Butyl Tapes
At H.B. Fuller, we manufacture a full line of butyl tapes that offer industry-leading performance in sealing, waterproofing, and bonding applications. Our tapes are designed for maximum durability, flexibility, and ease of use, ensuring superior results across multiple industries.
What are Butyl Tapes?
Butyl tapes are adhesive sealing tapes made from butyl rubber, a synthetic rubber known for its excellent waterproofing, weather resistance, and strong adhesion properties. These tapes are commonly used for sealing, bonding, and waterproofing in various industries, including construction, automotive, and roofing.
Key Features of Butyl Tapes
From its exceptional waterproofing capabilities to its outstanding adhesion on diverse surfaces, butyl tapes are a reliable solution for your sealing and bonding needs:
- Superior Waterproofing & Weather Resistance – Highly effective against moisture, UV rays, and extreme temperatures.
- Excellent Adhesion to Multiple Surfaces – Bonds well to a variety of substrates, including metal, glass, plastic, concrete, and wood.
- Flexible – Can conform to irregular surfaces and gaps for a secure seal. Remains flexible over time, unlike some traditional sealants. Low temperature flexibility.
- Easy to Apply – Applied very easily, making it simple to install and handle. No mess or dripping.
- Chemical & Corrosion Resistant – Resistant to oils, chemicals, and aging, making it durable.
Key Markets
Because our butyl tapes create such an excellent, flexible, long-lasting seal with predictable movement characteristics, it has many uses on a wide range of projects across the world:
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Metal Building & Cladding
Butyl tapes play a crucial role in metal building and cladding applications, providing strength, flexibility, and structural protection. Our products are tailored to the specific needs of metal construction, including side and end lap joints, fixing top/weather sheets, compression joints, fixing foam fillers, roof lights, gutters and flashings.
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Metal Roofing
Our butyl tapes are manufactured in all common sizes for metal roofing applications and tested to meet or exceed building standards and specifications. Ideal for sealing and repairing joints, seams, and cracks in roofs, our butyl tapes deliver strong adhesion and durability.
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Water Management Systems
Butyl tapes are essential for ensuring watertight connections, structural integrity, and long-term durability of water management systems. From precast concrete infrastructure to sectional tanks and geomembranes, our products ensure joints are watertight, flexible, and durable.
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HVAC & Duct Sealing
Butyl tapes are widely used for sealing flanges and connections in HVAC ducts due to their superior adhesion, ease of application, solvent-free formulation, longevity, and large joint movement capability. Our butyl tapes are ideal for creating an air, dust, and water seal, protecting ductwork and ventilation systems from air leakage and water damage.
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Wet Rooms
Our butyl tapes play a critical role in the construction of wet rooms, ensuring waterproofing, durability, and the integrity of the space. Our products are used for sealing round the edge of fixtures, drains, and floor and wall joints, making them watertight and leak-free.
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Vehicle Construction
Butyl tapes are used for all kinds of vehicle construction applications – from trucks to caravans and RVs, from boats to buses. Our tapes are vital to the integrity of many vehicles’ structures, used for gap-filling, sound deadening, and sealing around roofs, panels, windows, mouldings, rails, rooflights, aerials, and doors.
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Electrical Applications
Our butyl tapes are ideal for sealing and protecting joints in electrical cables, sealing in and around junction boxes, and low voltage cable repair. Butyl tape has excellent electrical insulation properties while the PVC backing gives the tape extra strength with excellent chemical resistance, weather resistance and corrosion resistance.
H.B. Fuller – Your Butyl Tape Partner
Proven in the marketplace and shown to perform for the long term, our products can be found all over the world.
- High-Quality Formulations – Continuous development in R&D and manufacturing technology keeps us at the forefront of butyl tape technology.
- Customizable Solutions – Available in various sizes, thicknesses, and formulations. We can also work with you to design, manufacture, and test a bespoke product for your specific needs.
- Tested & Certified – Tested to strict standards, our products meet industry specifications for safety and reliability.
Our Brands
HS Butyl
Global supplier of high quality, proven butyl tapes.
For fifty years HS Butyl have been designing, engineering, and producing butyl tapes. The strength of the HS Butyl reputation has been built on superior product design and technical expertise to ensure the right products and best performance for the job. Find out more.
GSSI
The go-to solution for sealing metal buildings worldwide.
GSSI construction tapes are tested to strict metal building standards and specifications. They are designed to last and provide reliable performance against extreme weather, temperature fluctuations, and UV exposure. Find out more.
