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Anti-Static Packaging For Delicate Electronic Products

Packaging a product to be shipped is one of the most vital steps in commerce, whether you’re sending it across the country or across your town. If an item doesn’t get to its destination safely and in perfect condition, money and time are lost and business relationships can be damaged. And the greater the cost of the product and the importance of the product to the recipient, the greater the consequences of it not arriving as promised.

 

When it comes to shipping electronic components, you have to deal with the fact these parts are often very small and light, which increases the chances they’ll be handled less-than-carefully. There is also the concern over static buildup damaging sensitive components. The solution to this dual-headed problem is anti-static foam. Anti-static foam is engineered to dissipate electro-static charges that can build during transit and handling while possessing the padding and impact-absorbing qualities of open-cell polyurethane foam or closed-cell polyethylene foam.

 

Built-up charges can damage delicate circuitry, even if the package is handled carefully, and those charges can even be generated by other components in the packages or the movement, impacts, and vibrations of transit. The anti-static compounds in these foam types prevent these charges from being released into the components of these delicate products, be they computer chips, recording equipment, or sensitive testing instruments.

 

This pink foam can be used as a one-time shipping solution, long-term storage, or even as protective pads in camera cases, computer cases, or other pieces of technology. The compounds used to treat the foam are also added to plastic film packaging and protective pouches, which share the material’s signature pink foam color.

 

Packaging doesn’t just protect items from physical damage of being dropped or roughly handled. Special situations call for special materials, and when shipping electronics, anti-static packaging materials help combat one of those unseen packaging issue: electro-static energy.