Sellotape
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| Founded | 1930s, United Kingdom |
| Headquarters | Winsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom |
| Products | Sellotape, other adhesive stationery |
| Owner | Henkel |
| Website | www.sellotape.com |
Sellotape (pronunciation: /ˈseləˌteɪp/) 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 used in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Croatia, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Macedonia, Zimbabwe, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. The term is also used much in the same way that Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada and the United States (and Sticky Tape in Australia), in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.
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.
The tape was originally manufactured in 1937 by Colin Kinninmonth and George Gray, 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 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.
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