Supreme x Nichiban Packing Tape
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
Nichiban is a Japanese adhesive manufacturer founded in Tokyo in 1918, producing medical tape, office tape, and industrial adhesives for over a century. The company is best known domestically for Cellotape — the Japanese generic term for clear office tape — and for Bando-Aid adhesive bandages. Their OPP packing tape uses an oriented polypropylene film with a pressure-sensitive acrylic adhesive, rated for sealing corrugated boxes across temperature ranges common to shipping. It's a standard supply in Japanese households, post offices, and small businesses. The SS26 Supreme collab is a branded roll with the box logo printed across the film.
About Nichiban
Nichiban is a Japanese adhesive products manufacturer founded in January 1918 and headquartered in Tokyo. The company began by producing adhesive plasters and medical tapes, then adapted that adhesive technology to introduce the first prototypes of Cellotape, Japan's self-adhesive cellulose tape, in 1948. Nichiban's current catalog spans surgical tapes and bandages for hospitals, industrial masking and packaging tapes, and stationery products including Cellotape and Mylabel. Cellotape has been a fixture in Japanese households and schools for over seventy years. Supreme's collaboration with Nichiban applies the box logo to a product most Japanese consumers have used since childhood.
