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No offense, but you are the major source of contamination in the cleanroom. It stands to reason that if you are not properly clothed, the time and money spent to develop a cleanroom is wasted.

Protective eyewear from Dalloz Safety, Reading, PA; Flow check device from Pall Corporation, Port Washington, NY; Aerosol particle sensor from Particle Measuring Systems, Boulder, CO; Copper cleaner from EKC Technology Inc., Hayward, CA ...

STOCKPORT, CHESHIRE, UK—The Management Incentive Through Investment Equity (MITIE) Group PLC, a provider of support and building services to commercial and industrial property owners, has decided to launch its own cleanrooms business within its building services division.

STUTTGART, GERMANY—M+W Zander was recently awarded Business Headquarters status by Singapore's Economic Development Board of Investment (EDB), a title given to subsidiaries of foreign companies that the country recognizes as contributors to the development of Singapore's economy.

SAN JOSE, CA—The demand for higher levels of contamination control by the semiconductor industry has driven growth of new fab construction, especially ISO Class 3 (Class 1), over the past few years. Although this trend is expected to continue over the short term, new trends such as minienvironments and modular cleanrooms are expected to curtail this growth over the long term.

SAN JOSE, CA—The semiconductor industry is indeed a lean and mean machine, and news of healthy business is indicative of that. For instance, in August, Daw Technologies Inc. (Salt Lake City) landed $750,000 in semiconductor cleanroom contracts on top of ...

AKRON, OH—A variety of thermoplastic polyurethane films from Deerfield Urethane Inc. (South Deerfield, MA) is enabling a young company to produce gloves for medical, laboratory, food service, cleanroom, electronic manufacturing and other related applications.

NEW ORLEANS—The rapidly expanding use of gloveboxes across a wide range of industries has brought to light a pressing issue for manufacturers and end-users alike: how to prevent glove failure and the resulting contamination of both users and products.

The semiconductor equipment and materials sector is seeing record quarterly results and healthy order rates, but one major problem may be affecting the industry's ability to continue its torrid growth - not enough qualified people to fill job openings.

ROCKVILLE, MD—Some simply asked for an extension on the comment period, while others expressed just how urgent it is for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to forge on in its efforts to establish standards that would keep drugs ...

BUFFALO, NY—Microorganisms that survive in ultra-pure water found in cleanrooms may pave the way toward the development of transistors that combine living cells with semiconductors and lead to more effective microcontamination control, according to recent research ...

WASHINGTON, DC—OUTbreaks of the deadLY E. coli 0157:H7 strand in Milwaukee and Northeast Ohio in late July and August riggered the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to crack down on contaminated meat ...

Day & Zimmerman establishes biopharm technology division; North Safety Products acquires Safety4; Nippon Foundry postpones 300-mm fab to increase 200-mm wafer production ...

Baier, a biomaterials professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, recently set out with a team of researchers to learn how certain hard-to-kill bacteria can survive the myriad measures semiconductor ...

Thick coat; Cleaning dirty food

Cleanroom washing machine from Inventor: Robert L. Woods of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA); Air shower from Inventor: Tomokatsu Utsuki of Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan); Garment backpack from Debra Nell Welchel; Vivian Gray; and Alan Edward Wright of Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, WI); Fume hood from Helmut E. Fuestel of The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA) ...

The behavior of aerosol particles in cleanrooms is quite different from that of the macroscopic solid objects encountered in everyday life. Over the next three months, my column will illustrate some of these differences by comparing the behavior of a familiar spherical object ...

OSHA has recently indicated it is concerned about the handling of cytotoxics compounds in hospitals, clinics and oncology infusion centers, where these pharmaceuticals are prepared for delivery to patients.

The two documents with a common denominator in the family of new ISO global cleanroom standards are ISO 14644-3 and ISO 14644-6.

It's a comment you'll often hear on a sweltering summer day: "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." And in cleanrooms, to a certain extent, that's true.

Analysis tools assist in performance improvements Convergence of man and machine is often debated. This is especially true in manufacturing where a cleanroom is not usually viewed as a convergent entity.

Createchnic AG had been manufacturing injection and injection-blow molding machines for 18 years when it hatched plans to produce container, dosing and application systems under cleanroom conditions ...

The stringent manufacturing requirements of the semiconductor industry place high demands on valve performance. Seal integrity is of the utmost importance for health and safety reasons, while contamination introduced into the system by the valve can result in reduced yields.