ESD Blog

Welcome to our StaticWorx ESD flooring blog.

On the blog you’ll find posts on topics we hope will interest you as well as answers to your most pressing ESD and ESD flooring questions.

How Do You Install an ESD Floor?

ESD Flooring Is Easy To Install Hire Locally or Consider Using Your In-House Facilities Team The GIST: How To Install an ESD Floor “Other than following simple grounding procedures and using conductive adhesives, there is no difference between installing conventional flooring and static-control flooring.” Because ESD floors are a specialty product, buyers are sometimes confused

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Static Dissipative Flooring – What It Is & Why You Need It

Static-dissipative flooring is a type of specialized flooring designed to minimize the buildup of static electricity and dissipate static charges to ground. This type of flooring is commonly used in environments where random electrostatic discharge (ESD) events pose a risk to sensitive electronic equipment, flammable materials, or human safety. Static electricity is an invisible phenomenon

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Terms, Terms, Terminology – What’s the Proper Name for a Floor That Gets Rid of Static?

Have you been asked to select a flooring material that’s supposed to eliminate or minimize static charges on people when they…

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Installing ESD Flooring Without Adhesives and Downtime

A major part of any ESD control program is getting proper flooring in place. How can one replace a floor without…

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8 Reasons ESD Programs Fail

A well-designed, comprehensive, fully realized program is a must for manufacturers serious about ESD control. Realizing the need for static protection,…

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5 Reasons You Should Never Qualify a Floor Based on Conductive or Dissipative

Conductive and Static-dissipative are descriptive terms. These terms describe electrical resistance categories with wide variation, and NO industry flooring standards are…

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ESD Flooring Installation: Bond Test and Manufacturer Oversight Are Critical to ESD Flooring Success

Concrete contamination and inadequate floor prep prior to installing the epoxy vapor barrier resulted in an improper bond. ESD vinyl tiles…

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Why Savvy Buyers Qualify Their ESD Floor – and Why You Should Too

You’re constructing a new facility, covering an old floor as part of a renovation project, or repurposing a workspace, and need…

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ESD Flooring Qualification Phase: Resistance Testing

You finally received your new portable ohm meter with the five-pound probe and someone showed you how to use it. Just…

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Is Bare Concrete Static-Safe?

Whether or not bare concrete prevents static is a common question—and one any facility manager with a concrete floor should ask.…

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The Making of the StaticWorx Cartoon

The Dilemma Designing the new site, we asked our technical service reps for a list of the most commonly asked questions…

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