Even minor contaminations cause significant quality losses in many industries. For example, if contaminants reach microchips, spacecraft, or lenses, it can lead to defective or faulty end devices. To prevent damage to high-quality products, companies isolate the affected manufacturing and assembly s…

Fully automated with intelligently programmed robots and tools, cooperatively working with humans and robots in a team, or entirely manual for assembly tasks requiring high precision and small batch sizes: Fraunhofer IPA will showcase technologies at this year's international trade fair for producti…

With the new Chapters 3 and 5 and Appendix 15 of the EU GMP Guide, a new era has begun for determining health-based limits for cleaning of multipurpose facilities. PDE, what to do? That was the key question answered for participants of the PTS Connect Webinar PDE Cleaning Validation on June 1, 2016…

The Hessian Minister for Science and Art Boris Rhein is taking on the patronage for the first time this year for the trade fair for cleanroom technology, Cleanzone, on November 8 and 9, 2016, in Frankfurt am Main. Boris Rhein states: "I am pleased to have taken on the patronage for Cleanzone 2016. E…

International cleanroom experts will be discussing current trends in cleanroom technology at the Cleanzone Congress 2016. The congress, which is taking place alongside the international Cleanzone trade fair on 8 and 9 November in Frankfurt am Main, features a high-calibre roster of speakers. The fou…

Two new processes that were nominated for the Cleanroom Award at the last Cleanzone trade fair are opening up new possibilities in efforts to eliminate micro-organisms in hospitals and the food and pharmaceuticals industries. For the first time, it is now possible to sterilise surfaces using natural…

Since 2012, Fraunhofer IPA has annually honored outstanding developments in purity technology with the "CLEAN!". The aim of the award is to promote pioneering applications and technologies in the industry and establish them in the market. Companies can still apply for Clean! 2016 until August 19. Th…

On July 7, 2016, the Court of Justice of the European Union confirmed a cornerstone of German licensing contract law in the preliminary ruling C-567/14 (Cour d'Appel de Paris). For over 100 years, German courts have held that license fees are not to be reimbursed if the licensed patent right is revo…

International market leaders endorse Cleanzone

Cleanzone continues its growth trajectory in 2016. Already today – four months before the event begins – the exhibition space for the pre-event is fully booked. Ruth Lorenz, Head of Technology & Production at Messe Frankfurt, explains: “In the dynamic g…

It all started with a car wash system. An IPA department was just working on optimizing this system when a request came from the Federal Ministry of Research and Technology asking whether the institute could deal with cleanroom technology. That was 30 years ago, when the golden age of home computers…