ESD Conductive Adhesives

Without conductive adhesives, ESD tiles would have no place to discharge unwanted static charges; every tile would be like an isolated island – charges would be stuck on individual tiles with no place to go. Staticworx® conductive adhesives enable an ESD floor to do its job by conducting static electricity back to the earth.

Conductive adhesives act as a ground plane, providing electrical continuity between every ESD tile in a room. They don’t just hold the floor in place; they pull static away form the tile surface. That’s because electricity flows to the path of least resistance. So when static charges contact the top of the floor, they dissipate through the floor to the conductive adhesive ground plane and on to ground – safely and effectively. Conductive adhesives are the path of least resistance.

Old Way of installing ESD floorsThe OLD Way of Installing Broadloom and other ESD FloorsGrounding a Staticworx® floor is straight forward and easy. Our adhesives eliminate the need for expensive copper equipotential grounding grids of the past; the conductive adhesive is linked to ground with copper connector strips. The strips can be attached to electrical conduit, building steel or a dedicated grounding bar. Copper ground connectors are 24” long and are supplied with every Staticworx® flooring shipment. Only one connection is necessary for every 1000 square feet of contiguous ESD flooring.

Conductive Adhesive Options

Choose from the menu below to find the appropriate conductive adhesive for ESD flooring:

Adhesive Options ESD Carpet Tile ESD Vinyl Tile ESD EC Rubber Rubber Static Dissipative Tiles and Sheet EC Rubber Sheet ESD Vinyl Sheet
GroundTack Conductive Adhesive** Yes Yes Yes No Yes* Yes
Statbond™ Counductive Adhesive, 1 Part Acrylic** No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Non Conductive, Pressure Sensitive Adhesive No No No No Yes Yes
Conductive, 2-Part Epoxy Adhesive No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dry, Conductive Adhesive
(available in rolls)
Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes
Staticfix, flooring installation tape (adhesive alterative), available in rolls Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

*Contact Staticworx for specific details at 617-923-2000.
**Available for immediate shipment

Available in 1-gallon and 4-gallon pails, Groundtack and Statbond ESD, Conductive Adhesives can be ordered directly from Staticworx.

Moisture Test KitUnderstanding Moisture and Adhesives

You need to understand moisture vapor testing before installing any static control flooring adhesives on new or old concrete. Be sure to test your concrete for moisture. Order a Moisture Test Kit, also known as a Anhydrous Calcium Chloride Moisture Test Kit, from Staticworx for $14.00 + shipping.

Taking The Mystery Out Of Selecting ESD Flooring

Choices Abound, But Careful Planning Is Essential In Making The Right Choice
Publication: 
Conformity Magazine
Publish Date: 
02/12/2002

Often, the most challenging and anxiety-inducing decisions buyers encounter in the course of creating a world-class electrostatic discharge (ESD) program involve the selection of the ESD floor. Unlike other components in the program, the installation of static control flooring represents a permanent capital investment, with costs of 1 1/2 to 2 times those of a standard non-ESD floor.Read more

New Article "Specifying Static-free Floors: ESD sensitivity and risks for personal safety and electronic equipment"

Mon, 10/10/2011
ESD Flooring Specification
ESD Management / Grounding Safety
ESD Static Control Flooring

Static electricity discharge (ESD) creates problems for manufacturers and users of electronic equipment. One way to combat ESD is to install static free flooring in environments like data centers and mission critical areas where static discharges can not be tolerated under any circumstances. Unfortunately as much as 50% of static control flooring is specified incorrectly leaving specifiers open to liability and possible safety concerns.Read more

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How To Meet ANSI/ESD S20.20 With ESD Flooring

Wed, 07/27/2011
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Qualify ESD Flooring the Easy Way: Testing Static-Safe Flooring for Electronics Handling and Manufacturing Environments ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007, "Protection of Electrical and Electronic Parts, Assemblies and Equipment provides administrative and technical requirements for establishing, implementing, and maintaining an ESD Control Program to protect electrical or electronic parts, assemblies, and equipment susceptible to ESD damage from Human Body Model (HBM) discharges greater than or equal to 100 volts.Read more

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Dispatch Center Stays Grounded With New Equipment and Staticworx Anti Static Flooring

Case History: Police in Lowell, MA, Answer the Call
Author: 
Dave Long
Publication: 
ECPM
Publish Date: 
01/01/2010

The job of police departments is to serve and protect. In their emergency dispatch centers, staff must be prepared 24/7, responding to situations that may threaten lives in the community. But what personnel are typically not prepared for is how to deal with the "invisible threat" of electrostatic discharge (ESD). More and more, police communications centers are discovering that the need for protection also extends to the installation of the right anti-static flooring to keep work sites safe.Read more

Are You Grounded with Anti Static Flooring?: A Fault-Tolerant Flooring Solution

To Control Static in Emergency 9-1-1 Dispatch Call Centers
Author: 
Dave Long
Publication: 
ECPM
Publish Date: 
01/01/2010

Do you have the latest revision of grounding standard Motorola R56? ATIS-0600321? If you are trying to prevent ESD in spaces where telecommunication equipment is used you need to know about grounding and safety around electrified equipment.Read more

Meeting Standards: Static-Safe Flooring for Offices, Call Centers, and Other Mission-Critical Environments

What you need to reference when writing a performance specification for anti static ESD flooring for networked offices, 911 dispatch call centers, telecommunications areas, call and communication centers and FAA flight control spaces

ESD Flooring: Static Dissipative vs. Static Conductive

Wed, 03/02/2011
Anti Static for Beginners
ESD Static Control Flooring
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Static dissipative flooring or conductive flooring, which one should I use? This video covers this conflict as well as meeting the ESD flooring criteria required in ANSI/ESD S20.20. This video relates to issues involving handling static sensitive devices in an ESD control program.

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