The Röchling Engineering Plastics (UK) Ltd in Gloucester, Great Britain, has commissioned a new ISO Class 7 cleanroom. With this investment, the plastics processor is further expanding its range of high-precision finished parts made from thermoplastics, specifically for medical technology, pharmaceu…

How small, how energy-efficient can a laser be? The search for the ultimate nanolaser for the information technology of the future is engaging research groups worldwide.

As part of an international collaboration, Prof. Dr. Stephan Reitzenstein from the Institute of Solid State Physics at TU Berlin an…

In the context of hygiene-sensitive production processes, the use of standard and control components according to Hygienic Design is paramount. But what factors lie behind this term, and what is meant by stainless steel components for Hygienic USIT® developed by NovoNox KG in cooperation with Freude…

A cleanroom is a sterile room free of dust and particles, with special requirements for the staff, clothing, equipment, and even walls, ceilings, and floors.

Basically, everything in a cleanroom must be kept as dust- and particle-free as possible, so equipment made of stainless steel should be the fi…

The cleaning roll consists of a polyethylene film coated with a water-based acrylic adhesive and an antimicrobial agent. Handling is very simple; flat and hard surfaces can be cleaned quickly and efficiently.

The cleaning roll is simply attached to the reusable handle made of non-contaminating materi…

Due to high demand and very positive feedback from participants, the hands-on cleanroom technology training course "Systems and Concepts of Cleanroom Technology" will be offered for the second time from June 20 to 23, 2017, at the Hermann Rietschel Institute, under the auspices of BTGA, FGK, VIP3000…

The SPETEC GmbH in Erding presents a new product in the field of cleanroom technology. The cleanroom station CleanBoy® enables the user to create cleanroom conditions with high effectiveness at any workstation with minimal investment.

Extremely clean conditions are becoming increasingly important in…

For the first time ever, a cloud of ultra-cold atoms has been successfully created in space on board of a sounding rocket. The MAIUS mission demonstrates that quantum optical sensors can be operated even in harsh environments like space – a prerequi-site for finding answers to the most challenging q…

A formulation error in the cover page of the new ISO 16890 international test standard for the assessment and classification of air filters has created uncertainty and different courses of action among different countries. Originally, the standard introduced at the beginning of 2017 was intended to…

Every year, Gerresheimer’s pharmaceutical industry customers order several hundreds of millions of glass pharmaceutical packaging products manufactured at the company’s plants in Essen and Lohr. Packing robots were recently introduced to improve the efficiency and reliability of packing operations b…