Everyone must be familiar with refrigerators. They are very common in our lives. Have you noticed that the doors, brackets, drawers and small parts of the new refrigerators we bought are often covered with a piece of white or transparent single-sided tape? What are these tapes used for? Our new refrigerators look so neat on the outside, don’t these tapes seem to affect the appearance?
In fact, the prominent role of these tapes is to fix the components of electrical equipment during production and transportation. When a refrigerator is transported from a manufacturing plant to a store, warehouse or consumer's home, it will inevitably shake and vibrate along the way. If there is no certain fixing measures, the refrigerator door can easily be shaken open during transportation. Yes, under normal circumstances, refrigerators, air conditioners and other electrical appliances need to be fixed when they are transported from the factory. The appliance fixing tape to be used here is mainly to facilitate the fixation of refrigerators and other electrical appliances with moving parts, so as to ensure the stability during transportation and reduce damage to home appliances. Otherwise, without these tapes, it is difficult to ensure that each refrigerator will not be damaged by shocks on the road when it arrives at the destination.
If you look closely, you will find that the color of these single-sided tapes is very light, and you can usually see strips of "fibers" on the surface - these are glass fibers used to enhance the strength of the tape. This type of tape is also called fiberglass tape. Fiber tape is a reinforced glass fiber or polyester (PET) fiber. Some companies will also choose BOPP instead of PET base film to reduce costs. Fiber tape has extremely strong breaking strength, excellent wear resistance and moisture resistance, and the unique pressure-sensitive adhesive layer has excellent long-lasting adhesion and special properties, so it is widely used in life.
In the home appliance industry, manufacturers have specially designed a non-residue adhesive tape for this purpose. It is easy to peel and combines a strong polyester film backing with uninterrupted glass yarn fibers and hot-melt synthetic rubber resin glue. The high-strength film backing has appropriate hardness and excellent wear and moisture resistance, while the strong adhesive is specially formulated to have the characteristics of quick adhesion, long-term fixation, and thorough peeling on various surfaces. It is used in moving some home appliances with moving parts, such as plastic trays in refrigerators. Since the tape will not leave any traces of glue, after being fixed with non-residue glass fiber tape, it will not be damaged by shaking during transportation, and the end user of the product does not need to remove the residual glue when using it like the tape with residue.
In addition, some friends may worry about whether these tapes have odor, whether they will release any chemicals, and whether they will affect the food stored in the refrigerator? In fact, such tapes have volatility and odor requirements. Qualified products will not have obvious odor. The raw materials used to make this type of tape are usually chemically stable polypropylene. It will not cause harm to the environment and food in the refrigerator like plastic products such as polyvinyl chloride plastic bags. The excellent tape products on the market are all sufficiently environmentally friendly "healthy products."
