What is water-activated tape?

Want a more eco-friendly packaging tape option?

Try Viskom gummed paper tape instead of plastic tape.

Our gummed paper tape 60 mm x 200 m is 100% recyclable and made from renewable natural resources and provides a neat and very secure seal when applied to most boxes.

You’ll use a lot less gummed paper tape than you currently do with plastic, your packages will look neater and more professional, plus, you’ll probably have less aches and strains from pulling a tape roll over and around a box.

Unbelievably, there can be approx 3m of unrecyclable plastic tape used on many boxes, and if this waste plastic is left on the cardboard box after it’s been used, it makes the cardboard unrecyclable too.

So if you’re packing boxes in ecommerce, shipping or manufacturing operations, switch to Viskom water activated gummed paper tape and make your packing a taping more sustainable and efficient.

This simple method means that packing or fulfilment operators do not have to use rolls of plastic tape and put multiple lengths on non-recyclable plastic tape on boxes, which can look messy when they arrive at the end customer, but also cannot be recycled with the cardboard

Water activated gummed paper tape is ideal for use in e-commerce fulfilment centres; manufacturing packing stations; post rooms; and other packing locations where neatness, security and eco-friendly packaging is required.