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ESD & Cleanroom Flooring

ESD & Cleanroom Flooring

Keep the environment Under Control. Forbo Flooring Systems is an international market leader with a wealth of experience in ESD and cleanroom flooring. We offer several flooring solutions that meet the requirements of the most demanding and critical controlled environments, like a highly sensitive cleanroom area, a demanding production site or a hygienic healthcare facility. We have grouped our ESD and cleanroom solutions in the "Under control" portfolio.

  • ESD & Cleanroom Flooring
  • ESD & Cleanroom Flooring
  • ESD & Cleanroom Flooring
  • Colorex SD 150201 everest
    Colorex SD

    Colorex SD

    Colorex SD is a static dissipative homogeneous floor covering in tile format with permanent ESD properties. Because of the dense network of dissipative veins, static charges flow easily through the floor to earth. Colorex SD tiles can withstand the most demanding conditions and offer a perfect solution for highly sensitive areas such as cleanrooms, and for demanding production sites in the electronics, life sciences and manufacturing industry.

  • Colorex SD 150204 semicon
    Colorex EC

    Colorex EC

    Colorex EC is Ideal for laboratories, IT-rooms and cleanrooms . Colorex EC satisfies the strictest requirements for particle release behaviour, helping to reduce any threat of contamination.

  • Colorex SD 150207 quartz
    Colorex Plus

    Colorex Plus

    Colorex Plus is a high performance floor covering system consisting of adhesive free tiles for all applications areas where expensive sub floor preparation or downtime is an issue. Colorex Plus can be installed without disruption of activities and it can be used immediately after installation, even by fork lift trucks. Colorex Plus is available as electrostatic conductive (EC) option, a basic option and a slip resistant option (R10).

  • Marmoleum Ohmex conductive flooring
    Marmoleum Ohmex

    Marmoleum Ohmex

    Marmoleum Ohmex is a conductive floor covering that meets higher requirements for electrical conductivity. Electrical resistance is improved to < 1-108 Ω (EN1081), ensuring personal safety and protecting equipment that is sensitive to static electricity. Ideal for computer rooms, server rooms and areas with sensitive equipment. Marmoleum Ohmex is 2.5 mm thick and available in 6 colors.

    Marmoleum Ohmex is a non-stock item. The lead time for non-stock items is 6-8 weeks

  • Sphera EC 450007 grey sky
    Sphera EC

    Sphera EC

    Sphera EC is Forbo's homogeneous vinyl flooring collection with conductive properties in sheet format. The collection is specifically designed to control static discharges and particles in the most sensitive environments, such as pharmaceutical, MedTech and healthcare facilities. Sphera EC ensures the highest hygienic properties and provides permanent ESD control.

  • Sphera SD 550000 white | SD 550036 water
    Sphera SD

    Sphera SD

    Sphera SD is Forbo's homogeneous vinyl flooring collection with conductive properties in sheet format. The collection is specifically designed to control static discharges and particles in the most sensitive environments, such as pharmaceutical, MedTech and healthcare facilities. Sphera SD ensures the highest hygienic properties and provides permanent ESD control.

Standard

Standard

Colorex Basic plus
A loose lay floor system with Colorex on top with limited conductive properties. This ranges provides all the benefits of Colorex like high density, easy repair and stain resistance with the benefit of a heavy duty loose lay tile.

Functionality:
Resistant / repairable

Description:
Excellent chemical resistant, floor can be repaired in case of heavy damages

Application areas:
Shops, stores, warehouses. Areas with high traffic needing daily intensive cleaning.

Colorex Basic is available on request

Standard

Brochure

Brochure

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Colorex Brochure 2021

Product Construction

We Start Where Others Stop

We make tiles in order to ensure consistent and unique properties and to overcome problems that can be fatal like emission, shrinkage and diminishing of conductive properties. Tiles can be installed more quickly and easily than sheets and with less waste, especially in small and medium areas or rooms with irregular shapes.

Colorex provides all the features normally associated with ESD sheet product but with the additional benefits mentioned above that the tile format offers. ESD sheet products require a high plastisicer content which can result in out-gassing. In contrast, Colorex tiles have a small percentage of placticer content and as a result, very low outgassing.

