TBA Electro Conductive Products

TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has introduced new small size beryllium copper EMI/RFI shielding strips that are designed for use in applications where very narrow gaps are encountered.

The new ECP620 gaskets are ideal for bidirectional applications including sub-rack assemblies, plug-in units, front panels, backplanes and other shielding and grounding enclosure applications requiring high shielding effectiveness for narrow gaps.

ECP620 small size gaskets feature an uncompressed (free) height of just 2mm and require compression force of 16 to 50kg/m for 25 to 50% compression respectively (1.5 to 1mm). The gaskets are manufactured from 0.5mm thick beryllium copper and are supplied in 406mm long strips. Fingers are 1.06mm wide on 1.52mm pitch and strip width is 5.33mm uncompressed.

TBA ECP’s new ECP620 small size gaskets feature pressure sensitive (stick-on) mounting and soft no-snag fingers. They also meet the requirements of the RoHS and WEEE directives.

Like all TBA ECP’s beryllium copper gaskets, the new small size designs are available in a wide range of plating options including clean and bright (unsolderable) as standard, solderable unplated, gold, silver, tin lead, bright tin, bright nickel, zinc/clear chromate and electroless nickel among others.

Beryllium copper shielding strips offer excellent spring qualities and long life. Other important characteristics include low closing forces and high attenuation exceeding 100dB for many styles.

Complementing its range of beryllium copper shielding strips, TBA ECP also supplies stainless steel versions of its low-profile and pressure sensitive mounting gaskets. These extend the choice of materials available to design engineers and provide hard-wearing and long-lasting EMI/RFI shielding in a wide range of applications.

TBA ECP’s comprehensive range of standard beryllium copper fingerstock delivers cost effective EMI/RFI shielding with high attenuation. Custom shielding is also available for board-level shielding and connector gaskets.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has introduced new slotless beryllium copper EMI/RFI shielding strips that are designed to offer improved shielding and ultimate strength.

The new Slotless Gaskets are ideal for bidirectional applications including sub-rack assemblies, plug-in units, front panels, backplanes and other shielding and grounding enclosure applications requiring ultra-high shielding effectiveness and where extra strength is needed.

By removing the slots from the gasket, the new fingerstock is able to offer complete EMI/RFI protection. The gaskets also provide increased strength in heavy duty applications requiring robust performance. Stick-on and hook-on mounting styles are available to ensure a secure mechanical assembly.

TBA ECP’s new Slotless Gaskets also meet the requirements of the RoHS and WEEE directives.

Like all TBA ECP’s beryllium copper gaskets, the new slotless designs are available in a wide range of plating options including clean and bright (unsolderable) as standard, solderable unplated, gold, silver, tin lead, bright tin, bright nickel, zinc/clear chromate and electroless nickel among others.

Beryllium copper shielding strips offer excellent spring qualities and long life. Other important characteristics include low closing forces and high attenuation exceeding 100dB for many styles.

Complementing its range of beryllium copper shielding strips, TBA ECP also supplies stainless steel versions of its low-profile and pressure sensitive mounting gaskets. These extend the choice of materials available to design engineers and provide hard-wearing and long-lasting EMI/RFI shielding in a wide range of applications.

TBA ECP’s comprehensive range of standard beryllium copper fingerstock delivers cost effective EMI/RFI shielding with high attenuation. Custom shielding is also available for board-level shielding and connector gaskets.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

EMI shielding specialist, TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has introduced three new beryllium copper EMI/RFI shielding strips offering enhanced strength with improved flexibility.

The new Alternate Slot Gaskets are ideal for bidirectional applications including sub-rack assemblies, plug-in units, front panels, backplanes and other shielding and grounding enclosure applications.

Extending across the contact radius of these new symmetrical profile gaskets are slots alternating from one side to the other. This provides increased strength while maintaining the gasket’s flexibility. The gaskets require only a low closing force while snap-mounting on a track or direct to metalwork provides a secure mechanical assembly.

The new Alternate Slot Gaskets also meet the requirements of the RoHS and WEEE directives.

Like all TBA ECP’s beryllium copper gaskets, the new alternate slot designs are available in a wide range of plating options including clean and bright (unsolderable) as standard, solderable unplated, gold, silver, tin lead, bright tin, bright nickel, zinc/clear chromate and electroless nickel among others.

Beryllium copper shielding strips offer excellent spring qualities and long life. Other important characteristics include low closing forces and high attenuation exceeding 100dB for many styles.

