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Marine industry: Real-world applications

For us at tesa, usability and design are just as important as functionality and reliability. With our multitude of available adhesive solutions, every part of the marine industry is catered to.

Mounting of mirrors, panels, and trims
Design painting
Stair and surface protection
Floor mounting
Large-area painting
Anti-slip
Heat insulation
Wire marking, mounting, harnessing, and bundling
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Mounting of mirrors, panels, and trims
Design painting
Stair and surface protection
Floor mounting
Large-area painting
Anti-slip
Heat insulation
Wire marking, mounting, harnessing, and bundling

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01Design painting

Whether large or small surfaces, there is a product for you in our wide range of tesa® tapes. When it comes to design painting, the focus is on achieving clean, crisp paint edges and flexibility for exact painting. Our tesa® 4204 PV6 has good tack on various surfaces and exceptional aging stability for long-term use. For more delicate use cases, our tesa® 4174 fineline tape allows good conformability with multidimensional surfaces with sharp and flat paint edges, such as for two-tone body masking.

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02Large-area painting

Our large-area masking tapes protect boat surfaces with their secure adhesion and excellent paint filler adherence. Our tesa® 4438, a flatback paper UV surface-protection tape, gets the job done on large surfaces thanks to its excellent outdoor resistance of up to 12 weeks and UV surface protection and clean paint edges. Apply it once and repaint as often as needed. For excellent adherence of paints and fillers, use our high-performance masking grade tape tesa® 4338, which features aging-resistant natural rubber adhesive.

Mirror mounting

03Mounting of mirrors, panels, and trims

When it comes to wall mounting, our 225 µm double-sided PVC film tape tesa® 4970 will keep everything in the right place for a long-lasting and secure fixation of mirrors, panels, and trims without the need for mechanical fasteners and liquid adhesives. At 300 µm, our tesa® 59651 - Team 4965 Thick is even thicker for high holding power at elevated temperatures. This double-sided industrial mounting tape with high tack, and good shear strength is used for lamination or bonding door elements. The thin version of this product family, tesa® 59650 - Team 4965 Thin, completes the range with its exceptional use in mounting decorative profiles and moldings.

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04Stair and surface protection

When you have repairs or maintenance done on your yacht, container, or cruise ship, protecting surfaces from dust and preventing scratches ensures long-lasting, pristine condition. 

  • Our tesa® 4388 Easy Cover® can help you in this endeavor. This two-in-one solution for masking of and protecting furniture, floors, and walls, as well as stairs protection has a slightly creped paper backing and is ideal for painting and spraying. You can save time and effort while still achieving clean edges for all paint jobs. 
  • When you have protection foils available, use our tesa® 4662 duct tape to easily bond construction and protection films. 
  • Another tape with exceptional protection properties is our waterproof tesa® 4688 with strong adhesion on rough surfaces and good handling characteristics.
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05Anti-slip

Keep your floor safe and slip-resistant. Anti-slip tapes are the perfect way to protect against and prevent slips. Our anti-slip assortment offers strong grip on every surface and helps keep passengers and crew safe. Our tesa® Professional 60950 helps you with all of the above and more. The anti-slip effect of this abrasion-resistant and resilient tape gives you safe footing for up to two years, even if it comes in contact with chemicals or salt water. Plus, our fluorescent tesa® 60953 doubles as a highlighting tape for dangerous areas. Tear it by hand and remove it without a trace.

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06Floor mounting

Double-sided tape is the answer to your floor-mounting questions. For both temporary and permanent use, our weather- and environmental-resistant tapes meet your specific marine carpet adhesive requirements of high adhesion for a secure bond. Our tesa® 4964 is a double-sided tape with fabric backing that has more than 50% bio-based carbon content in the total product without the liner. It is also highly effective for mounting applications on irregular surfaces thanks to its high coating weight.

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07Heat insulation

When it comes to high-heat insulation tape, we have just what you need for your marine applications. Our tesa® 60632 conformable aluminum tape with paper liner is electrically and thermally conductive and suitable for permanent applications. It provides a secure barrier against moisture, gases, and vapors, making it your reliable partner for thermal insulation. Age resistance and flame retardancy are further reasons why you should choose our tape for your insulation needs.

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08Wire marking, mounting, harnessing, and bundling

Never doubt which cable is which again. Used to bundle, mark, and mount wires and cables, our tesa® tapes help builders and repair shops securely harness electrical wires with UV- and weathering-stable tape that reduces noise, vibration, and harshness. Our tesa® 4163 soft multipurpose PVC tape features good adhesion to a wide range of surfaces and is exceptionally qualified for applications in electric installation work, repairing, splicing, or bundling. Its wide range of available colors has the extra advantage of finding exactly the cable you are looking for.

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What is the best marine tape?

There is no best marine tape, as this largely depends on the individual use case and the specific requirements. The marine industry places high demands on the used tapes, and different bonding challenges arise from use at sea. Permanent surface protection, for example, requires high bonding power as well as environmental and heat resistance to ensure optimum protection, while temporary surface protection needs to be removable quickly and without a trace. If you are not sure about the best possible tape solution for your application, please reach out to our experts.

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