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BOSTON—As a means toward staying abreast of new cleanroom design and construction methods, cleanrooms engineers should take in some of the 24 new conference sessions at CleanRooms East next month.

Particles in outdoor air vary depending on location.

PORTO REGION, PORTUGAL — If you plan it, will they come? ICEP-Portugal, the Portuguese government investment agency, hopes the answer is yes.

Praxair and Advance Research Chemicals form alliance; Mydata builds new U.S. corporate headquarters; Forma Scientific changes name ...

BETHESDA, MD—What exactly is the definition of an isolator system?

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ—Two new products, one using chlorine dioxide and the other hydrogen peroxide, hold the promise of automating sterilization of different environments, including entire rooms to barrier isolators and lyophilizers.

SINGAPORE—Schering-Plough Ltd. (Kenilworth, NJ) will build four new facilities here to increase the production capacity and bolster the country's effort in developing its life science sector.

BLACKSBURG, VA — Most University cleanrooms target seniors and graduate-level students conducting advanced research.

Heavy government investment in manufacturing development abroad; increased cleanroom training efforts in U.S. universities; new technologies to automate cleanroom sterilization; new definitions for isolation technologies ...

This column is the second part of another I wrote for the September 2000 issue, "When sick, avoid the hospital." It tells the story of my 86-year-old grandfather, Anthony F. DeSorbo, and how his treatment for second- and third-degree burns to a foot took a different course.

Container; Cleanroom chair; Chemical sterilization method ...

Eliminating detectable levels of microorganisms within an isolator is frequently considered to be a critical requirement.

By my definition, contaminants are any impurities or undesired materials that degrade product performance or reliability or adversely effect product manufacturability.

The advisory panel stresses that the listing should not frighten the more than 16 million women taking hormone therapy, but act as a warning for them to discuss with their physicians how the drug can be given safely.

With the increased use of isolators in manufacturing operations and sterility testing laboratories, there is an urgency to ensure integrity of these units and their components.

Although he may not have realized it at the time, the wise sage Francis Bacon was quite possibly the first person to recognize the importance of a higher standard of clean when he coined the phrase, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," nearly 400 years ago.

A production engineer for a global semiconductor manufacturer is out for his Sunday morning run when his pager goes off, informing him that there's a minor glitch at his company's 300-mm wafer fab.

Integrated optical module developer Cirrex Corp. (Alpharetta, GA) completed a three-month expansion project last October that tripled the size of its existing facility by 45,800 square feet, more than 600 square feet of which was designated cleanroom space.

Chamber from Caron, Marietta, OH; Glovebox from Plas-Labs Inc., Lansing, MI; Instrumentation manifolds from Swagelok Company, Solon, OH ...

Surface contamination control is a challenging process within any cleanroom. Unseen particles—those smaller than 40 microns—can be the most difficult to control.