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A smartphone clatters to the ground for the fiftieth time. A tablet display bakes under a sunlamp, an adhesive hook holds its own in icy water and an electric car battery is put on a restricted feeding schedule. These are all everyday occurrences at the largest of tesa’s three Customer Solution Centers (CSCs).

Straw today, gold tomorrow? Though not impossible in fairy tales, everyday industrial reality prefers not to rely on hocus-pocus. Tangible inventions and developments are required if a material is to be replaced with another, better one. This was the case when we set about to create “green” packaging for our famous tesa tape. The trick was to use worn-out and recycled consumer plastic waste (PET-PCR)…