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'{{Other uses|Adhesive tape}} {{Infobox company | name = Sellotape | logo = Sellotape logo.PNG | type = [[Public company|Public]] | genre = | foundation = 1930s, [[United Kingdom]] | founder = | location_city = [[Winsford]], [[England]] | location_country = [[United Kingdom]] | location = <!-- this parameter modifies "Headquarters" --> | products = Sellotape, other adhesive stationery | owner = [[Henkel]] | company_slogan = | homepage = [http://www.sellotape.com www.sellotape.com] | dissolved = | footnotes = }} '''Sellotape''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|l|ə|ˌ|t|eɪ|p}}) is a British brand of transparent, [[polypropylene]]-based, [[pressure-sensitive tape]], and is the leading brand in the [[United Kingdom]]. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending. The term has become a [[genericised trademark]] in Britain and a number of other countries where it is sold. The term is also used much in the same way that [[Scotch Tape]] came to be used in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape. ==History== The name Sellotape was derived from ''cellophane'', at that time a trademarked name, with the "C" changed to "S" so that the new name could be trademarked.<ref>{{cite book | last = Room | first = Adrian | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of Trade Name Origins | publisher = Routledge | date = 1984 | location = | page = 156 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-7102-0174-5}}</ref> The tape was originally manufactured in 1937 by Colin Kinninmonth and George Grey, in [[Acton, London|Acton]], West London.<ref>{{cite book |title=Century Makers: One Hundred Clever Things We Take for Granted Which Have Changed Our Lives Over the Last One Hundred Years |first= David |last= Hillman |first2= David |last2= Gibbs|year= 1999|publisher=Welcome Rain |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Century_Makers.html?id=qWJFAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=}}</ref> From the 1960s to 1980s, the Sellotape company was part of [[Dickinson Robinson Group]], a British packaging and paper conglomerate. In the 1960s a small group of chemists (based in Wallington), led by a man named Alan Robinson, undertook a development of the stickiness in this product. In 2002, the company was bought by [[Henkel]] Consumer Adhesives. Sellotape Industrial was bought by Scapa Group plc in 1997, and their products continue to be manufactured at its factory in [[Dunstable]]. Sellotape was made in a factory in Borehamwood Hertfordshire from about 1950 until it moved to Welwyn Garden City or thereabouts. An architect working for E.S and A.Robinson of Redcliffe Street Bristol, E.F.Peat, was one of the designers of the factory and indeed was then given the job of factory manager! The range of tapes available in the 50s and 60s was immense compared with what is available now on the retail market, including RBT (reinforced banding tape), metallic tapes and a tape used for repairing PCBs. E.S and A.Robinson were originally a packaging and paper products manufacturing company ==Products== [[File:Sellotape.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Sellotape roll in a black dispenser.]] 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 [[genericized trademark]], it has an entry in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]. ==Use== The tape can be used to repair tears in paper, or to attach pieces of paper or cardboard together for modelling. On fragile paper surfaces the tape can only be used once, as removing it will either tear the paper or remove the top layer of rough cardboard; on smooth painted surfaces it can generally be removed without leaving any trace, though sometimes the adhesive can remain on the surface. It does not affix items to such surfaces permanently. ==See also== *[[Adhesive tape]] *[[Duct Tape]] *[[Masking tape]] *[[Scotch Tape]] * [[List of adhesive tapes]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.sellotape.com/ Official website] [[Category:Adhesive tape]] [[Category:Office equipment]] [[Category:Henkel brands]] [[Category:British brands]] [[Category:British inventions]] [[Category:Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Companies based in Cheshire]] [[es:Celo adhesivo]]'