[ARC Tech-109]

I agree, making tape is not cheap and I don't see everyone making their own stuff. Far cheaper and profitable to spec a run from the mass OEMs and call it their own. A work order for say a thousand miles of raw to be slit and packaged might have been a million with a ten fold return, another injection jobber shooting the plastic tape cases on a fire 50-ton Toyo presses at only a few pennies in qty. $4.00/finished to the retailers who marks it by two and people think they're getting a good deal. Same tape in a different box and nobody knows the difference.