Cleanroom Industry News Articles

GlobalFoundries Plans to Build New Fab in Upstate New York in Private-Public Partnership to Support U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing

GlobalFoundries (GF), the global leader in feature-rich semiconductor manufacturing, today announced its expansion plans for its most advanced manufacturing facility in upstate New York over the coming years. These plans include immediate investments to address the global chip shortage at its existing Fab 8 facility as well as construction of a new fab on the same campus that will double the site’s capacity.

Freudenberg Medical Supports the Fight against Covid-19 in India

Freudenberg Medical, part of the Freudenberg Group and a global contract manufacturing partner to the medical device and pharmaceutical industry, has added a support team in India for customer sales and service to the region. Freudenberg is committed to serving medical device and pharmaceutical customers also present in Asia Pacific region with local operations in China and Singapore.

Quattroflow Increases Single-Use Pump Manufacturing Footprint with Construction of New Cleanroom

Quattroflow, part of PSG and Dover (NYSE: DOV), announced that it will increase manufacturing capacity for its single-use quaternary diaphragm pumps with the construction of a new ISO Class 7 cleanroom.
Expected to open in October 2021, the additional cleanroom will more than double the Quattroflow cleanroom space in Duisburg, Germany.

NASA’s Self-Driving Perseverance Mars Rover ‘Takes the Wheel’

NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life. That means the rover team is deeply engaged with planning navigation routes, drafting instructions to be beamed up, even donning special 3D glasses to help map their course.

First Solar breaks ground on 3.3 GW production facility

First Solar breaks ground on 3.3 GW production facility

The new 3.3 gigawatt (GW)DC facility, which is scheduled to commence operations in the first half of 2023, represents a $680 million investment. When fully operational, the facility is expected to scale the company’s Northwest Ohio footprint to a total annual capacity of 6 GWDC, which is believed to make it the largest fully vertically integrated solar manufacturing complex outside China.

Exyte developed Factory Concept for Morrow Batteries’ leading edge and sustainable Li-ion Battery Giga-Site in Norway

Exyte developed Factory Concept for Morrow Batteries’ leading edge and sustainable Li-ion Battery Giga-Site in Norway

Exyte, a global leader in the design, engineering, and delivery of facilities for high-tech industries, has collaborated with Morrow Batteries (“Morrow”) in the development of integrated production concepts for their new state-of-the-art Lithium-Ion battery production site in Norway.

New Semiconductor Fab Prepares SK Hynix for Increasing Memory Demand

New Semiconductor Fab Prepares SK Hynix for Increasing Memory Demand

SK hynix has grown into one of the leading chipmakers in the world through continuous effort to secure a fundamental competitive edge in the fierce semiconductor industry. With the emergence of new entrants and the consolidation of incumbent players, the competition and technological barriers are continuously heightening in the market.

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Almac Group Launches GMP High Throughput Peptide Manufacturing Service

Almac Group Launches GMP High Throughput Peptide Manufacturing Service

Almac has manufactured multiple High Throughput batches of neoantigen derived peptides –branded by Almac as NeoPeptides™ – for compassionate use treatments, and for P-I clinical trials, from its Edinburgh facility. Over the course of the past ten months the facility has been upgraded and segregated to enable GMP supply.

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Perovskite Solar Cells Electrify the Solar Cell Community

Perovskite Solar Cells Electrify the Solar Cell Community

Perovskite solar cells are currently electrifying the solar cell community. This new, cheap, and easy-to-process material has almost ideal physical properties for converting light into electricity: as it is pitch-black, a very thin layer of less than a thousandth of a millimeter is sufficient to absorb all incident sunlight.

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New Biosensors For Implantable Sensing

New Biosensors For Implantable Sensing

Biosensors are devices that can detect biological molecules in air, water, or blood. They are widely used in drug development, medical diagnostics, and biological research. The growing need for continuous, real-time monitoring of biomarkers in diseases like diabetes is currently driving efforts to develop efficient and portable biosensor devices.

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Nanomachine Robot Goes To Battle With Tuberculosis

Nanomachine Robot Goes To Battle With Tuberculosis

The Brock team’s latest technology builds on an earlier version of the microscopic robot — called the three-dimensional DNA nanomachine — they created in 2016 to detect diseases in a blood sample within 30 minutes.

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New Modbus Flow Totalizer for Hazardous Applications

New Modbus Flow Totalizer for Hazardous Applications

SignalFire Wireless Telemetry introduces the ModQ Sentry, a Modbus Flow Totalizer that interfaces with pulse-type inductive turbine (and other) flow meters to provide instantaneous flow rates, accumulated totals and status information. Units are configurable for volume and time settings and offer options to configure the K factor to match the turbine.

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Injection Molding Medical Capability Investment by Graham Partners

Injection Molding Medical Capability Investment by Graham Partners

Private equity firm Graham Partners has entered injection molded medical goods with an investment in Medbio LLC of Grand Rapids, Mich. Graham Partners acquired a majority interest in Medbio, effective July 18 for undisclosed terms, according to Graham managing principal Joe Heinmiller.

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