Complementing its range of beryllium copper shielding strips, TBA ECP also supplies stainless steel versions of its low-profile and pressure sensitive mounting gaskets. These extend the choice of materials available to design engineers and provide hard-wearing and long-lasting EMI/RFI shielding in a wide range of applications.

TBA ECP’s comprehensive range of standard beryllium copper fingerstock delivers cost effective EMI/RFI shielding with high attenuation. Custom shielding is also available for board-level shielding and connector gaskets.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

TBA ECP has added corrugated conductive plastics to its range of materials available for producing customised packaging and static safe storage solutions.

The new corrugated conductive plastics enhance TBA’s ECP 1100 series of packaging products enabling the company to produce low cost static safe storage solutions tailored to fit customers requirements. In addition to corrugated conductive plastics, TBA ECP uses a range of different techniques to meet customers’ needs including vacuum forming, tool design and manufacture, thermoplastic injection moulding of static control materials and extrusion. TBA ECP can also provide custom cut inserts and dividers for its extensive range of standard storage bins and boxes as well as designing and producing boxes to meet customer specifications.

TBA ECP’s particular expertise in vacuum forming enables the company to solve many customer problems and deliver a wide range of specialist packaging, storage and handling solutions.

The new corrugated conductive plastic storage solutions enhance TBA ECP’s extensive range of static control products that includes flooring, packaging and storage systems, grounding products, work surfaces and workstations, instrumentation, coatings and complementary services such as quality audits. The company is capable of delivering floor-to-ceiling static control solutions encompassing everything required in ESD protection areas.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

Static control specialist, TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) has launched two new bench top ionising air blowers that provide easily portable, localised static elimination solutions. The balanced ion streams delivered by the new blowers provide quick neutralisation of static charges in the work area.

The ECP SL-001 and SL-020 bench top air blowers feature built-in emitter cleaner, adjustable speed controls for the airflow, ionisation indicator lights, integrated blower and power supply.

Both units operate from 250V/50Hz AC supplies and are suitable for use over the temperature range 0 to +50 deg C.

TBA ECP’s new SL series bench top ionising air blowers are ideal for use in electronics industry electrostatic protected areas (EPAs) for neutralising electro static fields resulting from unavoidable tribo charging activities such as removing protective plastic films from LCDs. The blowers are also ideal for dealing with static problems experienced by printers, plastics and film processors and packaging companies.

Easy to set up and use, the new bench top blowers complement TBA ECP’s extensive range of static control products that includes flooring, packaging and storage systems, grounding products, work surfaces and workstations, instrumentation, coatings and complementary services such as quality audits. The company is capable of delivering floor-to-ceiling static control solutions encompassing everything required in ESD protection areas.

TBA Electro Conductive Products is a specialist manufacturer of high quality electro static protection (ESP) and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding products.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

We’ve launched a family of Ionisation products for a wide range of applications.

The range consists of bench top ionising air blowers, ionising guns and nozzles, an overhead ionising air blower, ionising bars and air curtains and a range of power supplies designed for use with the various products. Ionisation products are suitable for use in electronics industry electro static protected areas (EPAs) for neutralising electro static fields created as a result of unavoidable tribo charging activities such as removing plastic protective films from LCD panels. The products are also ideal for dealing with static problems experienced by printers and plastics processors.
Bench top ionising air blowers provide an easily portable, localised static elimination solution. The balanced ion stream they deliver provides quick neutralisation of static charges in the work area. In addition they feature a built-in emitter cleaner, adjustable speed control for the airflow, ionisation indicator light, integrated blower and power supply.

Ionising guns and nozzles are lightweight handheld devices providing a concentrated flow of high pressure ionised air. This allows highly localised cleaning of dust and dirt from sheet, mouldings etc. As the air is ionised, electro static potential on the target surface is neutralised, thus preventing dust from being attracted back to the surface. Compressed air nozzles provide constant static elimination in hard to reach areas and can be used to eliminate troublesome electro static fields that may be causing machine failures or to remove dust and prevent reattraction.

Two overhead ionisers are designed to provide excellent static elimination as part of a BS IEC 61340-5-1:1998 electro static protection system. When used in conjunction with ECP 1580 series static safe benches, their effectiveness is further increased. Both units deliver quick neutralisation of electro static fields and feature built-in emitter cleaners, adjustable airflow controls and integrated blowers and power supplies.

