3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N

The 3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N is a highly specialized duct tape ideally suited for demanding applications in nuclear power plants, ship building, and steel fabrication industries. It is commonly used for sealing, holding, identification, and protection. This tape resists wear, abrasion, moisture, and UV exposure for up to 12 months. Indoors or outdoors, the 3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N removes cleanly—residue free—up to six months after application on most opaque surfaces. It resists delamination and deterioration from wear, abrasion, moisture, and weathering for up to a year of UV exposure. The thick rubber adhesive attaches well to masonry and other rough surfaces, yet removes cleanly after as much as six months in the sun, leaving little or no adhesive residue.

The 3M™ Performance Plus Duct Tape 8979N provides a tight seal for containment operations such as attaching heavy poly draping and closing cuffs. It has the high tensile strength necessary for heavy bundling, reinforcing, tabbing, taping, capping, and splicing materials including piping, conduit, and insulation. It conforms to irregular and curved surfaces, resists curling, tears off the roll cleanly, is hand-tearable, and can be written on. This tape is available in a distinctive red or slate blue colour, making it easily identifiable. In addition to the nuclear power industry, it is used in shipbuilding, stainless steel production, construction, electrical, industrial, marine, and military applications where low leachable halides and sulphur are required.