Coatings are high on many facility managers’ lists as the most desirable floor for manufacturing spaces. From a maintenance perspective, epoxy is considered a relatively easy flooring surface to maintain. A well-installed coating doesn’t show any seams or surface variation, so epoxy looks nice. Epoxy floors don’t stain and can be cleaned without much effort.
When people walk or when robots or mobile transport carts move electronic parts and assemblies across a floor, the friction between the floor and shoe soles or casters generates static electricity. Static charges stay in place until the charged person or transport device touches another person or object. If the object happens to be an
Why choose vinyl over another ESD flooring option? There are many reasons. Here are some: Features Well Suited For: Downloads AmeriWorx Card AmeriWorx Brochure Test Reports StaticWorx vs Armstrong Post-Installation Guidelines Maintenance Guidelines Warranty Master Specifications
Which would you choose? Independent laboratory testing has proven StaticWorx solid vinyl tile to be among the top-performing static-control flooring solutions on the market. ESD vinyl tiles—also known as antistatic vinyl tiles or static-control vinyl tiles—are not all alike. From performance to durability, versatility to cost—differences abound. Our point-by-point chart shows the differences between StaticWorx
Most buyers carefully analyze static control properties like resistance, static generation, and maintenance requirements associated with ESD flooring tiles and coatings (also known as an antistatic or static-control tiles and coatings). While these are certainly key attributes of any flooring material designated for technology-based workspaces, buyers often overlook the environmental liabilities of the various flooring
With Value-engineered AmeriWorx ESD Vinyl Tile Buy American – Value Engineered Floors Made in the U.S.A. AmeriWorx and AmeriWorx Rox superior quality, high performance conductive vinyl tile is 100% made in the U.S.A. As a U.S. manufacturer, StaticWorx can help you meet your Buy American requirements for government and military static-free flooring installations. StaticWorx can also help
The GIST: Glue-Free ESD Floors Most ESD floors are installed with a conductive adhesive that forms a conductive ground plane under the floor. But in areas requiring access to underfloor wiring or utilities or chemical-free installation, in 24/7 spaces that cannot be shut down, or in spaces that may be repurposed or the flooring redeployed,
GroundSafe® ESD Flooring. Are You Grounded?® Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a multi-billion-dollar problem affecting nearly every industry – from electronics manufacturing and handling (SMT) to critical call centers, PSAPs, data centers, server rooms, flight towers, banks, explosives handling, government offices, military, etc. Like the common cold, ESD is an invisible threat: you don’t know it’s a
Selecting an antistatic floor for a data center, server room or other mission-critical space involves a number of considerations. The most important is the type of footwear people wear. The soles of some shoes – e.g., athletic shoes with polyurethane or PVC soles – generate static. The conductive elements in ESD-protective footwear, such as heel
When choosing an ESD floor always test to standard test methods. Resistance tests are not enough. Also test for charge generation.