Built from the Shop Floor Up
IPG — Intertape Polymer Group — was founded in Sarasota, Florida in 1981 by engineers who believed that adhesive tape was being under-engineered for the demands of the construction trades. The founding philosophy was straightforward: if a tape is going into a wall cavity, onto ductwork, or onto a building envelope, it needs to perform for the life of the building — not just pass a shelf-life test.
That conviction drove the company to build its own polymer compounding and extrusion capability in-house, rather than outsourcing formulation to commodity suppliers. Today, IPG controls every step of its manufacturing process — from polymer blending and film extrusion to adhesive coating, slitting, and quality control — across 14 North American plants.
The result is a tape line where our technical team can actually explain why a product holds at -40°F, or why the adhesive doesn't cold-flow at 200°F in a mechanical room — because we designed it that way, and we have the test data to back it up.
