esd flooring

Taking The Mystery Out Of Selecting ESD Flooring

Choices Abound, But Careful Planning Is Essential In Making The Right Choice
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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

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

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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

ESD Conductive Adhesives

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 because electricity flows to the path of least resistance. 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.

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.Read more

ESD Flooring: Choosing the Right Static Control ESD Flooring

An ESD Flooring Checklist

Access Floors

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In the networked office, people, equipment and furniture are constantly being moved. That means moving access floor panels and carpet tiles. This can be a time consuming, labor intensive process.

Access is easy and quick, panels can be removed simply without disturbing other panels or carpet.Read more

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Mats and Runners

ESD Floor Runners and Mats are the ideal solution for strategic grounding of aisleways, corridors, and work areas. Aisle-Safe's permanent "static conductive" construction meets any Class 0, DOD 4145.26-M and ANSI/ESD S20.20 requirement. Lay-flat, 2 millimeter thickness allows for easy rolling of chairs and carts without curling.

ESD Floor Runners and Mats: Aisle-Safe:

The ideal solution for strategic grounding of aisleways, corridors, and work areas.

The only light colored static conductive floor runner and matting on the market. Attractive and durable, this ESD safe runner is ideal as a static free bridge between ESD safe areas. It can be used as runner, floor mat, or even as permanent flooring material.Read more

Epoxy Coating

GroundWorx is a budget friendly, static conductive, matte finish, epoxy coating that installs as two coats. This coating was specifically engineered for situations where a substantial investment in high-end flooring might not be justified because the floor space may be temporary or redeployed for other usage in the future. Despite its low cost, GroundWorx ESD Epoxy meets the static control flooring requirements of the 2007 revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20. GroundWorx provides a seamless matte finish to almost any sub-floor surface.

GroundWorx is a budget friendly, static dissipative, matte finish, epoxy coating that installs as two coats.

This coating was specifically engineered for situations where a substantial investment in high end flooring might not be justified because the floor space may be temporary or redeployed for other usage in the future. Despite its low cost, GroundWorx ESD Epoxy meets the static control flooring requirements of the 2007 revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20. GroundWorx provides a seamless matte finish to almost any sub-floor surface.Read more

Vinyl Tile

An ideal option for facilities managers looking for that hospital look of cleanliness and shine. Tough and durable, with an attractive hard surface and antifatigue backing, Staticworx® esd vinyl tiles create an attractive uniform surface that completely eliminates the need for clumsy mats. Staticworx® esd vinyl tiles integrate well with our ESD carpet tile.

An ideal option for facilities managers looking for that hospital look of cleanliness and shine. Tough and durable, with an attractive hard surface and antifatigue backing, Staticworx® esd vinyl tiles create an attractive uniform surface that completely eliminates the need for clumsy mats. Staticworx® esd vinyl tiles integrate well with our ESD carpet tile.

Staticworx® ESD tile can be installed over wood, concrete and access floors.Read more

Why you need to certify the installation

Performs ESD Flooring Audits and Certifies Facilities that Comply with Anti-Static Flooring Standards
Publish Date: 
02/06/2011

WATERTOWN, MA— In an effort to help facilities protect their employees and electronic equipment through flooring that meets electrical safety standards, Staticworx Inc., North America’s largest manufacturer of static-control flooring products and services, has launched a GroundSafe™ Initiative.

Professionals from Staticworx will present Certificates of Compliance to companies that demonstrate they are protecting their worksites on three levels: electrical safety, static control performance, and environmental health.Read more

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