The accumulation of static electricity is a recurring challenge in industrial, healthcare, and technological environments. In this context, antistatic additives for PVC play a fundamental role in ensuring safety, comfort, and durability, especially in high-performance applications such as technical flooring.

Antistatic additives for PVC are compounds designed to reduce the buildup of static electric charges in PVC systems, a crucial feature in the manufacture of technical floors. Thanks to these additives, PVC can meet the conductivity and dissipation requirements established by ESD standards, preventing unwanted electrostatic discharges.

These additives are particularly relevant in spaces where static electricity can create operational risks or damage sensitive equipment, such as data centers, cleanrooms, hospitals, laboratories, electronics production areas, or industrial and logistics facilities.

In PVC flooring, friction caused by foot traffic or machinery can lead to the accumulation of electric charge. Without an adequate dissipation system, this electricity can discharge suddenly, affecting both people and electronic devices.

Antistatic additives allow the floor to dissipate electric charge in a controlled manner, maintain permanent antistatic properties, and comply with the electrical resistance ranges required for ESD flooring, ensuring reliable performance even in technically demanding environments.

Moreover, incorporating antistatic solutions into PVC floors provides multiple advantages, such as increased protection against electrostatic discharges, safeguarding sensitive electronic equipment, and improving user comfort. These additives also offer long-lasting properties without losing effectiveness over time and excellent compatibility with both flexible and rigid PVC, depending on the flooring formulation.

These benefits make antistatic additives an indispensable solution for high-value technical floors.

Avanzare offers advanced solutions to provide PVC floors with permanent antistatic and dissipative properties. Standout products include avanSTATIC 1050 and avanSTATIC 2009, developed to meet the most demanding market standards.

By incorporating these additives, technical floors achieve antistatic and dissipative properties, enhancing safety, comfort, and product durability.

avanSTATIC 1050

avanSTATIC 1050 is a permanent liquid antistatic additive, specifically designed for PVC and PVC/NBR blends. Based on an intrinsic liquid conductor, it provides permanent electrical conductivity within the resistance range typical of dissipative protective materials, making it especially effective for flexible PVC applications, such as technical vinyl flooring.

Its liquid formulation, colorability, compatibility with PVC and PVC/NBR blends, and superior performance in flexible PVC make it a highly versatile solution for antistatic technical floors.

avanSTATIC 2009

avanSTATIC 2009 is a high-performance permanent antistatic additive, available in liquid and masterbatch (MB) formats. It is specifically formulated for rigid PVC grades, plasticized PVC, and plastisol, making it a very versatile solution for different types of PVC flooring.

It has been developed to provide permanent electrical conductivity within the range of dissipative electrostatic protection materials (ESD), without affecting the floor’s aesthetics, as it is not colorable at high temperatures, does not migrate to the surface, is suitable for both rigid and flexible PVC, and maintains optical neutrality, ensuring stability and durability in demanding applications.

In short, antistatic additives applied to PVC flooring are an essential technical solution for environments where electrostatic safety is critical. Thanks to advanced additives like avanSTATIC 1050 and avanSTATIC 2009, it is possible to develop products with permanent antistatic properties, high performance, and long service life.