Tapes and Adhesives are very commonly used in offices and households.  Scotch tape, liquid glue, masking tape, etc. are all needed in an office. Scotching tapes or transparent tapes are used very generally and is actually a product of 3M Corporation. It has many different uses around office and households. It is very popular and very widely used for packing gifts, sticking paper,etc. Various types of tapes have become a very common thing in our daily life. We are using it in many occasions without even realising it.

Sometimes it is difficult to find a tape supplier who is supplying all the different types of tapes. Some of these suppliers provide packaging service as well. Big industries will have their own tape suppliers also providing packaging services as they will have a separate department or sector in the company taking care of packing. If items are to be shipped out, proper packaging is a must and they will have daily supply of tapes and other packing materials coming in from the supplier.

In online retailing company tapes will be of high use as items needed very much as they will have to ship items to customers based on orders almost on a daily basis. Proper packaging is very important to supply the order in proper condition without damage. Manufactures of tapes are coming up with new technologies to make newer types of tapes. Self-Adhesive Self-tearing tapes have become very popular because of its ease of use.

Some tape suppliers will be supplying to retail merchants based on their requirements. A good supplier should be able to identify the tapes that are high in demand and should be ready with goods in stock even before the order comes in. All the merchants will prefer a supplier who can supply goods with a very short notice of time. In order for the supplier to do that, the supplier should be keeping track of the goods that are moving fast and those that are not getting sold enough.

A good tape supplier should be supplying tapes for every application. Double sided tapes are also used a lot with adhesives on both the sides. These are good for sticking pictures on wall and things like that. Anti-Slip tapes are used very commonly at home. These tapes might be getting manufactured not from a usual tape manufacturer because of its different area of use and also usually may not even be supplied from usual tape suppliers.  Scotch tapes, foam tapes, pressure-sensitive adhesive, spray adhesive tapes, etc. are some of the other different tapes used and some of these are used only in certain industries and not all suppliers will be supplying these tapes.

There are many tapes that come with prints on them such as 'fragile', 'handle with care' and so on. These tapes are also in high demand and most of the tape suppliers supply these types of tapes also. Big companies will only use tapes with their company names printed on them. Such companies usually will have their own tape supplier supplying them with huge amount of these tapes. Such big companies will take quotes from different suppliers to choose the one which is giving them the best price.