Fashion-friendly Duct Tape: Tyco partners with accessory designer to make a unique fashion statement. (Case Study).

Adhesives Age,  March, 2003  by Mark Kalaygian

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LAST JUNE, fashion-accessory designer DUCTI, Inc. approached Tyco Adhesives with an unusual request create a new kind of duct tape that the company could use to construct a line of wallets and handbags.

Drawing the company name from its medium of choice for designing these accessories, DUCTI ran into some unforeseen challenges while working with the traditional duct tape offered under Tyco's Polyken brand. "We were already in production at a small plant in Mexico when we realized that regular duct tape wouldn't work," said DUCTI President David Pippenger, who co-founded the company, along with his wife, Joy Pippenger ...