Construction Colorex
1. copper band
2. conductive glue
3. subfloor
4. conductive veins

Colorex construction

High Performance

High Performance

Colorex EC
Static charges flow easily through the dense network of tiny conductive veins in the whole thickness of the tile. These are collected by the conductive adhesive and securely discharged to earth via the copperstrip. It’s a completely natural system that needs no volatile, chemical anti-static additives to aid conductivity. The conductivity is completely independent from moisture in the air.

Functionality:
Permanently conductive

Description:
Permanently conductive floor, connection between tiles through conductive adhesive and connected to earth through copper strip. Compliant to person-shoefloor-system requirement.

Application areas:
ESD facilities, cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites and operating theatres.

Colorex EC Plus
Renovating an industrial floor can be a very costly and labour intensive endeavour. The downtime needed to move or disassemble heavy production equipment and the cost of a complex subfloor renovation can begin to add up before work on installing the new floor has even started. Colorex EC plus is a high performance floor covering system that consists of loose lay tiles. Suitable for applications where expensive preparatory measures and downtimes are not acceptable, it can be installed without interruptions and is immediately accessible. There’s no need for special subfloor treatments or preparations. The tiles connect to each other using a unique dovetailing system that remains hidden. But because they have a genuine Colorex surface you can still take advantage of its proven features and benefit.

Functionality:
Permanently conductive

Description:
Permanently conductive floor, connection between tiles through dovetails and connected to earth with copper strip. Compliant to person-shoefloor-system requirement.   

Application areas:
Renovation of ESD facilities, cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories and production sites. Suitable when down time or raising moisture are critical.

High performance

Collection

The Colorex System

Choose here the level of conductivity that fits best in your application. Colorex can be used everywhere. It can be installed by directly glueing it on concrete, as part on top of a raised floor panel or as a loose lay tile system. All versions come in two levels of conductivity: EC Highperformance and SD Performance. The loose lay version additionally has an anti static (Basic plus) and slip resistant (R11 plus) version to complete the high tech solutions offer.

High performance
With Colorex EC and Colorex EC Plus static charges flow easily through the dense network of tiny conductive veins in the whole thickness of the tile. These are collected by the conductive adhesive and securely discharged to earth via the copperstrip. It’s a completely natural system that needs no volatile, chemical anti-static additives to aid conductivity. The conductivity is completely independent from moisture in the air.

Performance
Colorex SD enables safe electrostatic discharge through the whole thickness of the tile. The conductive coating forms a dense network of tiny black veins.

Standard
Colorex Basic plus is a loose lay floor system with Colorex on top with limited conductive properties. This ranges provides all the benefits of Colorex like high density, easy repair and stain resistance with the benefit of a heavy duty loose lay tile.

The 7 certainties of Colorex:
ESD flooring, Cleanrooms and Pharma, Operating theaters, Industry or Datacentre, Colorex is the right floor with the right proporties; especialliy made for these purposes. We offer:

1. A full match and exceeding all ESD and cleanroom standards
2. Life time conductivity warranty
3. The highest hygienic properties, high density and porefree
4. Unique dimensional stability
5. The advantages of low plasticiser content, resulting in an extreme low emission
6. Full repairability and stain removal
7. Resistance to heavy load

Colorex overview

Performance

Performance

Colorex SD
Enables safe electrostatic discharge through the whole thickness of the tile. The conductive coating forms a dense network of tiny black veins.

Functionality:
Permanently static dissipative

Description:
Permanently static dissipative floor, connection between tiles through conductive adhesive and connected to earth through copper strip

Application areas:
New built laboraties clean rooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, production sites and operating theatres.

Colorex SD Plus is available on request.

Colorex SD

Norms & Certifications

Norms & Certifications

In order to provide our customers with highest safety, we measure and report the conductivity of each production batch. As a result of this quality control procedure, we establish a measurement report showing the distribution of conductivity values within a single batch. These reports are available to the customer upon request.

The homogeneous structure of Colorex SD/EC with its dense network of conductive veins is a guarantee for lifetime conductivity. Performance is permanent, independent from air humidity or temperature conditions

In conjunction with appropriate ESD footwear, Colorex EC is fully compliant with the personnel grounding requirements specified in the IEC 61340-5-1 and ANSI/ESD S20.20 standards for ESD Protected Areas (EPA):
- System resistance Person / Footwear / Flooring System < 35 MOhm
- Body Voltage < 100V

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Warranty

EPDs and HPDs

EPDs and HPDs

See below the EPD and HPD for Colorex

Colorex EPD
Colorex EC PLUS HPD
Colorex SD EC TILE HPD