's core values of technological leadership and global diversity and manufactures at more than 50 sites in 26 countries. The Pressure Sensitive Adhesives team helps you build your business in tapes, graphics and label products with DURO-TAK® solvent acrylic products, solution rubber resins and hot melt adhesives as well as NACOR® water-based emulsions.
Rohm and Haas Company offers ready-to-use PSAs and release coatings, along with acrylic polymers and additives for the formulating of PSAs, caulks and sealants, construction adhesives and many other adhesive products. Rohm and Haas is a global leader in the development of innovative technologies and solutions for the specialty materials market. The company's technologies are found in a wide range of markets including building and construction, electronics, industrial process, packaging, transportation, household and personal care, water, food and retail and paper.
Sekisui Voltek, LLC, part of a worldwide network of Sekisui companies, is a global leader in the development and production of crosslinked, closed-cell polyolefin foams. Volara®, Volextra® and Minicel® foams offer superior performance and quality. Along with these key properties is our ability to produce consistent-gauge Volara as thin as 10 mils and Minicel as thick as 3 inches.
Sonoco, founded in 1899, is a global manufacturer of industrial and consumer products and provider of packaging services, with more than 300 operations in 35 countries serving customers in 85 nations.
Thilmany manufactures and converts lightweight packaging, pressure sensitive, industrial and technical papers. With a long history of leadership in the pressure sensitive market with production at the Nicolet and Kaukauna mills in Wisconsin, we produce a wide range of super-calendered krafts and glassine papers as well as poly-coated papers that can be custom engineered for your unique silicone release liner needs.
The Specialty Paper Group produces products from siliconized liners used in the production of graphite aerospace components to saturating papers used in high-pressure laminates to satisfy complex end-use requirements. The company's Mosinee, Rhinelander and Otis facilities produce papers engineered to achieve very specific qualities for a very diverse customer base and regularly experiment to develop new products.