Reliable Products: Advantage Adhesives Commitment to Quality

Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (PSA) tape performs many vital functions across industries, from sealing corrugated packages and bubble bag closures and envelopes, to various medical and construction applications. Advantage Adhesives offers top-quality adhesive tape products, with a commitment to providing superior customer service and timely delivery with every solution. As a result, we set some of the highest standards in our industry.

Advantage Adhesives’ Unique Offerings

Part of what helps Advantage Adhesives stand apart is our ability to tailor each product to the customer’s individual requirements. Based on each project’s needs, we provide personalized services with flexible designs and large-scale production capabilities. Some of our specific capabilities include:

We also offer a line of raw material options for our customers. For instance, we provide a variety of adhesive types, including:

• Removable/Resealable adhesives
• Permanent high-temperature and permanent high-tack adhesives
• Freezer-grade adhesives

We also carry a selection of liners, including:

Additionally, customers can choose from multiple carriers, such as:

The Importance of Compliance in Adhesive Manufacturing

Adhesives used within the food, medical, and many other industries must pass a stringent set of regulations and requirements to guarantee reliable performance. Quality control for adhesives offers several primary advantages:

Advantage Adhesives Certifications and Quality Standards 

When you need the best adhesive products available on the market, turn to Advantage Adhesives. Our continued success depends on an increasingly higher measure of quality, which is the key to our sustained success. We are highly detail-oriented, with a dedication to continual improvement across all of our offerings. We also work to maintain effective communication between our company and both our customers and trusted suppliers.

As such, we set particularly high standards with our customized pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes. We imbue every project with equal devotion to quality, excellence, and innovation, maintaining an honest and integral approach to relationships with our employees, suppliers, and customers. 

In the process of manufacturing custom solutions, we pay close attention to each customer’s unique requirements to provide them with the most innovative, compatible product. We also continue to keep up with our ever-evolving industry and adapt to sustain our long-term growth and expansion. These qualities make us one of the most trusted partners our customers can turn to for their adhesive solutions, whether they are in the market for adhesive tapes, foam tapes, or tissue tapes.

Our ISO certification, specifically ISO 9001:2015 certification for our Quality Management System, helps demonstrate our commitment to quality. This certification applies to our ability to produce high-quality adhesive-coated tapes, along with slitting, coating, and spooling services.

Partner with Advantage Adhesives for Quality Adhesives and Services

Whenever you’re seeking high-quality, sustainable adhesive tapes and other products, turn to the professionals at Advantage Adhesives. It’s best to work with a provider that can meet your specific application needs with sufficient in-house capabilities and on-time delivery. We will learn what you need in a custom adhesive, developing a top-quality product that is designed and manufactured to last. Our line of products includes:

All of these adhesive tapes can help save you more time and money, giving you the results you need while maximizing cost-effectiveness. To learn more about how Advantage Adhesives can help with your adhesive needs, please contact us today.

It Was 20 Years Ago This Week…

It was 20 years ago this week, that Greg Lane started Advantage Adhesives, Inc. He set out to build a company built around products of uncompromising quality and excellent service; to build an organization that was focused on dealing with customers, suppliers and employees with honesty and integrity; to find solutions rather than pushing off the shelf products on our customers problems; by being innovative and thinking outside of the box.

It is fun to think about the early days, to look back on pictures when we were all a little bit younger and our equipment was shiny and new. Its inspiring to walk out into our manufacturing facility and think back on the days where we occupied a small corner in the back of someone else’s warehouse. Greg often tells a story from the early days about issuing a PO for cores for our very first customer. It was a big deal for Greg to sign that first PO. It wasn’t a lot, but at the time, it was. He held onto it for 3 days, pulling it out and looking at it and then putting it back into his desk, until he got up the courage to take that leap. There are many small milestones that were exciting, like getting a brand-new coating line, or slitter. When we started we didn’t even have the capability to coat. One of the biggest moments for us was coating our first master roll of tape. We only ran it at 50 feet per minute, but it was special. It was the start of in house coating capabilities that would be tweaked and improved to get us to where we are today. Today we run 3 coating lines, 6 slitters, and 2 spooling lines.

