Cleanroom Industry News Articles

FDA works to improve compounded drugs quality with new Center of Excellence

FDA takes efforts to improve quality of compounded drugs from outsourcing facilities through collaboration and education as part of new Center of Excellence. Compounded drugs can serve an important role in meeting patients’ medical needs that cannot be met by an FDA-approved drug.

EV Group and DELO Partner to Expand Manufacturing

EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, today announced that it is partnering with DELO, a leading manufacturer of industrial high-tech adhesives, in the area of wafer-level optics (WLO). Both companies, well-known for their leading roles in optical sensor manufacturing, are combining efforts to enable novel optical devices and applications, such as biometric authentication and facial

Hardy Diagnostics Presents New Active Microbial Air Samplers

Orum International and Hardy Diagnostics announce the new MULTIFLEX 1+2 active impact microbial air sampler. The MULTIFLEX 1+2 is one of the latest designs from Orum International, of Milan, Italy. The founders of Orum International have over 40 years of experience in producing microbial air samplers for environmental monitoring. Hardy Diagnostics is their exclusive distribution partner in North America.

Millstone Medical Outsourcing Expands Medical Device Cleanroom

Millstone Medical Outsourcing has officially broken ground on its new 56,385 square foot facility in Fall River, MA. The MA headquarter campus will now hold a total of 124,367 square feet of production space, including its existing 15,000 square feet of class 10,000/ISO7-rated cleanroom space for medical device packaging operations.

Global Nanobubbles (Ultrafine Bubbles) Market to 2030 with Focus on the Japanese Market

Global Nanobubbles (Ultrafine Bubbles) Market to 2030 with Focus on the Japanese Market

Nanobubbles or ultrafine bubbles are sub-micron (~50nm to ~700nm) gas-containing cavities in aqueous solution with unique physical characteristics that differ from other types of bubbles, and have the ability to change the normal characteristics of water. Nanobubbles can exist on surfaces (surface or interfacial NBs) and as dispersed in a liquid phase (bulk NBs). Their use can contribute greatly to sustainability challenges as environmentally friendly alternative and solutions.

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Honda Aircraft Company Opens New Wing Production Facility

Honda Aircraft Company Opens New Wing Production Facility

Honda Aircraft Company announced today that it has begun operations at its newly opened Wing Production and Service Parts Facility, located at the company’s world headquarters at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. The new 83,100 square-foot facility is the latest addition to the 133-acre Honda Aircraft Company campus, and represents an additional investment of $24.3 million, bringing the total capital investment in its North Carolina facilities to more than $245 million.

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Cinotop & Micron presents “Touch Everywhere” at The International Consumer Electronics Show

Cinotop & Micron presents “Touch Everywhere” at The International Consumer Electronics Show

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will be held online due to the corona crisis and will run January 11-14 this year. For the first time, CES will take place online this year. It has always been the leading trade fair for global consumer electronics, with exhibits ranging from small chips to large airplanes and yachts. The fair covers almost all consumer electronics products and the world’s largest companies typically present their latest products and show their latest technologies here.

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New Aseptic API Line Facility

New Aseptic API Line Facility

The aseptic API line facility, which was officially opened today by AMRI leaders and local officials, was announced in November 2017 and enhances capacity at the site while complementing AMRI’s other aseptic API manufacturing plants in Bon Encontre and Tonneins, France.

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New EU Medical Device Regulation Course

New EU Medical Device Regulation Course

The New EU Medical Device regulation course has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant’s RAC recertification upon full completion. In 2012, the Commission adopted a package of measures on innovation in health. The package consisted of a Communication and two regulation proposals to revise existing legislation on general medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices.

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GVSU, Beaumont Health partner on medical device innovation

GVSU, Beaumont Health partner on medical device innovation

GVSU, Beaumont Health develop medical device for people with neuromuscular diseases. A group of engineering students from Grand Valley State University partnered with Beaumont Health to create a medical device that has the potential to improve the quality of life for people with neuromuscular diseases.

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Adventus Ventures Medical Device Incubator

Adventus Ventures Medical Device Incubator

Adventus Ventures, LLC is a venture capital company focused on medical device startups. Adventus Ventures, an incubator of medical device companies, recently announced that it has completed the first round of financing for several medical device portfolio companies.

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ON Semiconductor Corporation New Manufacturing Facility

ON Semiconductor Corporation New Manufacturing Facility

ON Semiconductor Corporation, driving energy efficient innovations, is excited to announce the expansion of their manufacturing facility in Rochester, New York. The site develops and manufactures image sensor devices for commercial, industrial and professional imaging applications, including machine vision, surveillance, traffic monitoring, medical and scientific imaging and photography.

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Qualcomm plans launch of Smartwatch Chip

Qualcomm plans launch of Smartwatch Chip

Qualcomm smartwatch chip will create a strong position for Qualcomm in the wearables market. Many of the problems that have been noted over the years with the wearable technologies are being addressed by Qualcomm in upcoming advancements.

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Galileo Satellite Navigation System Satellites Arrival

Galileo Satellite Navigation System Satellites Arrival

Galileo Satellite Navigation System Satellites have arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, ahead of their planned launch from the jungle space base in July. But Galileo satellites will continue to be launched into the future: a further 12 Galileo ‘Batch 3’ satellites were ordered last June, supplementing the 26 built so far to provide further in-orbit spares, and replacements for the oldest Galileo satellites, first launched in 2011.

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High Power Semiconductor Laser

High Power Semiconductor Laser

The ability to harness light into an intense beam of monochromatic radiation in a laser has revolutionized the way we live and work for more than fifty years. Among its many applications are ultrafast and high-capacity data communications, manufacturing, surgery, barcode scanners, printers, self-driving technology and spectacular laser light displays. Lasers also find a home in atomic and molecular spectroscopy used in various branches of science as well as for the detection and analysis of a wide range of chemicals and biomolecules.

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Life Sciences Cleanroom Manufacturing Facility

Life Sciences Cleanroom Manufacturing Facility

Ecolab Inc., the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services, continues to expand its Greensboro campus with construction of a life sciences cleanroom manufacturing facility to support the launch of the company’s Life Sciences solution portfolio in North America.

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