Ion bars and air curtains provide an excellent non-contact method of static elimination. These products are suitable for use in a variety of applications such as slitting, winding, printing and electronics among many others. A variety of options can be supplied to suit the requirements of particular applications. For example, one model features robust design for use in physically demanding situations while a slimline model permits use in narrow and tight spaces. Two further models feature air assist to increase the effective range of ionisation.

Completing TBA ECP’s family of ionisation products is a range of power supplies suitable for powering the high performance static elimination equipment. The supplies are easy to use with clear markings identifying the relevant connections. All power supplies feature short circuit protection.

Easy to set up and use, the new family of ionisation equipment complements TBA ECP’s extensive range of static control products that includes flooring, packaging and storage systems, grounding products, work surfaces and workstations, instrumentation, coatings and complementary services such as quality audits. The company is capable of delivering floor-to-ceiling static control solutions encompassing everything required in ESD protection areas.

TBA Electro Conductive Products Ltd.
Rooley Moor Road,
PO Box 56, Rochdale
Lancashire OL12 7EY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1706 647718
Fax: +44 (0)1706 646170

When adhesives, coatings and speciality films manufacturer Bemis ran into difficulties packing one of its advanced thermoplastic polyurethane films for use in the textiles industry, a pair of ionisers from static control specialist TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP) sorted out the problem. Mark Lineker, TBA ECP’s static products manager explains.

Bemis is recognised worldwide as a technology leader in providing adhesives, coatings and speciality films for a myriad of industries and applications. From the automotive and aerospace industries, through textiles and building construction to woodwork in modern kitchen and bedroom furniture, Bemis’s diverse range of products can be found.

In the apparel industry, Bemis supplies a multitude of the world’s leading clothing manufacturers with a diverse range of materials from decorative emblems for sportswear to Sewfree� film adhesives for bonded garments that eliminate stitching. One of these materials, Clarense�, is a strong, lightweight, clear elastic film that was developed as a superior alternative to traditional elastics.

Considered to be at the cutting edge of apparel technology, Clarense is a versatile thermoplastic polyurethane film that can be used as an elastic or decorative component. As an elastic, it can improve the wear and fit of garments by being sewn into critical seams for reinforcement. Clarense features superior strength and elasticity, allowing for greater design flexibility because it is thinner than traditional woven or knitted elastics yet offering the elasticity that fabric tapes lack. In addition, being made from polyurethane, Clarense doesn’t cause irritation if it comes into contact with the wearer’s skin.

Bemis offers Clarense in various thicknesses and widths up to 142cm and it was in the process of producing thin strips that a problem developed. Bemis developed machinery to produce very narrow strips (3 to 5mm wide, 0.1 to 0.15mm thick) by slitting sheets of the stretchy elastic. At these sizes, the strips are very light and after running over rollers, the finished strips are dropped into plastic bags ready for delivery to garment makers’ production lines. However, it was found that the strips were becoming charged with static as they ran over the rollers and this was causing them to become tangled and stick to the plastic bags as they were being packed.

The result was an unacceptable reject rate from customers and a solution was urgently needed.

Terry Davey, Bemis’s Technical Services Manager comments, “The problem was fairly quickly diagnosed as being caused by build up of static due to the thin films running over the rollers so we needed to find some way of eliminating that situation.”

“Following a brief search on the Internet, we located TBA ECP as a potential supplier and they reacted promptly to our request. The company suggested using ionisation to eliminate the build up of static on the films and made some suggestions as to where we could mount the ion bars. Through some experimentation, we found the best positions on the slitting machine and have succeeded in eliminating the static. Consequently, we have seen a significant reduction in the number of rejects on this product - in fact, rejections due to the static problem have been eliminated completely.”

He concluded, “We also found that eliminating the static problem had a spin off benefit in that we were able to significantly increase the speed of the machine and thus improve productivity.”

TBA ECP’s static eliminator bars are designed for use in a wide range of industries where static is a problem.

Extruded in white FR ABS for strength and rigidity, the ion bar provides powerful long-range ionisation. Its “tear-drop” profile minimises air turbulence and enhances stiffness along the length of the bar. It also eliminates the dust traps that are so often a problem for similar equipment.

Ion bars provide a non-contact solution to the problems caused by electrostatic fields within electronics EPAs (electrostatic protection areas), cleanrooms and other industrial applications where static is a problem. Extremely effective in reducing quality defects resulting from ESD, the ion bars are ideal as part of an integrated electrostatic control system as described in BS IEC 61340-5-1 PT 1:1998.

