At Forbo Flooring Systems, we are international market leaders with a wealth of experience providing electrostatic discharge and cleanroom flooring via one of the most trusted brands in the business - Colorex.
The Benefits of Colorex
✔ Our technology ensures a permanently conductive product, delivering optimal performance through the life of the product. Colorex complies fully with all electrostatic discharge control standards.
✔ The surface of Colorex can be repaired fully, extending its useful life.
✔ The low plasticizer content in each Colorex tile creates unique dimensional stability while also preventing shrinkage. Each tile can be perforated for air flow systems.
✔ This low plasticizer content ensures extremely low emissions and out gassing, making Colorex the ideal choice for cleanrooms. Colorex complies fully with all cleanroom standards, including those of the Fraunhofer Institute.
✔ The dense construction of Colorex provides superb resistance to heavy loads, making it ideal for industrial and commercial environments
✔ Available in tile format, Colorex is a must-have for raised access floors such as those in data centres and server rooms.
✔ Option to add safety signs and guiding with Colorex Signal and Colorex Signal Glow.
✔ Colorex Plus products can reduce installation time by more than half thanks to its heavy-duty adhesive-free floor system
The Forbo Sphera SD | EC sheet collection consists of 2 sub-collections: Sphera SD (Static Dissipative) and Sphera EC (Electrostatic Conductive). Both floor coverings offer a trustworthy flooring solution for the most demanding of controlled environments.**
Sphera is produced in Forbo’s new purpose-built European manufacturing plant, which means that all the latest insights and technology have been used to create ‘smart’ and innovative solutions resulting in a premium floor covering.
The benefits of Sphera SD | EC:
✔ Innovative product development and carefully controlled production processes ensure a flooring solution with permanent conductive properties, which complies with all static conductive & cleanroom flooring standards.
✔ Optimal performance of the floor covering will remain throughout its lifetime, regardless of the conditions of the environment, such as humidity levels.
✔ Low emissions and phthalate free manufacturing ensures that Sphera SD | EC can contribute to a healthy indoor environment
✔ The unique SMART control top layer makes Sphera SD | EC resistant to stains and scratches, for a durable and hygienic solution.
✔ Sphera SD | EC is produced in a zero-waste environment, ensuring efficient and sustainable manufacturing.
Marmoleum Ohmex is a conductive linoleum floor covering that combines excellent sustainability with enhanced electrical resistance (< 1-108 Ω (in accordance with EN1081).
This ensures personal safety and protects equipment that is sensitive to static electricity, like computers and other electronic devices.
Marmoleum Ohmex is made of natural raw materials, which makes it a very sustainable conductive flooring choice.
ESD flooring solutions are designed for use in sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, health, data centres and server rooms.
Download here the schedule where you can find what the right Forbo ESD flooring solution for your application is:
FORBO ESD FLOORING: CHOOSE THE RIGHT SOLUTION
Or read more below about the application areas:
Colorex EC & Sphera EC - Application areas:
ESD facilities, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites and operating theatres.
Colorex SD & Sphera SD - Application areas:
New build laboratories, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites, server rooms, data centres and operating theatres.
Colorex Plus EC - Application areas:
Renovation of ESD facilities, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories and production sites. Suitable when down time, damp floors or poor sub-floors are an issue.
Colorex Plus R10 - Application Areas:
The textured surface gives enhanced slip resistance (R10) and is ideal for use in areas where there is a risk of contamination of the floor for example through powder and water spillage on production sites (electronics, manufacturing, life sciences)
Colorex Plus Basic - Application areas:
Shops, stores, warehouses. Areas with high traffic needing daily intensive cleaning. Suitable when down time, damp floors, or poor subfloors are an issue.
Marmoleum Ohmex - Application areas:
Suitable for use in areas with sensitive equipment like computer and server rooms.
We constantly strive to produce sustainable flooring systems that create better environments everywhere. At the same time we help take care of the natural environment through our commitment to sustainable development, responsible raw material procurement and manufacturing processes. For example our Colorex and Sphera collections are manufactured using 100% green electricity and are REACH compliant.
How it's made
• Of all the electricity we buy, 100% comes from renewable sources. This means all our vinyl production sites, including our Colorex & Sphera plants, are part of an effective environmental management system and achieve ISO14001 certification
• Sphera SD | EC is phthalate free and produced in a zero waste environment
How it performs
• The low plasticiser content ensures low emissions and outgassing.
• The surface of Colorex can be fully repaired extending the useful life of the product. Deep scratches, holes, burns or other surface damage can be easily and effectively repaired, without leaving any trace or affecting the original characteristics of the floor. This genuine, 100% repairable surface is unique to Colorex and something that no other flooring system can promise.
Read our online brochures to learn more about the Under Control portfolio:
Under control portfolio
Colorex Is Safe Stay Safe Brochure
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