Flowcrete installs anti-static floor
An anti-static flooring system from Flowcrete is helping to ensure a safe working environment at Unilever\'s newly-expanded personal hygiene products facility.
An anti-static flooring system from Flowcrete is helping to ensure a safe working environment at Unilever's newly-expanded personal hygiene products facility.
The converted warehouse is used for aerosol production, which can result in airborne solvents, so any flooring system had to be able to dissipate any static charge that might otherwise cause the solvents to ignite. It also had to be compliant with BS2050 anti-static requirements. The floor was made with Flowcrete's Peran ESD SL (Electro-Static Dissipating), a self-smoothing 2mm resin. CFP, Flowcrete's approved contractor, carried out shotblasting of the 600m2 concrete floor area to remove contamination before skimming it with Flowcoat SF41 Composite to provide a flat substrate for installation. All static electrical charge is now directed through the floor along integral copper strips and into two earthing rods.
