3M VHB Tape RP45

Unleash your imagination, implement your designs, and deliver results with 3M™ VHB™ Tape RP45. This is a gray, 

0.045-inch (1.1 mm) multi-purpose acrylic adhesive tape with an easy-to-conform foam core. It can replace rivets, 

welds, and screws. This fast and easy permanent bonding method provides exceptional strength and durability. 

Its viscoelastic properties allow for flexible design, enabling bonding to a variety of surfaces at lower temperatures.

The Convenience of Extreme Bonding Power

3M™ VHB™ Tapes contain durable acrylic adhesives with viscoelastic properties. This is an extraordinary, powerful double-sided 

foam tape that bonds to a variety of substrates, including aluminum, stainless steel, galvanized steel, composites, acrylics, 

polycarbonate, ABS, and painted or sealed wood and concrete. Our bonding tapes offer excellent shear strength, conformability, 

surface adhesion, and temperature resistance. They are commonly used in many market applications, including transportation, 

appliances, electronics, construction, signs and displays, and general industrial. Bond a variety of materials quickly, strongly, 

and reliably for a permanent bond.

Recommended Applications

Decorative materials and trim

Nameplates and logos

Electronic displays

Panel frame bonding

Stiffener panel bonding

3M™ VHB™ Tape RP45 is an easy-to-conform acrylic foam tape with a multi-purpose adhesive that performs well in a variety of applications.

Unleash your imagination, implement your designs, and deliver results with the RP Series 3M™ VHB™ Tapes

The RP Series 3M™ VHB™ Tapes use a modified acrylic adhesive coated on both sides of an easy-to-conform foam core. 

The combination of strength, conformability, and adhesion characteristics makes this series one of the most powerful and versatile 

3M™ VHB™ Tapes. Specifically designed for strong bonding to high, medium, and low surface energy plastics and coatings, metals, and glass. 

Applications for this tape include bonding and sealing polycarbonate lenses on LCDs and bonding logos and windows to painted control panels. 

Extraordinary Foam Tapes

We introduced 3M™ VHB™ tapes in the 1980s, the first of their kind. These unique tapes combine ease of application with strong, 

permanent bonding properties. This results in an exceptionally strong tape series that can bond to many substrates. 

3M™ VHB™ tapes are a proven alternative to screws, rivets, welding, and other forms of mechanical fasteners. 

Skyscrapers, mobile phones, electronic highway signs, refrigerators, architectural windows, and more rely on this special adhesive 

tape for one or more steps in their assembly, installation, fastening, and sealing processes. 

This trusted and reliable tape provides consistent adhesion, excellent durability, and resistance to solvents and moisture. 

3M stands behind its products, providing design guidance and technical support whenever and wherever you need it.

Proven Reliability from 3M™ VHB™ Tapes

3M™ VHB™ tapes provide durable bonding in ways that mechanical fasteners cannot. This tape can replace rivets and screws and 

achieve immediate handling strength, improving the finished appearance. In most cases, fastening with 3M™ VHB™ tape is a faster 

process than drilling, fastening, or using liquid adhesives. Our versatile range of tapes can be used in a variety of indoor and outdoor 

applications, including windows, doors, signage assembly, electronics, construction, and many other industrial applications. 

3M™ VHB™ tapes are chemically resistant and UV and temperature stable, able to withstand the heat of Dubai and the cold of Canada. 

The unique acrylic chemistry is extremely durable and does not change over time, making it a trusted and long-lasting strong tape.

Bringing Better Ideas to Bonding Surfaces Through Science and Innovation

At 3M Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Division, we apply the science of adhesion to deliver innovative solutions that improve 

the design and manufacturing processes of companies around the world. Ultimately, our technology helps customers like you 

bring competitive products to market faster and more efficiently.