It is not about machines or buildings though, but rather about the people who have made us who we are today. It is the relationships we have built with our many great suppliers who decided to sell the small new guy a few boxes of adhesive, or the liner supplier who agreed to make a few hundred feet of the liner when the big guys wouldn’t even take the phone call. It is about the customers who have leaned on us for our expertise, and our commitment to service. It is our customers who have counted on us to deliver a quality product, that is on time and priced right. Most importantly though, it is about our employees who have put in the hard work and long hours to work through problems and working late to make sure that equipment got fixed or that an urgent order got out to our customer in need. Greg likes to talk about having good employees in this way, “You can put me in a Ferrari, and Mario Andretti in a Yugo, and Mario Andretti will beat me every time.” Mario doesn’t win because Greg is a bad driver. Mario wins because he is an excellent driver. Our employees are the best around and it is due to their care and constant attention to detail that we can provide the best tape on the market today.

We have been busy in the past year working on growing our customer base and the products we can provide them. To do this we added a new inside sales position. We also took it upon ourselves to become ISO9001:2015 registered, which was not an easy process. We didn’t undertake this because we were told to do it by a customer, we did it because we wanted to be better.

Over the course of these last 20 years, we have experienced tremendous growth. Our expectations for Advantage Adhesives for the next 20 years is to continue to make Advantage a better place to work for our employees, increase our capabilities, develop new ways to be able to enhance our customers ability to interact with us, and continue to make it easy for our customers to work with us. We owe our highest thanks to our customers, suppliers and employees as we continue our growth during the next 20 years.

If you are an existing customer call us to talk about your new requirements. If you are not yet one of our customers, please give us a call and we will show you what we can do for you.

Welcome to the next 20 years!

Advantage Adhesives, Inc. attains registration to the ISO 9001:2015 standard.

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Rancho Cucamonga, CA – October 10, 2017 – Advantage Adhesives, Inc. is proud to announce its successful registration to the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System standard by Bureau Veritas, effective October 10, 2017.

Our decision to obtain ISO 9001 registration was driven by a desire to meet customer needs and to increase customer satisfaction, and demonstrates our commitment to providing a high-quality and consistent product to our customers.

To become ISO 9001 compliant, AAI underwent an evaluation process that included quality management system development, a management system documentation review, pre-audit, initial assessment, and clearance of non-conformances. This process has, and will continue to drive improvement in our products and processes.

For your records, AAI’s registration numbers and scope are as follows:

Standard: ISO 9001:2015

Certificate Number: US010670

Scope: The manufacture and sale of adhesive coated tapes, as well as other coating, slitting, and spooling activities.

An electronic copy of our certificate of registration can be found on our website: www.advantageadhesives.com.

Advantage Adhesives, Inc. Hires Lucien Adan as the Inside Sales Representative

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Rancho Cucamonga, CA – October 1, 2017 – Advantage Adhesives, Inc. is happy to announce that Lucien Adan has been hired as an Inside Sales Representative. Lucien brings a great deal of experience in Business Development and will help create partnerships with new clients.Lucien has more than 18 years of sales and marketing experience in the financial and whole sale distribution industries. He brings with him the skill set needed to create strong relationships and above and beyond satisfied clients.
Lucien grew up in New York City where he started his Sales career in the financial services industry. He moved to California in 2006 to pursue a business opportunity and become a co-owner of a Wholesale Distribution company. In his free time he enjoys coaching his kids’ soccer teams and going camping with them.

Advantage Adhesives, Inc. Hires Chris Powell as Quality Manager

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Rancho Cucamonga, CA – June 21, 2016 – Advantage Adhesives, Inc. is proud to announce that Chris Powell has been hired as Quality Manager. Chris brings a great deal of experience in Quality Management to the table and will help to maintain our strict standards of quality as well as lead us into some new and exciting improvements.

Chris has more than 16 years of experience in the silicone release liner industry (and close to 19 in manufacturing), with an extensive Quality and Product Development background. He has worked with film, paper, and polycoated substrates; UV and thermal silicones; as well as water based inks and other coatings. Chris also has experience with a variety of coating, printing, and slitting processes across a broad spectrum of web widths.

Chris is originally from Massachusetts, but has lived in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Delaware, and has recently moved to California. He speaks fluent Spanish, a skill he acquired when he was stationed outside of Madrid while in the Air Force. Chris has been married for almost 25 years, and his wife is from Spain.