1) Scotch tape is not wound up in the factory in the little rolls found in stores. (2) During the manufacturing process, sheets of cellophane several feet wide are first run through a machine that coats them with adhesive. (3) that, a machine winds the sticky film around tubes that are also several feet wide. (4) Next, this wide roll of Scotch tape is fed through a slicing machine, which produces the thin rolls of tape sold to consumers.