We've been using a black plastic mesh material to provide cushioning and protection in our stainless steel wash baskets for small boards that tend to get moved around and damaged during aqueous washing. As this material was bought before my time I thought I'd check it's ESD properties since I'd been told it was conductive (it's black, it must be ESD material ). Long story short, the material appears not to be conductive and builds up quite a charge from the cleaner.
 
Question: Does anyone know of sources for a conductive mesh type material that could be used for this application? We've checked a couple of ESD materials providers so far without coming up with anything.
 
Thanks,
 

Rick Thompson 

Sr. SMT Process Engineer 
SMTEK International, Inc. 
+1 (805) 532-2800 
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