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EAST HILLS, N.Y.-On the heels of a recent market study indicating that Asia is driving-and will continue to drive over the next several years-the cleanrooms hardware and garment market, filtration/purification developer Pall Corp. (www.pall.com) has opened a new manufacturing facility in Beijing, China, and has named Jon Weiner the first president of Pall Microelectronics Asia.

When measuring semiconductor features, recent industry developments illustrate that the linkage between metrology and contamination control is getting tighter as features shrink.

ROCKVILLE, MD.-Recent warnings and guidance by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA; www. fda.gov) are sending a strong message to medical device manufacturers about the importance of submitting FDA 510(k) premarket notification when introducing new products.

DEERFIELD, IL-The merger of two pillars of Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturing has resulted in a new corporation that ranks in the top 20 globally and a U.S. operations that will be headquartered here amidst the growing pharmaceutical industry in Illinois.

PALO ALTO, Calif.-Rapid advancements in the IC industry, says a report by industry research firm Frost & Sullivan (www.frost.com), are prompting increased demand for new or improved front-end semiconductor manufacturing technologies, such as wafer cleaning and thin-layer deposition.

EMERYVILLE, CA-The United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has restored Chiron Corp.

EAST HILLS, N.Y.-On the heels of a recent market study indicating that Asia is driving-and will continue to drive over the next several years-the cleanrooms hardware and garment market, filtration/purification developer Pall Corp. (www.pall.com) has opened a new manufacturing facility in Beijing, China, and has named Jon Weiner the first president of Pall Microelectronics Asia.

EAST HILLS, N.Y.-A point-of-use water purification technology, designed specifically for research and diagnostic laboratories, is promising to deliver high-purity water through a series of separation and purification steps. Pall Corp.’s (www.pall.com) Cascada lab water system combines four polishing systems with customized configurations designed to meet a wide range of sensitive applications required for high-quality, ultrapure water in the lab.

People concerned with contamination control certainly know a lot about such things as cleanrooms, barrier isolators, minienvironments, fume hoods and glove boxes.

A BSL-3 lab and Animal BSL-3 lab can be simple or sophisticated, depending upon their purpose.

It is indisputable that cleanroom garments are still one of the most important components of contamination control in the cleanroom.

Contamination monitoring is the last element of the cleanroom's production process to become automated, but as manufacturers are pushed to the limits of their manual contamination-monitoring capabilities, demand for new technologies is growing.

Time is a finite and precious commodity. Talent is a gift.

The cleanroom industry has always been dynamic. The rate of change may now be accelerating thanks to activity in China.

SEOUL, Korea-EV Group (Scharding, Austria; www.EVGroup.com), a manufacturer of MEMS, nano, and semiconductor wafer-processing equipment, is joining with Jinsan Scientific (www.jinsanco.co.kr) to operate a Class 100 cleanroom at the Technology Innovation Center of Sung Kyun Kwan University.

This track-and-skate system from Eagle MHC enables material managers to consolidate and optimize the storage of supplies, parts and other items where there is a need to store a high volume of goods in the most space-efficient way.

Air quality is a key factor in most any cleanroom environment and when it comes to filtration equipment, the choices can be overwhelming.