Quick and easy to install, the ion bars complement TBA ECP’s extensive range of static control products that includes flooring, ionisers, packaging and storage systems, grounding products, work surfaces and workstations, instrumentation, coatings and complementary services such as quality audits. The company is capable of delivering floor-to-ceiling static control solutions encompassing everything required in ESD protection areas.

TBA Electro Conductive Products is a specialist manufacturer of high quality electro static protection (ESP) and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding products.

More than 80 standard sizes of vents are in the TBAECP range of EMI/RFI shielding. Designed as simple screw on panels, ECP 8000 series aluminium shielding vents are available with several styles of frame and allow designers and OEMs an easy solution for protecting airflow or lighting apertures. According to TBA ECP, the standard sizes are pre-tooled with either drilled holes or threaded inserts provided for fixing, enabling users to avoid the cost of special tooling that would be needed for a custom design. With 80-plus standard versions, users will be able to closely match their requirements by designing their aperture to fit the shielded vents available rather than designing a custom vent to fit the aperture.

Standard construction of all vents comprises an aluminium honeycomb in two 6.3mm thick layers with a 3mm cell diameter, laminated in a cross cell construction and contained in a peripheral extruded aluminium frame. Optional frame styles are flat or with groove depending on type of seal required.

A variety of finishes is available encompassing chromate, tin and nickel for standard honeycomb versions, providing attenuation levels from 60dB typical for chromate up to 115dB typical for nickel (1GHz plane wave). A chromate finish with cross cell honeycomb version provides 90dB typical attenuation (1GHz plane wave).

Fan apertures can be shielded with the ECP 8200 series standard shielded vents where enclosures require EMI shielding combined with maximum airflow. These vents feature a 6.4mm single honeycomb layer with 1.6 or 3mm diameter cells held in pre-drilled rigid aluminium frames with a conductive chromate finish. Five sizes are available to match popular standard fan sizes and these vents can be supplied with optional dust screens if required. Fan vents are also supplied fitted with the company’s ECP 625 beryllium copper gaskets as standard.

ECP 8300 series Quiet Vents are available in no fewer than 66 sizes and deliver an excellent low cost solution to the demanding cooling requirements of modern electronic equipment. The honeycomb panels feature rigid, extruded aluminium frames with optional captive fasteners or through-holes. Quiet Vents are supplied as standard with composite knitted gaskets that combine a neoprene gasket with wire mesh to provide efficient EMI/RFI shielding between the frame and mounting surface.

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Static control specialist, TBA Electro Conductive Products (ECP), offers a wide range of static control materials that are suitable for use in hazardous or explosive environments such as those specified by BASEEFA and the latest ATEX directive (1999/92/EC).

The company’s static control materials encompass a wide range of static dissipative plastics that can be moulded in bright colours (a frequent requirement for products in safety applications), conductive and static dissipative (SD) paints, SD floor mats and transparent anti-static coatings.

Ideal for use in applications where flammable gases, volatile solvents or other explosive environments prevail (such as petrochemical, chemical, powder handling and similar industries), TBA ECP’s static dissipative plastics can be used to produce a variety of mouldings and enclosures. The ECP 2000 series of SD polymers offers the ability to mould enclosures and components in a range of colours. Specially designed for applications such as static control in hazardous environments, ECP 2200 is a SD colourable polypropylene (PP) injection moulding compound utilising a special non-migratory additive system to deliver a permanently SD finished material. Complementing ECP 2200 is ECP 2368, a SD colourable ABS injection moulded compound.

TBA ECP also offers a range of thermoplastics with stainless steel fibres added to create an electrically conductive composite for use in static control and EMI shielding applications.

The company’s static control materials also include various paints and coatings such as ECP 535, SD coloured acrylic that provides effective static control on plastic housings used in the electronic and computer industries (e.g. telephone handsets), ECP 525, a high quality water borne two-pack epoxy coating ideal for producing floor coatings and ECP 531, a single component air drying conductive carbon acrylic paint.

Also suitable for use in hazardous environment applications is TBA ECP’s transparent anti-static coating that can be deposited onto polycarbonate or glass surfaces providing protective covers for displays, dust repellent windows and windows in electrical and measurement equipment.

TBA ECP’s wide range of static control materials enables the company to provide comprehensive solutions for problems of static control in hazardous and explosive environments. The company is a specialist manufacturer of high quality electro static protection (ESP) and electro magnetic interference (EMI) shielding products.

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