RAF Industries Buys U.S. Tape and Expands

U.S. Tape was sold again in 1998 to RAF Industries, the present owners. Keeping the name U.S. Tape, they ex­panded to include a forestry product line, added a pri­vate label program which has been successful and continued to make tapes for the United State govern­ment. U.S. Tape remains one of the last companies manufacturing tape measures in the United States. By being able to offer more personal service and fill or­ders faster, they are able to compete with companies that are outsourcing. The company Justus Roe founded in 1876 is still producing steel tape measures. This many years of innovations and creative im­provements on the steel tape measure is truly a remark­able achievement.