If you've never heard of 233+, then ask any auto body shop. They'll tell you that the Ontario-produced tape is the world's go-to masking tape for returning dinged cars to former glory. Its history ...

PITTSBURGH, June 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- An inventor from Belmont, Nova Scotia, Canada, has developed the REVERSE MASK DISPENSER, a special masking tape dispenser for professional automotive body ...

When Richard Drew, who worked for the 3M company, found out about this issue while delivering sandpaper (then 3M’s primary product) to auto body shops, he developed masking tape to solve it.

Masking tape simplified the process of painting two ... and often resulted in a sticky mess. Drew walked into an auto body shop one day and heard the "choicest profanity I'd ever known" coming ...