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Cleanroom environments are being found in more diverse settings than ever before

Cleanroom garments must protect product from the contamination caused by the wearer, but they must also be comfortable and cost-effective.

No, you’re not seeing things. There are indeed two issues of CleanRooms magazine bound together this month-your annual Master Source Guide and your regular December issue.

Nanotechnology was born as the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) as described by Roco et al.

In a live Web cast aired on November 16, 2005, Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) President George Scalise indicated that the semiconductor industry has enjoyed a solid year to date, with revenues up 6.1 percent over last year, and will continue to prosper over the next year.

Increased customer demand has prompted Microfabrica (www.microfabrica.com), a leader in microdevice and microsystem fabrication, to move its factory and corporate headquarters from Burbank to a new facility in Van Nuys, Calif.

After only 10 months, Cook Pharmica LLC, the newest Cook Group company (www.cookmedical.com), has completed construction on a $70 million facility to provide manufacturing services to the biotech industry.

News snippets from the world of contamination control.

Just before the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed overhead, Daniel Gurneck faced a contamination-control nightmare.

How preventative cleaning measures outside of your cleanroom will boost sanitation levels on the inside

Choosing the right scale in the most critical applications

As display panels get bigger, thinner and more expensive, manufacturers look to the semiconductor industry for guidance on how to get particle contamination under control

Each month, CleanRooms brings you a collection of the latest product innovations in the contamination-control industry.