Planning to install anti static flooring?

Does it make sense to buy ESD tiles or computer grade floors that won't work unless you make your people wear heel straps?

Some ESD flooring materials provide static protection regardless of footwear or environment.

Have a static problem but you're not sure if you need an anti-static floor or a conductive one?Confused about the differences between ESD grade carpet and static dissipative tile?

These are common dilemmas for many architects and manufacturing engineers. Most people buy their static mats and ESD floors based on properties like electrical resistance and conductivity. In principle this seems like a good practice. Unfortunately, static control floors perform very differently de

pending on the application and the environment. Some ESD flooring only provides antistatic properties when used in conjunction with static control footwear. Special footwear is often impractical.

This article, Choosing The Right ESD Flooring, will help you find the right antistatic carpet or ESD tile for applications as diverse as call centers, server rooms, flight towers or electronic manufacturing.
 

Curing Static Electricity Damage In a Communications Center

A good-quality, high-performance conductive floor is the only fail-safe means of effectively controlling static in a mission-critical environment or communications center.

Read this recently published article about successfully combating static electricity in a communictaions centers.

You’ve been asked to recommend a static-free tile or epoxy coating by your most important client but you don’t even know where to begin. So much to learn, all that jargon:

ESD rubber or dissipative vinyl? conductive tile or antistatic epoxy? grounded or low kv

computer carpet? charge generation or resistance to ground? Burroughs IBM standard or ESD standard? dissipative carpeting or Staticguard spray? Armstrong SDT or permanently conductive ESD tile? Special installer or regular flooring crew?

Relax - you can do it!

Start with this simple overview and then a visit to our glossary of the 21 most commonly used words in ESD flooring.

AT&T Study of ESD Floors

This study of ESD floors is considered to be the finest examination of ESD flooring options ever conducted by an unbiased third party. Find out why rubber offers the lowest total cost of ownership ESD floor covering based upon a two year examination of: conductive and dissipative vinyl ESD tile, antistatic and dissipative rubber ESD tile and various conductive ESD epoxy coatings. Please note: Due to clean room considerations associated with AT&T's microelectronics facility, this study omitted ESD carpeting and ESD carpet tile.

Please refer to the article Choosing The Right ESD Floor For Laboratory and Technical Environments for information about the suitability of ESD carpeting in electronics handling environments.