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23.10.2014

Optimised contamination safeguards and improved comfort

CleanVision – the innovative one-piece clean room suit with integrated visor

With CleanVision, Initial Cleanrooms has developed an innovative one-piece clean room suit for use in the pharmaceutical industry. The unique jumpsuit with integrated hood and replaceable visor will be on the market from summer 2014. Unlike conventional solutions, the suit is virtually sealed, signi…

Provisioning zone for finished products for modern wound dressings.

The Lean Lift is a storage and material buffer in one.

The shuttle train supplies the clean rooms with raw materials and semi-finished products every 20 minutes on the outbound journey and picks up finished goods on the return trip.

Provisioning zone for finished goods for customer-specific operating room sets. A packing robot takes over the stacking of pallets, which was previously done manually, and supports ergonomics at the workstation.

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Furnishing & equipment

Medical Innovation Center of Paul Hartmann AG

Two cleanroom productions, one shared logistics

What began as a completely gutted factory hall for products for incontinence hygiene has since July 2014 become one of the most modern cleanroom manufacturing facilities for wound dressings and custom surgical sets at the headquarters of Paul Hartmann AG in Heidenheim. Two completely different manuf…

23.10.2014

The customer center offers space for more customer proximity.

Zeiss opens new customer center for industrial measurement technology

On October 8th, Zeiss officially opened the new Customer Center for industrial measurement technology in Oberkochen. The division of Industrial Metrology offers its customers and business partners a new and modern customer center with an application area on an area of 4,000 square meters. The softwa…

23.10.2014

Special Surface Protects New DENSO Robot from Bacteria Contamination

DENSO Robotics presented the new VS H2O2/UV 6-axis robot at the Motek 2014 / Round forms, the absence of external visible screws and a washable and
resistant surface make the robot the first choice for medical, pharmaceutical, electronics and food industries.

The new robot VS H2O2/UV was in the centre…

The HEPA-lite from Connect 2 Cleanrooms.

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Buildings & Rooms

Production line clean air solution launches to industry interest

A unique new product, set to minimise the costs associated with manufacturing to GMP air standards, has received great interest since its launch at a UK trade event.

The HEPA-lite was unveiled at Interplas earlier this month and generated a significant number of enquiries from firms seeking a cost-ef…

Dr. Stefan Nettesheim and Klaus Forster took over Reinhausen Plasma GmbH through a management buyout on July 1, 2014. Since October 1, the company has been operating under the name relyon plasma GmbH.

23.10.2014

Management buyout at Reinhausen Plasma GmbH

Relyon Plasma – innovative plasma technologies for surface pretreatment

Following a management buyout, on 1st July 2014 Dr. Stefan Nettesheim and Klaus Forster took over Reinhausen Plasma GmbH, including all assets and patents. On 1st October 2014, the company was renamed relyon plasma GmbH.

The core competencies of relyon plasma GmbH lie in developing, manufacturing and…

23.10.2014

Gerresheimer opens its first development center in China

Gerresheimer AG, one of the world's leading partners in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, is opening a new development center for medical plastic systems in Dongguan City, China. With this, Gerresheimer now has three such centers located in Wackersdorf, Germany, Peachtree City, United Stat…

Fig. 1: Appearance of residues on typical surfaces in cleanrooms (from a distance of approximately 1.2 m); 3 applications with 0.5 ml/test strip. Top row: Phenol with low pH at 1:256; middle row: Phenol with high pH at 1:128; bottom row: ready-to-use spore disinfectant (a mixture of peracetic acid and hydrogen peroxide). The test strips of vinyl in the bottom row and of epoxy in the middle row are shown enlarged (distance of 0.3 m).

Table 2: Percentage of residues* on stainless steel test strips after the use of cleaners with four different removal techniques. (*Approximately 43 mg/test strip for phenol residue with low pH, corresponding to 25 applications of 0.5 ml each.)

Fig. 1: Appearance of residue on typical cleanroom surfaces (distance of approximately 1.2m); 3 applications of 0.5 mL per coupon. Top row: low pH phenolic at 1:256; middle row: high pH phenolic at 1:128; bottom row: ready-to-use sporicide (blend of peracetic acid and hydrogen peroxide). The vinyl coupons in the bottom row and the epoxy coupons in the center row are enlarged (distance of approximately 0.3 m).

Table 2: Percent residue* remaining on stainless steel coupons after use of cleaners with four different removal techniques. (*~43 mg per coupon of low pH phenolic residue, representing 25 applications of 0.5 mL)

22.10.2014

Fungal Spores and Disinfectant Residue Control Measures

Contamination Control in Cleanrooms

Spore forming organisms, bacterial endospores such as Bacillus species and fungal spores, such as from Aspergillus species, can present considerable challenges to cleanroom microbial control programs. While everyone recognizes that bacterial endospores are the most resistant forms, not everyone reco…

22.10.2014

International PackTech India and drink technology India Set Outstanding Visitor Record

Increase of 37 Percent

The trade fair duo International PackTech India and drink technology India were extremely successful with a visitor increase of 37 percent. From 25 to 27 September, around 10,250 trade visitors came to the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre to obtain information about solutions for the intern…

22.10.2014

MULTIVAC at COMPAMED 2014

Packaging solutions for a flexible, reliable and hygienic packaging procedure

In Hall 08a (H01) at COMPAMED, which takes place in Düsseldorf from 12 to 14 November, MULTIVAC will be showing solutions for the automated and GMP-compliant packaging of sterile products and other medical items. The strength of the company is based on more than 40 years of worldwide experience and…

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