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If you are interested in the European cleanroom market then we recommend the free subscription to REinraum online. It is in German but there are lots of pictures and you can always use “Google translate” for information you really need.

Reinhold Schuster reported on MEDTEC Eur0pe n Stuttgart. There were more than 1000 exhibitors including some in contamination control and cleanrooms. The March issue also covers several particle analyzers including a design supplied by PMT. A new microbial sampler from Biotest has a colored touch screen and robust battery.

Dr. Hans Schicht is featured as a “Cleansman” or expert in cleanroom technology. His activities and background are chronicled. The activities to provide measure air in hospitals by Topas is discussed.

The calendar lists 33 cleanroom related conferences (many of them small) slated for Europe in March. Thirty-seven conferences are listed for April. The hosts include PCS GMBH, VDI, Testo, concept Heidelberg, PTS and Reinraum Akademie. For more information and to register for this newsletter, click on: www.reinraum.de

AxFlow U.K. has created a clean room facility at its Huddersfield-based maintenance facility for the service and repair of pumps for hygienic applications. The clean room has been designed and equipped under the guidance of process engineers from one of Europe’s leading chocolate and confectionery producers and is fully compliant with EHEDG requirements.

The introduction of the clean room is the latest addition to the range of services available from AxFlow’s pump maintenance facility in Huddersfield. According to AxFlow’s Service Base Manager, Tom Cooper, every effort has been made to ensure that the requirements of its customers in the food processing industry have been addressed. The room is fitted with a clean air supply with Grade I air filter for static pressure testing and a specialist lifting rig.

“Having a clean room facility for undertaking the cleaning of pumps and their final build has been on the agenda for some time,” says Tom Cooper. “It is a facility that several prospective customers had requested, so in order to capitalize on this business opportunity we requested the assistance of process engineers from one of Europe’s leading confectionery manufacturers to advise us on the design and fitting out of the room. Their hands-on support throughout the whole project was greatly appreciated and as a result, we have secured aspects of their pump maintenance work.

In the food and beverage industries it is a basic requirement pumps must be compliant with EHEDG, FDA and 3A regulations. When taken out of service for general maintenance, replacement of worn components and repair, the same regulations apply to the work undertaken and the testing prior to service re-entry. For those food processing companies that do not have a pump maintenance resource in house, or are unable to go back to the original equipment supplier when maintenance and repairs are needed, the facilities of a company such as those now available from AxFlow are of great significance.

In our listing of Interphex exhibitors in Cleanroom Insights #3 we overlooked Bellcomb. The company offers lightweight Cleanroom panel solutions with extrusions — smooth finishes that are resistant to microbial and fungal growth and withstand repeated cleaning and sanitation. Bill Connell (570-905-4258) says “Smooth radius corner connection and seamless construction at attachment points set us apart in the cleanroom market.”

Here are the details on a big cleanroom exhibition next week in the UK. This is the extract from our Global Knowledge Orchard “free site”. But we have also added contact information for specific exhibitor personnel to facilitate your networking efforts.

Title: 3C Contamination Control and Cleanroom Products 2011 UK Exhibition

For over 15 years, 3C has continued to be the UK’s sole dedicated exhibition and conference for contamination control and cleanrooms. If you are in the business of supplying turn-key cleanroom solutions, maintenance, associated equipment or disposables in the UK and Irish markets, then 3C is your opportunity to stand out and connect to key specifiers and purchasers from such diversified industries as Medical, Pharmaceutical, Electronics, Manufacturing and Green Energy. Since 2006, 3C has been co-located with MEDTEC UK, the UK’s major medical technology exhibition. This focused event delivers over 2,500 engineers, managers and decision makers from the UK and Ireland’s booming medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing sectors. With their heavy reliance on manufacturing in cleanroom conditions, the medical device industry is a perfect partner to 3C. It is officially supported by Cleanroom Technology magazine.

Additional Exhibition Information

Application Sequencing

Company

Event Date

Location

· Boulting Environmental Services

· Cleanroom Solutions

· Cleanroom Technology Magazine

· Connect2cleanrooms

· Fanuc Robotics

· Felcon

· Goldsworth Medical

· Guardline Technology

· Inmedic

· KIMO Instruments

· MicroCare

· Micronova

· Nitritex

· Shiled Medicare

· Vaisala

4/6/2011

· Birmingham U.K.

Here are contacts at the various exhibitor stands at 3C. This allows you to arrange meetings from elsewhere on the exhibit floor or even to set them up in advance. This is a way to make yourself more productive at the show.

McIlvaine has created a new four lane high speed knowledge bridge between suppliers and end users. Part of this is a bountiful Global Knowledge Orchard full of fruit relating to cleanroom hardware, consumables and services. You can access this orchard by clicking on:

Company and Person Name	Title	Email	Phone	Phone
Boulting Env. Services Mark Thistlewaite	Sales Manager	markthistlethwaite@besltd.org	44 161 655 3344	44 161 655 3344
Felcon Ltd Ray Robins	Sales Director	ray.robins@felcon.co.uk	44 1273 511 589	44 1273 511 589
Ian Mutton	Sales Director	ianmutton@felcon.co.uk	44 1273 511 589	44 1273 511 589
Goldsworth Medical Jon Gray	Sales Director	jon.gray@felcon.co.uk	44 1273 516 661	44 1273 516 661
Shield Medicare Terry Mark	UK Bus. Dev. Mgr.	mterry@shieldmedicare.com	44 1252 717 616	44 1252 717 616
Shield Medicare Matt Cokely	UK Industry Specialist, S.	mcokely@shieldmedicare.com	44 1252 717 616	44 1252 717 616
Cleanroom Solutions Jan Pyrgies	Director	jan@cleanroom-solutions.co.uk	44 1273 760 060	44 1273 760 060
Guardline Technology Ray Wheeler	Chairman	r.wheeler@theguardlinegroup.com	44 1842 822 150 44 0780 287 4185	44 1842 822 150
Rob Jones	National Sales Mgr.	r.jones@guardline.co.uk	44 0796 814 451
Danny Melhado	Sales & Marketing	d.melhado@guardline.co.uk	44 0182 822 150
Conor Barwise	Project Manager	c.barwise@guardline.co.uk	44 1842 822 150 44 07584 212 375	44 1842 822 150
Paul Malloch	Territory Sales Manager	p.malloch@guardline.co.uk	44 0795 233 193
Will Halliday	Territory Sales Manager	w.halliday@guardline.co.uk	44 07801 584 750
Lindsay Hayes	Territory Sales Manager	l.hayes@guardline.co.uk	44 07590 745 630
Kay Goddard	Territory Sales Manager	k.goddard@guardline.co.uk	44 07590 745 688
Tina Plestead	Sales Office Supervisor	t.plestead@guardline.co.uk	44 01842 822 150	44 01842 822 150