Static control & cleanroom flooring

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Static control & cleanroom flooring

Forbo supplies conductive and static dissipative flooring for Australia's most demanding controlled environments: Semiconductor production, pharmaceutical laboratories, data centres, server rooms, and operating theatres. Three product families cover every environment and installation format: Colorex tile, Sphera sheet, and Marmoleum Ohmex natural linoleum.

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 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 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).

Colorex Plus
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 electrostatic discharge (ESD) control.

Sphera SD
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 electrostatic discharge (ESD) control.

Sphera EC
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

Antistatic or full ESD system

ESD flooring solutions are designed for use in sectors such as electronics, pharmaceuticals, health, data centres and server rooms.

Not sure which product you need? Use this table as a guide to match your environment to the recommended product.

Environment	ESD level*	Recommended products
Data centre/server room	Dissipative	Colorex SD, Marmoleum Ohmex or Colorex EC Plus (Adhesive-free for raised access)
Semiconductor / electronics production	Conductive	Colorex EC
Pharmaceutical laboratory	Dissipative or conductive	Sphera SD or Colorex SD
ISO cleanroom	Conductive	can either be SD or EC depending on the application
Operating theatre	Dissipative	Sphera SD
MedTech / healthcare	Dissipative	Sphera SD
Comms room / standard IT room	Any Forbo floor	Any standard Forbo product
Sustainable / natural material requirement	Dissipative	Marmoleum Ohmex

*Always confirm with the client's electrical engineer before specifying.

Read our antistatic vs ESD guide →

Sphera EC 450036 water | Antistatic Flooring Solutions for labs, medical

Why choose Colorex?

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

Colorex SD 150204 montblanc semicon - Electrostatic discharge flooring solution

About Sphera SD | EC

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.

Sphera ESD product construction EC 450008 silver grey SD 550008 silver grey - Electrostatic discharge sheet flooring

Why choose Marmoleum Ohmex?

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.

Marmoleum Ohmex Heinz Nixdorf Museumforum

Environment

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.

Sphera SD-550000 white | SD 550049 yellow green

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