Frank Beil Company

Factory Authorized Better Packages Sales & Service

Gummed Tapes

Gummed Tape is available in several different strengths and three different styles.  

Reinforced Tape

Reinforced Gummed Tape is available in several different sizes and strengths.   Recently manufacturers have added metric sizes as well. 

The most common for 20-40 pound boxes is the Medallion brand by Intertape.  The Medallion is a natural 3 way reinforced, 70mm by 500' with 6 rolls per carton.  The Medallion tape is also available in a 3" by 450' roll, brown or white.  

A good medium (aka industrial) grade for 40-60 pound boxes is the Carton Master brand available in a natural 3 way reinforced, with 3" by 375' per roll, 8 rolls per case.

When pricing tape, we always recommend buying the tape by the foot.  If you are buying 10 rolls of 450' for $46.00, your cost is $ 0.0102222222222 per foot (42.00/4500').   After determining price per foot, buy the longest roll that will fit in the machine.  The largest roll will save time and labor in your operators having to change out the rolls.  (Estimated time average 3-5 minutes depending on how far the packer has to walk to get another roll of tape.  At $7.00 per hour, change out will cost $0.58333 for 5 minutes!)

Determining price per foot will also determine best buy.  

The 500' x 70mm 6 rolls per case is highly recommended due to the size and weight of the carton.  Your packers will appreciate the smaller size, and it fits better at packing stations.

Asphaltic Reinforced Gummed Tape

Used mainly by the Federal Government and considered out of date.  Asphaltic tape will gum up a tape machine very fast due to the black asphalt used in the manufacture of the tape.  With the advancements in tape, we recommend using the 3-way non-asphaltic reinforced gummed tape above.

Paper Tape

Plain Paper Gummed Tape aka Non-Reinforced Kraft Sealing Tape used to be the only tape used prior to 1966.  Gradually over the years usage has dropped to a mere trickle of pre 1966 levels.  Today the most common is 60# tape available in 2", 2 1/2" and 3" standard widths with 600' on a roll.  Kraft tape is used on light boxes, generally under 25#, and mostly for inner pack type applications.  This tape is dispensed in the Better Pack 555eS, TapeShooter 333, or in the Pull and Tear units.

The other style of plain gummed tape is known as "inch and a half, gummed side out."  This tape is used in meat markets, and in printing companies for binding.   The tape is dispensed in the Better Pack TapeShooter 404.  

Printed Tape

We also handle the equipment to print on tape as it is dispensed (CT#6 by Better Packages), or the new CT2003 for the BP555e series.   

Our specialty is dispensing, not the tapes.  Due to the shipping weight, local companies should be able to provide better service.