By Dan Finkelstein - Allied Cleanrooms Do you remember the LADEE space craft we wrote about a few weeks ago? The mission is now well under way, studying the atmosphere of the moon. Although it doesn't really seem like the moon has much of an atmosphere, the sun does heat up the dust on the surface which causes it to rise. The LADEE is almost to the moon, and once there it will make several orbits around the moon gathering data on the atmosphere and dust. These passes will vary... Read More

When I think of the idea of clean rooms, my first thought is always a movie I watched a million times in high school. That movie was Bubble Boy. Without giving anything away in the story, since I know everyone is going to go out and rent it now, it is the story of a boy who is born without immunities. Because of this, his mother decides the best course of action is to seal him in a giant bubble for life so that no germs could enter his body.... Read More

by Tim Loughran & John Burton of AdvanceTEC, LLC. Introduction With the increasing emphasis on utilizing the design/build method of delivery in the construction industry, and the desire to evaluate proposals using that old adage of "apples to apples", it becomes incumbent upon the owner to create a specification which will insure that contractors have the appropriate information to propose the facility accurately. The specification (request for proposal) must be written to supply the contractor with enough pertinent information to accurately propose the requirements, yet not so detailed as to... Read More

Clean room construction is an involved process. This is true if the product is a portable clean room, a modular clean room or a permanent, highly-controlled clean room. Companies that make use of clean rooms must be able to rely on their workspaces to perform in the way that they are supposed to. For this reason, clean room construction professionals pay special attention to all of the details that contribute to good clean room construction. What are some of these details? Clean room manufacturers have at their disposal a rating... Read More

As a distributor of cleanroom equipment and supplies, Western States Sales introduces 30 styles of cleanroom pass thru’s. These pass thru’s are designed specifically for the transferring of parts and equipment in and out of a cleanroom. It reduces the need for people to enter a cleanroom and contamination levels. Pass through chambers are typically used in environment areas that are less critically controlled to the most stringent cleanrooms. Stainless steel or polypropylene is available for a standard single door pass through. Stainless steel pass thru is constructed of complete... Read More

Did you know the cleanroom (or clean room) was invented by a famous physicist named Willis Whitfield in 1960? However similar concepts were invented during the space race as NASA developed innovating products to improve test environments. Originally, the purpose of Whitfield's cleanroom was to control the airflow but it has quickly developed into more antiseptic conditions. Clean room manufacturing is an American industry that has boomed across the world. Nowadays there are a variety of clean room classifications containing multiple terms such as ISO, FED STD 209, Grade A,... Read More