ESD Flooring for Static Control Floors

	New White Paper: ESD Flooring Safety For many years companies, that handle electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitive products, have asked if it is safe to connect their employees to ground when they are working with powered equipment. The answer to this question is not a simple yes or no. The grounding methods required by ESD Control Programs such as ANSI/ESD S20.20 and IEC 61340-5-1 often conflict with the requirements for protecting personnel from hazardous electrical currents in some operations... Click here to read more of this informative article

	FALSE CLAIMS about StaticSmart Flooring Recently there have been a rash of erroneous internet postings, suggesting conductive (2.5 x 10e4 ohms to 1.0 x 10e6 ohms) flooring, like StaticSmart carpet tile, fails to meet the latest industry specifications for conductivity and further suggesting that it is potentially unsafe for users. These claims are simply untrue and unfounded. Conductive flooring, like StaticSmart mission critical and LAN carpet tile, have been in service for many years, providing safe and effective electrostatic discharge protection in manufacturing companies, air traffic control facilities, E911 Dispatch Centers, Computer rooms, data centers, and many other applications throughout North America without incident... Click here to read more about these false allegations

	Not Sure Which Level of Static Protection You Need? If an application requires advanced static control flooring, how do you know whether it requires CompuTile LAN or StaticSmart Mission Critical? The answer is simple... Click here to read more about this important topic

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Julie Industries provides StaticSmart ESD Flooring products and static control solutions to companies world-wide.

Julie Industries, Inc. serves all government related markets: 911 mission critical centers and safety operations, mission critical NOCs, flight control towers, TRACON, ARTCC and AFSS facilities, public schools and state universities, municipalities and mission critical government areas such as Pentagon, NSA and armed forces command centers.

Julie Industries also provides services to the following: electronics manufacturing, electronics assembly, test and repair, research and development centers, electronics and cleanroom labs, data centers, networked offices, public utilities, hospitals, private schools and universities, banks and casinos. For further information, call (978) 276-0820.

Call us today to find out how we can help solve your static electricity and ESD problems with the highest quality static control flooring solutions. Call (978) 276-0820.

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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.
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Who Needs Static Protection? ESD flooring is vital to any business or operation where electronic equipment is manufactured, tested, repaired, handled, inventoried or used. Find out more…	ESD Standards: What are they and who uses them? This excellent article in Conformity Magazine explains the basics of ESD Standards.
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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.