Sellotape
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| Type | Public |
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| Founded | 1930s, United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Winsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
| Products | Sellotape, other adhesive stationery |
| Owner(s) | Henkel |
| Website | www.sellotape.com |
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Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, cellulose-based, pressure sensitive adhesive tape, and is the leading brand of clear, pressure sensitive tape in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. The term has become a genericised trademark in Britain, Serbia and Croatia, and is used much in the same way that scotch tape came to be used in America, referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.[1]
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[edit] History
The name ‘Sellotape’ was coined in 1937 by Colin Kininmonth and George Gray, who made the product by applying rubber resin to cellophane film. The name was derived from "Sellophane", which itself was derived from Cellophane, at that time a trademarked name, with the "C" changed to "S" so that the new name could be trademarked.[2]
The tape was originally manufactured in Acton, West London. From the 1960s to 1980s, the Sellotape company was part of Dickinson Robinson Group, a British packaging and paper conglomerate. In 2002, it was bought by Henkel Consumer Adhesives.
Sellotape Industrial was bought by Scapa Group plc in 1997, and their products continue to be to manufactured at its factory in Dunstable, Bedfordshire
[edit] Products
Sellotape Original is made using cellulose film derived from wood pulp. The cellulose film decomposes naturally in soil, and is naturally easy tear and non-static.
The Sellotape brand now covers a variety of tape products, and the word is frequently used to refer to other adhesive tapes in many countries due to its market exposure. As an example of a genericised trademark, it has an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ "Generic Brand". http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/generic+brand. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
- ^ Room, Adrian (1984). Dictionary of Trade Name Origins. Routledge. p. 156. ISBN 0710201745.
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