Tapex
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Tapex makes adhesive tapes and plastic wrap films used in electronics manufacturing, food packaging, and everyday household and industrial settings.
It supplies battery makers, display and semiconductor manufacturers, and automotive producers with specialist tapes, while also providing food-service wrap, insulating tape, stretch film, and kitchen products to commercial and retail customers. Listed on KOSPI, Korea's main stock exchange, the company operates two distinct divisions, electronic materials and consumer goods, with electronic materials tapes for rechargeable batteries forming its core growth product line.
Summary is AI-generated and may contain errors · figures from DART filings
Tapex expanded into electronic materials by acquiring Unilab, giving it a consumer-goods base alongside its industrial tape operations under one consolidated entity.
Tapex in five facts
What does Tapex do?
Tapex makes adhesive tapes and plastic wrap films used in electronics manufacturing, food packaging, and everyday household and industrial settings.
Where is Tapex listed and in which sector?
Tapex (Korean name: 테이팩스) trades under KRX code 055490 on KOSPI, the main board of the Korea Exchange. It is classified in the Materials sector, Chemicals.
How large is Tapex?
Its market capitalisation was US$69.4M on 2026-10-21, which puts it in this site's small-cap group. US$ amounts are converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21).
What were Tapex's latest annual revenue and operating profit?
For fiscal year 2025, Tapex reported revenue of US$106.5M, operating profit of US$1.9M and net income of US$1.5M, per its annual report on DART (data retrieved from DART on 2026-09-17). Revenue was up 3.8% on the previous year.
Where does this data come from?
Financial statements and filings come from DART, Korea's official corporate-filing system. Share prices, market capitalisation and trading status come from KRX. Company summaries are AI-generated from the filings and may contain errors; financial figures are mapped directly from DART.
Data sources and last updated
- Filings and financial statements
- DART (dart.fss.or.kr), Korea's official corporate-filing system
- Prices, market cap, trading status
- KRX (Korea Exchange), via FinanceDataReader
- Latest annual financials
- Fiscal year 2025, data retrieved from DART on 2026-09-17
- Share price and market cap
- Close of 2026-10-21
- Currency
- US$, converted from won at 1 USD ≈ ₩1,325 (2026-10-21 close)
- Company data updated
- 2026-10-21
- Company summary
- AI-generated from filings; may contain errors. Information only, not investment advice.
- Cash/in-kind dividend decision
Tapex declared a cash dividend of US$0.14 per share.
Dividend · Feb 5 - Change of 30% or more in revenue or profit/loss structure (15% for large companies)
Tapex reported consolidated results for FY2025: revenue of US$96.8M (+4% year on year), operating profit of US$1.72M (+75.8% year on year) and net income of US$1.39M (−43.3% year on year).
Earnings · Feb 5