tesa: A Global Adhesive Tape Manufacturer

With over 100 years’ experience, tesa is one of the leading global brands of adhesive tape built on consistent quality and innovation. Our range includes double sided tapes, masking tapes, protection tapes, safety tapes, cloth tapes, duct tapes and packaging tapes, together with many speciality adhesive tapes developed for specific industrial and consumer applications.

tesa industry provides adhesive tape solutions amongst others for the automotive industry, flexographic printing, corrugator packaging, newspaper printing and paper production to decorating and construction. Our consumer division’s range has adhesive tape products for many areas of use in everyday as well as glue sticks and correction rollers for the office to insect protection and DIY solutions for the home. With 50% of our sales coming from products developed in the last 5 years, over 200 people employed in Research and Development in tesa's laboratories around the world and an average of 70 patents filed a year, tesa is clearly a leader in adhesive tapes.


In 2001 tesa SE and tesa UK were formed as wholly owned subsidiaries of Beiersdorf AG , also responsible for NIVEA, the world’s No.1 skin-care brand, meaning more product innovation, faster to market times and enhanced service to our customers.

tesa is also proud to be an official member of the UN initiative for the enforcement of fundamental human and social rights, as well as for ethically responsible action, the Global Compact.