High Volume Nasal Strip Die-Cutting and Contract Manufacturing

Nasal strips must be placed correctly over the bridge of the nose, which is an already challenging location to adhere to. Consumers must be able to successfully line up and place the product without contaminating the exposed adhesive with their fingers.

Through JBC’s kiss-cutting capabilities, we can accommodate back-scored liners, allowing consumers to remove only part of the nasal strip liner, leaving the rest of the adhesive covered and protected for easier handling and application.  

 Common Materials:  

Nasal strip adhesives are unique in that they must adhere evenly across the bridge of the nose while resisting the spring-back force generated to dilate the nasal passage.

Selecting an adhesive with high enough shear strength to resist adhesive “creep” and edge lifting is crucial for keeping the strip adhered. Leveraging JBC’s rapid prototyping services to perform real-world wear testing is a quick and low-cost way to validate that your nasal strip stack-up stays adhered under spring-tension and removes safely from different skin-types.  

 Common Materials:

• Acrylic Adhesives – Offer high-initial tack and creep-resistance; Commonly used for overnight wear and high-tension nasal strips 

• Silicone Adhesives – Provide gentle adhesion that removes safely; Commonly used for consumers with sensitive skin 

In nasal strips, the carrier film is a flexible substrate that provides structural support for both the adhesive and the plastic mechanical lift strips. Carrier films must help distribute the mechanical spring force across the entire surface area of the nasal strip, which prevents premature delamination or edge-lifting.

JBC’s inline multilayer laminating capabilities allow us to combine multiple materials together, like the many layers of a nasal strip, in a single machine pass to yield functional multi-layered nose tape products quickly and efficiently.  

 Common Materials:  

The mechanical heart at the center of the nasal dilator strip is the mechanical spring ribbon, which generates the tensioning force required to help flare the nostrils outward. This functional layer must have  high spring-back memory and tensile strength, allowing it to apply a consistent lift-force for the entire wear duration.

Not only do these spring ribbons need to be strategically placed in the same location within each nasal strip footprint, but they also need to be done so repeatably for thousands of high-volume parts. For this, JBC leverages our inline island placement capabilities, which allow us to time the placement of each ribbon so they land in the same precise location on the moving material web of our multi-station rotary die-cutting presses.  

 Common Materials:  

In nasal strips, the top-laminate cover serves as the protective facestock for both aesthetic and functional purposes. The top cover sandwiches the spring ribbons and adhesive carrier together to prevent the ribbons from delaminating or catching on clothing, while providing a soft-to-the-touch user-friendly surface.

For external aesthetic layers like this, JBC’s digital printing capabilities allow us to full-color print branding, instructions, logos, and aesthetic designs right onto the nasal strip fabric itself.  

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Finding a nasal strip manufacturer that understands how to source, combine, and process these dissimilar material layers together is crucial to taking your nasal strip product to market quickly and effectively. 

Not only do we have an extremely knowledgeable technical and process engineering team, but we also have tight relationships with the industry’s leading adhesive suppliers. Working with key suppliers like  Avery Dennison Medical, Avery Dennison Performance Tapes, Solventum, and 3M™, we can ensure you have access to a wide variety of important nasal strip material information and samples.