About Filmquest
Your Integrated Turnkey Partner For Unique Solutions that Fulfill The Most Challenging Unmet Needs!
Duraco Specialty Materials® is a uniquely positioned performance materials company, leading in cutting-edge specialty tapes, precision-converted parts, advanced functional coatings, and custom release liner solutions.
Composed of three business units, Duraco Specialty Tapes & Liners, Duraco FlexPack, and Duraco Laminated Solutions, we’re dedicated to meeting the unique needs of our customers with best-in-class service and responsiveness.
Duraco Specialty Tapes & Liners is a leading manufacturer of specialty tapes, which are sold into highly attractive end markets including point-of-purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and HVAC.
Application-specific tapes are strong alternatives to mechanical fasteners and traditional glues, offering longevity, strength, and efficiencies in customer assembly operations.
Duraco FlexPack combines the history and vast wealth of flexible packaging experience of Filmquest (Questar PET films, Questar metalized PET films, Questar lidding films & Questar Soft Touch films) and Rayven (Soft Touch Matte & Ultra-Soft Touch Matte PET film).
By unifying these legendary brands Duraco FlexPack provides one of the largest portfolio offerings of film and coating solutions in the industry, continually advancing as we develop new solutions to satisfy the varied needs of our customers.
Duraco Laminated Solutions, made up of 3 Sigma and Strata-Tac, manufactures cutting-edge pressure-sensitive adhesive products with a wide range of face stocks, coatings, adhesives, and liners that let us build the exact product you’re looking for. Duraco Laminated Solutions works with customers to manufacture both custom and stock products to meet the unique specifications of a wide variety of applications across multiple markets and industries. Key market segments include food & beverage, business forms, graphics, product security, industrial, health & beauty, retail & promotional, durable & outdoor, and toll coating. This versatility allows us to offer more design options, quicker production, and the opportunity to grow through diversification and speed of service.
The diversity of the Duraco Specialty Materials portfolio is unmatched with a broad array product offerings and manufacturing expertise, integrating the top-tier products and production capabilities of:
- Duraco’s 75+ year legacy of innovation in specialty tapes
- Infinity Tapes and Liners
- Rayven’s flexible packaging and liner solutions
- Filmquest’s technical films and coatings
- 3 Sigma’s custom tapes and labels
- Strata-Tac’s multi-layer constructions
Proudly produced in the USA, Duraco Specialty Materials® empowers thousands of businesses across retail, decor, e-commerce, flexible packaging, healthcare, and industrial sectors to thrive with tailor-made, innovative solutions. As an industry leader, Duraco Specialty Materials® leverages an integrated and seamless approach that guides customers from concept to market success with a proven portfolio of trusted solutions.
About Filmquest Group, Inc.
Filmquest Group is the largest merchant converter of polyester films in the USA, supplying the market exclusively with Questar® brand polyester films, complemented with a full range of value-added products. Questar® Polyester Films portfolio includes PET and Coated films. Questar® brand coated films include Soft Touch matte, no gloss matte, high barrier, heat sealable, anti-fog, shrink, anti-static, polymer pigmented, PCR, tactile, and Nanoshield® clear high barrier film.
Filmquest is part of the Duraco family of companies. Duraco Specialty Tapes LLC is a leading manufacturer of pressure-sensitive tapes and specialty materials.
The Duraco family of companies are a portfolio company of Open Gate Capital.
Filmquest’s extensive technical capabilities include a full testing laboratory, coating, and high-tolerance slitting. Filmquest’s success has been grounded in decades of market experience, consistent quality and award-winning customer service, along with continued innovation throughout the company. Filmquest supplies converters that print, coat, laminate, and further convert all grades of polyester film.
Filmquest’s Locations
Headquartered in Bolingbrook, IL, Filmquest has world class polyester film converting and warehousing facilities with over one million pounds of inventory available every day for immediate shipment and conversion. That allows Filmquest to accommodate most rush orders within 24 hours including custom film configurations.
Polyester Film Is Filmquest’s Business
Filmquest offers the widest range of PET films available. Film can be supplied to meet industry specifications including corona and chemical treatments, specialty coatings, anti-static, heat sealable, PvDC, colored, anti-fog, hazy, ultra-clear, shrinkable, twistable, and other market and performance-driven properties.
Filmquest is the film converting industry’s premier resource for research and development, technical information, and lab and production samples. The market information Filmquest acquires is both local and global, giving customers the benefits of in-depth industry expertise.
Why Choose Filmquest?
Service
Flexible and nimble to meet lead time requirements and material orders via phone, 630-226-9800, email, sales@petfilm.com, or fax, 630-226-9400.
Added Value
Coated PET Film and metalized PET film for premium performance at a competitive price for an optimized total cost
Quality
Questar™ Polyester Film is ISO Compliant and FDA Approved.
On March 2, 2021, Filmquest was acquired by Duraco Specialty Tapes LLC, an OpenGate Capital portfolio company, and a leading manufacturer of pressure sensitive tapes and specialty materials. Filmquest is one of four portfolio companies purchased by Duraco since 2020, and is now part of the Duraco Specialty Materials family of companies. Duraco Specialty Materials comprises three innovative business units, Duraco Direct, Duraco Specialty Films & Labels, and Duraco Specialty Coatings & Release Liner. The integration of these companies advances Filmquest’s mission to expand into other industries and complement its overall product offerings.
To learn more about these innovative and complementary companies, please review the company descriptions below and click on the links to be directed to their websites.
Conveniently located in Forest Park, IL, Duraco’s headquarters is the heart of quality manufactured products and efficient distribution. As a leading manufacturer and supplier with over 65 years of knowledge and experience, Duraco helps companies find specialty tape solutions for their desired application. From the beginning of design conception to the end of production, customers can count on Duraco’s team of experts. Duraco provides innovative adhesive solutions and top-quality customer service, and is the one-stop-shop to meet the adhesive needs of customers.
Visit Duraco’s website for more information.
3 Sigma is one of the most versatile manufacturers in the pressure sensitive adhesives industry. Product lines include custom labels, custom tape, custom release liners, transfer tape/adhesives, double-sided tape, single-sided tape, circle coupons, and tamper evident tape/labelstock. 3 Sigma is one of the few companies that offer hot-melt, emulsion, and solvent-based adhesive technologies under one roof, along with various coating capabilities.
Visit 3 Sigma’s website for more information.
Infinity Tapes is a USA manufacturer of double coated tapes, adhesive transfer tapes, tamper evident films and tapes, and silicone coated papers and films. Infinity Tapes provides customers with the highest quality products and customer service and has the capability to provide custom solutions in formulation and conversion to meet specific application needs.
Visit Infinity Tapes’s website for more information.
Rayven is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company with over 60 years of experience manufacturing custom silicone release liners and pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) products. Founded in 1954, Rayven has grown from one coating line producing polyester label stock, to two manufacturing plants: one in St. Paul, Minnesota and the newest facility in Owatonna, Minnesota. Rayven is an industry leader and has many capabilities that include coating (silicone and PSA), converting and packaging.
Visit Rayven’s website for more information.
Strata-Tac is a leading manufacturer of pressure sensitive self-adhesive products and top coated films, delivering a wide range of products to the converting market, combining various face stocks, coatings, adhesives, and liners since 1995.
Visit StrataTac’s website for more information.
Professional and Industry Associations
Individually and collectively, each of the Duraco Specialty Materials companies are committed to our industry’s future and to its continued growth. A sense of community and the mentorship of tomorrows leaders are both important, so you’ll see us supporting these likeminded organizations through membership or involvement of our executives on their leadership committees.
