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StaticSmart ESD Carpet Tile features Conductive EcoWorx® backing

All StaticSmart ESD Carpet tile products are now manufactured with an exclusive conductive EcoWorx® backing. Ecoworx is the industry's first 100% sustainable, non-PVC tile backing system that has earned the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Award for its environmental and performance benefits. More

Proven Durability: StaticSmart ESD Carpet Tile is Tough

The ESD Carpet Tile floor samples look great, and you've checked the electrical performance specifications, but are you also considering its performance over the long haul? How can you know? All StaticSmart ESD carpet tile has been independently tested using a chair caster durability test. More

Setting a Higher Standard with GREEN LABEL PLUS

Currently there is a growing demand for "green-friendly" products and a nee to make indoor environments as healthy as possible. Since choosing the right materials is an essential step in this effort, Green Label Plus was established to help. All StaticSmart static control carpet tile products have been awarded the CRI Green Label certification. More

Successful Planning for Static Control Floors

According to projections of the semiconductor industry, component speed will increase dramatically over the next few years, making electronics, computers and other electronic equipment more fragile than ever before. As a result, these fragile components will be far more sensitive to ESD (commonly) known as static electricity. More

StaticSmart ESD Carpet Tile: How It Works

The unwanted presence of ESD in your workplace can result in failed audits, product damage, even loss of business. And whether you're trying to avoid one of these problems or simply looking to install a more attractive, higher quality surface to impress visitors to your site, the flooring in your workplace is an excellent place to begin the process of creating a static-protected environment. More

Why You Need Julie Industries StaticSmart Carpet Tile

ESD, an acronym for electrostatic discharge, or static electricity, is generated when two materials contact and separate. Repeated contact and separation, or friction, increases the accumulated static charge. When contact is made between an object that is charged with static and a conductive surface, electrostatic discharge, (ESD), occurs. More

ESD Floors 101: Understanding Conductors and Insulators

By definition, static electricity is electricity at rest. By experience, we know that static electricity may rest now and then, but it never rests completely. At one time or another, static electricity affects everyone. The results are sometimes amusing, like trying to get the plastic wrap from a package of crackers off your hands. Sometimes they are not, like being struck by lightning. More

Why Most Static Control Programs Fail

The year 1986 was very profitable for the static control industry. Electronics companies, finally aware of the need for static-preventive wrist straps, bins, bags, table mats and ionizers, spent more than 200 million dollars in the hopes of eliminating electrostatic discharge (ESD). More