This transfer often occurs between human hands and electronics, which can result in harmful electric shock that can injure the individual, or interference, permanent damage and catastrophic failure of many different sensitive electronic devices, equipment and machinery. Read More…
Leading Manufacturers
Gordon Brush Mfg. Co., Inc.
City of Industry, CA | 323-724-7777Gordon Brush’s® ESD & cleanroom products meet the specific needs of the electronics industry plus industries where static electricity buildup is detrimental to manufacturing.
PROSTAT® Corporation
Bensenville, IL | 630-238-8883Designing and manufacturing static control equipment and static control products is the heart of our business. Equipment: ESD auditing equipment for monitoring floors, packaging, worksurfaces and other environmental controls; product: wrist straps and testers, field service kits and resistance meters.
Meech Static Eliminators
Norton, OH | 330-564-2000Meech pioneered the industrial use of Pulsed DC technology for static control & has over 4,500 systems in use in the plastics, converting, printing & packaging industries. Meech can provide solutions to control static in virtually every production situation & offers a wide range of static eliminators, AC & PDC ionizing bars, blowers, guns, nozzles, as well as air curtains & web cleaners.
Electro Static Technology™
Mechanic Falls, ME | 207-998-5140Electro Static Technology&trade designs and manufactures custom OEM configured static dissipative brushes for a broad range of applications such as printers, copiers, graphic arts and packaging equipment. We provide custom-designed static control devices for printers, copiers and facsimile machines.
Botron Co. Inc.
Phoenix, AZ | 888-257-3680Botron is a static control product manufacturer who always puts the customer first. Botron is a low source for personnel grounding products, including wrist straps, anti-static bags, heel grounders, anti-static binders, tapes and static dissipative mats, as well as numerous other ESD products.
ESD Products - Gordon Brush Mfg. Co., Inc.While the electronic device may not undergo complete failure when subjected to ESD, it will degrade, which is product damage that results in a lower level of efficiency and reliability. However, there are several simple and effective products designed to guard against ESD, all of which are inexpensive and regularly used by computer repair technicians, clean room workers, lab technicians and workers assembling and manufacturing electronics, computers and cell phones. The products include anti static mats and gloves, ground straps, spray, bags and brushes.
These products ground, dissipate, conduct or balance any charge carried on an individual about to handle electronic hardware of any kind. Before anyone touches the internal components of any electronic device or equipment, it must be unplugged and the person must be grounded, which is the process of connecting with a conductor to transfer any ESD to another object, making sure there is no chance to transfer any to the hardware.
ESD protection comes in many different forms, which are all preventative. Static is generated very easily, and can be caused by two pieces of clothing lightly rubbing together. Once static has transferred from a hand to electronic hardware, the damage cannot be undone. The most popular, effective and inexpensive method is a grounding strap, often called a wrist strap. These are Velcro cuffs made of a conductive fiber material with a small piece of metal attached to a wire in the form of a braid, strip, mesh or wire.
That wire is connected to a grounding device like an anti static mat made of rubber and a grounding outlet. Anti static gloves are mostly used in electronics and computer manufacturing and assembly environments, where workers are continually handling sensitive, internal hardware. They prevent the static charge from transferring from a hand to the device by blocking the static.
Static brushes are used when cleaning equipment, while anti-static spray prevents the occurrence of ESD by coating hard-to-reach places. Other less common options include ionizers, which neutralize static charges sitting on object surfaces, and corona treaters, which expose the object to electrical discharge as another preventative measure against ESD.
