ESD & Cleanroom Flooring

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ESD & Cleanroom Flooring

Our anti-static flooring collection.
Forbo’s anti-static ESD flooring collection brings you advanced technical flooring systems to keep sensitive environments such as operating theatres, computer rooms and electronics safe.

Available in Marmoleum and homogeneous vinyl with a static conductive or static dissipative backing, our anti-static flooring is aesthetically pleasing while delivering an advanced solution in high traffic environments – from healthcare to industrial establishments.

Colorex EC

Colorex EC

Colorex EC is perfect for IT-rooms, laboratories and ISO standard cleanrooms. Satisfying the strictest requirements for particle release behaviour, Colorex EC helps to reduce any threat of contamination.

Colorex EC
Colorex SD

Colorex SD

The Colorex collection is a premium brand of conductive, static dissipative high density dimensionally stable tiles. Colorex SD facilitates safe electrostatic discharge across the entire surface and mass of each tile. Colorex SD is also permanently static dissipative, with its conductive carbon black forming a dense network of little black veins.

Colorex SD
Colorex Plus

Colorex Plus

A high performance floor covering system, Colorex Plus consists of adhesive free tiles and is ideal for every area where downtime or costly sub floor preparation is an issue. Colorex Plus can be installed without disrupting activities and can be used straight after installation. Even by forklift trucks!

Colorex Plus
Sphera EC

Sphera EC

Our NEW homogeneous vinyl flooring collection, Sphera EC, delivers electro-conductive properties in sheet format. Thanks to its specific design properties, it controls static discharges and particles in the most sensitive of environments, such as pharmaceutical, life sciences and healthcare facilities. Sphera EC provides permanent ESD control and ensures the highest hygienic properties.

Please note the minimum order quantity is 10m²

Sphera EC
Sphera SD

Sphera SD

Forbo's NEW homogeneous vinyl flooring collection, Sphera SD, delivers static dissipative properties in sheet format. The Sphera SD collection has been specially designed to control static discharges and particles in the most sensitive of environments, such as life sciences, pharmaceutical and healthcare facilities. Providing permanent ESD control, Sphera SD ensures the highest hygienic properties

Please note the minimum order quantity is 10m²

Sphera SD
Marmoleum Ohmex

Marmoleum Ohmex

Marmoleum Ohmex linoleum meets the higher requirements related to electrical conductivity. With electrical resistance improved to < 1-10 8 Ω (EN1081), Marmoleum Ohmex not only protects personal safety, but also protects equipment sensitive to static electricity.

Marmoleum Ohmex

Why choose Colorex?

At Forbo Flooring Systems, we are international market leaders with a wealth of experience providing ESD and Cleanroom flooring via one of the most trusted brands in the business - Colorex. You can be sure that Colorex complies to every norm and standard required today and, most likely, tomorrow.

The Benefits of Colorex

1: Our technology ensures a permanently conductive product delivering optimal performance through the life of the product. Colorex complies fully with all ESD standards.

2: The surface of Colorex can be repaired fully, extending its useful life.

3: 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.

4: This low plasticizer content ensures extremely low emissions and outgassing, making Colorex the ideal choice for cleanrooms. Colorex complies fully with all cleanroom standards, including those of the Fraunhofer Institute.

5: The dense construction of Colorex provides superb resistance to heavy loads, making it ideal for industrial and commercial enviornments

6: Available in tile format, Colorex is a must-have for raised access floors such as those in data centres and server rooms.

7: Option to add safety signs and guiding with Colorex Signal and Colorex Signal Glow.

8: As they are part of Forbo's adhesive free Fast Fit collection, Colorex Plus products can reduce installation time by more than half. Find out more about Fast Fit

Why Choose Sphera SD | EC?

The Forbo Sphera SD | EC sheet collection offers a trustworthy solution delivering consistently high quality for the most demanding of controlled environments. Our technical flooring systems will perform regardless of the conditions of the area.

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 collection.

The benefits of Sphera SD | EC

• Innovative product development and carefully controlled production processes ensure a flooring solution with permanent conductive properties, which comply with all ESD standards.

