04/01/2007 It is important to remember that a cleanroom is not a cure-all; even a cleanroom with the most stringent controls cannot correct a contaminated product.
04/01/2007 CCMP Capital, through affiliates of international private equity firms CCMP Capital Advisors LLC and CCMP Capital Asia, Ltd., has reached an agreement with The Linde Group, the global gases company, to acquire BOC Edwards.
04/01/2007 The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has announced the publication of the first document produced by the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee (ISO/TC) 142, Cleaning equipment for air and other gases.
04/01/2007 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and California’s Department of Health Services (CDHS) recently released a joint report on the investigation into the causes of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak last fall
04/01/2007 Heritage Worldwide, Inc., a provider of pre-filled breast implants worldwide, announced that it is expanding its manufacturing capacity to accommodate the 38 percent increase in demand projected for fiscal 2007-from 105,000 units in 2006 to 145,000 units.
04/01/2007 Now in its 28th year, INTERPHEX will host more than 1,000 global companies serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries, making it one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive pharmaceutical exhibitions.
04/01/2007 The life sciences industry, from manufacturers to compounders to the various regulatory and standards agencies involved, is in the midst of extraordinary changes, the end of which may never be in sight.
04/01/2007 The EPA’s Ruling 40 CFR1 and the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Standard 318 for Cleanrooms are affecting the way plant operators specify process ventilation systems.
04/01/2007 Nearly a year after the presentation of “A Case for Socket Reuse,” by Paul Gaschke of IBM, at the 2006 Burn-in and Test Socket (BiTS) Workshop, I wondered whether compression-mount sockets (which enabled the socket reuse he described) were seeing more widespread acceptance and application by users, and being added to suppliers’ product portfolios.
04/01/2007 As reported in the Wichita Eagle, Pat Roberts Hall, home of the new $50 million Biosecurity Research Institute, recently opened at Kansas State University.
04/01/2007 Michael Fisher, president of Fisher Container Corp. (Buffalo Grove, IL), says it’s very easy for him to describe the market of his company’s “Precision Clean Products” division.
04/01/2007 The Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST) has released its revised IEST-RP-CC013.2, Calibration Procedures and Guidelines for Select Equipment Used in Testing Cleanroom and Other Controlled Environments.
04/01/2007 Cleanrooms in hospitals, food processing, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, biotechnology, and animal research are all concerned with biological contaminants and therefore are candidates for ultraviolet irradiation to treat air, water and surfaces.
04/01/2007 While research in nano-transistors and nanotube wiring has been widely publicized, few seem to realize that a less glamorous application of nanotechnology in microelectronics device packaging appears closer to commercial reality.
04/01/2007 Novel wafer-level 3D technologies will enable cell phone and other mobile equipment designers to achieve greater circuit density and/or significant cost savings, versus designs that make use of chips in traditional leadframe packages.
