Good to Know | Clean room

To avoid contamination in the cleanroom, you must pass through a cleanroom airlock or personnel airlock before entering a cleanroom or a specific cleanroom area, where you have to follow certain cleaning, disinfection and clothing steps - depending on the cleanroom class, activity and industry.

Anyone who has to wear gloves in a cleanroom or ESD area may be confronted with the problem of a glove allergy. Many people are familiar with a latex allergy, for example, which some people suffer from when wearing latex gloves. In this article, you can find out what symptoms occur with an allergy to gloves, what alternatives there are to latex gloves in particular and what other glove allergies exist.

In the semiconductor industry, cleanrooms are used for the production of electronically sensitive components such as microchips. This article explains how cleanrooms work in semiconductor production and why ESD protection must also be taken into account.

The topic of ESD in cleanrooms should not be neglected, as electrostatic charges and discharges can occur in cleanrooms. This poses a particular risk, especially in cleanrooms in which electrostatically sensitive components are produced, assembled or otherwise processed. ESD-compatible cleanrooms are therefore required in the electronics and microelectronics industries, among others.

You can find out what the AQL value for nitrile gloves, latex gloves and other cleanroom gloves is all about in our explanation of the Acceptable Quality Level (AQL). What is the significance of the AQL value? The AQL value is a quality characteristic that can be used to make a statement about the quality […]

The use of certain cleanroom products is recommended for cleaning printers in print shops in the printing industry – especially certain cleanroom wipes and cleanroom swabs. Cleanroom products (wipes and swabs) for print head cleaning Printers used in print shops in the printing industry in particular need to be cleaned regularly. Otherwise, the print quality […]

Latex or nitrile gloves from the dispenser box do not belong in the cleanroom, as the cardboard packaging alone releases too many particles. The right solution for the cleanroom are nitrile gloves or gloves made of another material such as latex, which are double-packed in PE protective bags, i.e. protected from contamination by polyethylene film. […]

As cytostatic drugs have a toxic effect on human cells, double gloving is recommended when handling these substances – even in the cleanroom. What are cytostatic drugs? Cytostatics are substances that inhibit cell growth or cell division. The substances can be of natural or synthetic origin. Cytostatics are classified as toxic due to their effect […]

The Swiss specialist wholesaler for cleanroom products abovo and the German cleanroom products distributor pure¹¹ have a close and long-standing partnership that also brings great benefits to customers in Switzerland. These advantages include the fact that Swiss abovo customers do not have to import cleanroom products from the EU or Germany, but can buy them […]

Cleanroom swabs, also known as cleanroom swabs, can also be used as cleaning sticks for watchmakers who use them to clean watches. Companies that clean special optics also rely on cleanroom products, including cleanroom cleaning swabs and cleanroom cleaning cloths. What a watch manufacturer needs in the workplace Anyone who works with watches by hand, […]