2022 – A new group
Scapa is now part of Mativ.
Through world-class innovation and unrivalled collaboration with our customers, we are making products and solutions stronger and safer for the industries of today and tomorrow. We will draw on the skills and expertise of our more than 7,500 employees across four continents to drive discovery and unlock the potential of your products to improve people's lives, everywhere, every day.
2018 – Barnier Safety
Barnier launches a range offering tailor-made personal
protection solutions for the hands, adapted to each building activity.
User
safety is of paramount importance these days, this product range has been carefully designed to
meet the new challenges of risk prevention in the workplace.
2018
TAILOR-MADE PROTECTION FOR PROFESSIONALS
Barnier® also offers tailor-made
protection for building professionals.
Because we are familiar with each building trade (and
their evolutions) always involving, sometimes dangerous, the safety of
professionals matters to us.
Thanks to our manufacturers and suppliers,
real partners of confidence with us, more than ever committed to seeing the
quality requirement of our products!
2018
BARNIER FACADE
In 2018, Barnier® launched a new range for
façade
specialists.
A good facade maker uses Barnier® technology
Barnier Façade is composed of 4 essential products:
6095 LE FACADIER, 6098 Green, 6097 Blue, 2994 Black.
To go further in this approach Barnier
provides facadiers with additional products such as strips of mouldings and
reserves, selvedge strips, the facade cloth also gloves.
For
you facadiers!
2016
100 YEARS AND A NEW FACTORY
What better gift than a new production
tool to celebrate this birthday? Is it a combination of circumstances or a real
sign of recognition and willingness to continue activities? There is no chance
in modern affairs.
Luck belongs to the daring. When Scapa® chose to invest in France, chose
to make Barnier® permanent, it is
because the Group recognises the values
of the men and women who make up this company, the values of its brand, and the
dedication of its distributors and end users, the quality of its products,
services and innovations.
Thank you again and we wish you good
business!
100
years, 100% French!
2008
THE GREEN TAPE
The first adhesive tape respectful of environmental
constraints!
Barnier® promotes the logic of respect the
environment by offering an innovative product to construction craftsman. All materials and the production line dedicated to Vert® are standardised, from recycling
and contain neither heavy metals nor DEHP. Its performance and price are
comparable to its cousin the Orange®.
1997
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE GROUP
Scapa® is an ambitious group that makes
multiple acquisitions around the world to become a key player in this market.
One profession: the adhesive tape.
Mastery of all sectors and techniques,
recognition of skills and know-how, Scapa®
is a major player in the sector, in various fields such as automotive
manufacturing, manufacturing of electrical or optical transmission cables,
electronics and for healthcare. So many markets with high demands and precise
processes, to which Scapa responds with recognised quality certifications.
The Barnier®
brand benefits from this highly technical base and the continuous improvement
of these processes, which enhances the quality of its products. The
Scapa Group is an improvement engine for Barnier®.
1993
THE SCAPA GROUP'S COMMITMENT
Scapa® acquires
and invests heavily in the modernisation of the production tool.
The Valence site becomes the worldwide expert in the
group of adhesive tapes for the construction market!
Barnier® becomes the specialist of Pros!
Innovation, commitment to respect for
people and the environment are at the heart of our ambitions. New
products are offered: Thermofilm®,
tape glue and Bandetanche®.
1970
BIRTH OF 6095, THE ORANGE® THE TRUE!
A revolutionary product is launched!
Initially dedicated to formwork joining, its strengths make it one of the most
appreciated products of the construction craftsmen: an easy unwinding and
adhesiveness in all weather, on all media, whatever the temperature of
application!
Many actors try to copy it without
success. To cope with the demand, a second factory is built.
1945
A FRONT-GARDISTE PLANT!
Allies bomb a stocks of enemy munitions
stationed in Valence. The damage to the plant is considerable. We must
rebuild. The new buildings, independent of each other, prevent any risk of
spreading fires, thus preserving the environment: a truly avant-garde construction!
The transformation of plastics is
improving and very quickly the company calendered PVC films and adhesive coating. This is how the range of electrical
insulation tapes "Chatterton" of a new generation is born!
1930
AMAZING INNOVATIONS!
A fire, probably of criminal origin,
destroys all the installations. Tenacious and inventive, Barnier's research is
oriented towards the transformation of plastics:
○ Extruded in round dies around a coated woven film, the formed cord is the ancestor of our garden
hoses!
○ Extruded in flat die and in
different colours, these plastic slats grouped in cross-sections gave birth to
filtering curtains ... and decorate numbers for doors!
1916
FOUNDING FATHERS
It all starts with the entrepreneurial
spirit of Dauphinois engineers. A family composed of Pierre-Eugène Barnier, his two sons Pierre-Benjamin and André Barnier, and Jean Vallernaud.
They invented the double-sided "Chatterton" fabric whose insulating, sustaining and long-lasting properties quickly
made it the favourite of electrical installers. Soon the range for electrical
insulation extends with the coating of varnished canvases.
