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Why Do My Higher Part Quantities Have a Lower Price Per Part?
Why purchase a whole box of cereal when you could buy it one spoonful at a time? Simply ...
Which 3M VHB Should You Use? 3M VHB Tape Selection Guide
Is VHB Tape intended for ‘Violent Hairy Beasts’? Thankfully, no. Manufacturers use 3M’s ...
Thermally Conductive Adhesives Guide
Winning the lottery… eating at a Michelin-star restaurant… choosing a thermally ...
Why Won’t My Converter Quote My Project Without Knowing the Application?
A design’s purpose provides the baseline for creating any product. Without the proper ...
How EV Battery Production is Utilizing Adhesive in 2026
As you’ve likely noticed, rising demand for electric vehicles has led to increased ...
How Converters Help Make EV Batteries More Affordable
With fuel prices rising, battery costs are among the few remaining barriers to EV ...
Types of Medical Skin Adhesives And Their Uses
Super glue might save you in a pinch at home, but I’d shudder at the thought of using it ...
5 Tips for Overcoming Lead Times
Overcoming lead times isn’t about banishing sudden and unexpected circumstances, but ...
How Converters Help Manage Manufacturing Price Increases
Remember when manufacturing costs didn’t feel like a snowball careening downhill?
What Does the Strouse Reorder Process Look Like?
After a successful first run, you’re ready to order more custom products. Yet, you might ...
Touring Your Manufacturer’s Facility: What are the Benefits?
Is your converter secretly one guy in a garage? Probably not, but facility tours can ...
Best Flexible Material Suppliers for 2026
Have you ever opened up something you purchased online, only to realize it wasn’t what ...
Why Do I Need to Pay for Die Cut Tooling?
It’s a common misconception that flexible material converters keep die cutting tools ...
Why Do I Have to Sign a Mutual NDA to Work With an Adhesive Converter?
The birds are singing, the weather is bright and cheerful, and the only thing that could ...
When is Rotary Ultrasonic Welding Effective?
Who among us doesn’t enjoy a little bit of Saturday afternoon USW (Ultrasonic Welding)?
What Happens After I Place my Purchase Order with Strouse?
TLDR: Strouse’s team will finalize your order information and confirm the production ...
What's Included in My Custom Tape Quote and How Can I Compare it?
Nothing is more draining than opening the email with your custom tape quote, only to ...
How Much Does Die Cutting Cost? Tooling, Materials & Labor
Industrial die cut orders range from $500 to millions per year, with prices per part from ...
Top 7 Best Stick to Skin Tapes
DISCLAIMER: For stick-to-skin medical tape intended for personal use, we recommend buying ...
What is Hydrogel, and How is it Used?
Would you ever put jelly on an open wound?
Questions to Ask Before Using Die Cut Hydrogel
Hydrogel has helped us advance far beyond glass eye contacts, but despite its unique ...
Which Die Cut Materials Work Best For Manufacturing?
What would you do if someone handed you a penny and a pair of scissors, then told you to ...
Types of High-Temperature Gasket Materials
Like Michelangelo sketching on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, you’ve got your perfect ...
How Much Do Custom Die Cut Gaskets Cost?
Have you ever paid for a service and thought, “Huh, I wonder if this IS the typical cost.”
Why High Volume Die Cutting Improves Your Bottom Line
Have you ever considered what it would look like to double your production speed?
Reduce Bioburden Using One-Pass Production
Humans shed roughly 500 million skin cells daily. It’s gross, I know, but it also ...
Clean Energy Manufacturing in Die Cutting and Converting
Solar panels have become 60% cheaper and 40% more efficient over the past decade. In ...