• Sphera SD | EC will retain its optimal performance throughout the product's 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 surface treatment makes Sphera SD | EC resistant to stains and scratches, for a durable and hygienic solution.

• Thanks to the conductive backing, there is no need for conductive adhesive underneath the full sheet, only to affix the copper strip. This reduces installation costs and risks of installation errors.

• Sphera SD | EC is produced in a zero waste environment, ensuring efficient and sustainable manufacturing.

Sphera ESD product construction EC 450008 silver grey SD 550008 silver grey

Where to use ESD Flooring?

ESD flooring solutions are specially designed to provide flooring for electronics, pharmaceuticals, health, data centres and server rooms.

Colorex EC & Sphera EC
Flooring for ESD facilities, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites and operating theatres.

Colorex SD & Sphera SD
Flooring for new build laboratories, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites, server rooms, data centres and operating theatres.

Colorex Plus EC
Flooring for ESD facilities renovation, ISO standard cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories and production sites. Suitable when down time, damp floors or poor sub-floors are an issue.

Colorex Plus R10
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
Flooring for shops, stores, warehouses. Areas with high traffic needing daily intensive cleaning. Suitable when down time, damp floors, or poor sub floors are an issue.

There is a wide variety of finishing solutions for Colorex including coving, skirting, welding and pre-formed corner pieces. For more details of our full range of accessories, please click here

To see the frequently asked questions about Colorex, please click here FAQ's about Colorex

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Sustainability

Sustainable performance

We constantly strive to produce sustainable flooring systems that create better environments everywhere. For example, our Colorex and Sphera SD l EC collections are manufactured using 100% renewable electricity and are REACH* compliant.

How it's made
• Of all the electricity we buy, 100% comes from renewable sources
• Both our Colorex and Sphera ranges are manufactured in production facilities certified to ISO14001 - environmental management system
• Sphera SD | EC is produced in a zero waste environment, ensuring efficient and sustainable manufacturing

How it performs
• Low emissions and phthalate-free manufacturing ensures Sphera SD l EC can contribute to a healthy indoor environment
• 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

*Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) addresses the production and use of chemical substances and their potential impact on both human health and the environment

Social accountability
We care for the people that touch our business, from employees to suppliers. That’s why all our UK manufacturing facilities and most of our sites in Europe are certified to SA8000®. The SA8000 Standard is one of the world’s preeminent social standards which aims to protect workers along each step of the supply chain and we are the only UK flooring company to have achieved this certification.

Green certification
We provide Environmental Data Sheets for all our products. To download our EDS sheets and our independent EPD’s, please click here
For more details on how we’re helping to Create Better Environments [click here

Sphera SD-550000 white | SD 550049 yellow green

Brochure & Sample Book

Brochure, Sample Book & Whitepapers

Read more about ESD & Cleanroom flooring: product portfolio
View Digital sample book(s):
ColoRex EC SD Plus: ColoRex EC SD Plus sample book
Sphera EC SD: Sphera EC SD sample book

You can also download our series of ESD white papers below:
Forbo Whitepaper Controlled Environment Key Terms
Forbo Whitepaper ESD Standards and Test Methods

BBH Awards

Winner - Best Interior Building Product

We are very proud to announce that our brand new Sphera SD | EC sheet vinyl collection was awarded the Winners accolade at the postponed 2020 Building Better Healthcare Awards in the Best Interior Building Product Category.

Building Better Healthcare Winners Award

+50% Guarantee

Extend your guarantee by 50%

When you combine any Forbo interior flooring product with our Coral or Nuway entrance matting, as part of the same project, your product guarantee will be extended by an impressive 50%. For example, a standard Marmoleum guarantee will increase from 10 years to 15 years.

The Benefits

• Efficient dirt and moisture removal: Coral and Nuway remove up to 95% of dirt and moisture from entering a building.

• Enhanced floor protection: Ensures interior products stay safer, cleaner, and look good for longer.

• Environmental impact: Fewer product replacements result in a positive environmental impact.

READ MORE ON OUR EXTENDED GUARANTEE
DOWNLOAD THE EXTENDED GUARANTEE LEAFLET

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