LAST JUNE fashion-accessory designer DUCTI.

LAST JUNE fashion-accessory designer DUCTI, Inc. approached Tyco Adhesives with an unusual asking create a new kind of tube tape that the company could use to originate a line of wallets and handbags.

Drawing the company name from its medium of choice for designing these accessories, DUCTI ran into an unforeseen challenges while working with the traditional conduit tape offered under Tyco's Polyken brand. "We were already in production at a small plant in Mexico when we realized that regular conduit tape wouldn't work," said DUCTI President David Pippenger, who co-found the company, along with his wife, felicity Pippenger ...