Lots of Cleanroom Exhibitions in Europe in next few months

Lounges will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany from February 15 to 17, 2011.  A cleanroom lounge features a number of cleanroom companies including seven which make or distribute garments.  These include Basan, Berendesen, Dastex, Kimberly Clark, Micronclean and VWR. They are outnumbered by the companies featuring rooms and components. 

There are two 3C exhibitions slated for the first quarter. 3C Europe 2011 Exhibition will be in Stuttgart, Germany, March 22-24, 2011. Cleanroom Competence, Dastex, and DuPont were among the garment exhibitors in 2010. The 3C Exhibition in Birmingham UK will be held April 6 to 11 at the National Exhibition Center.  McIlvaine was an exhibitor at this show several times in the 1990s.With an international airport within almost walking distance it is very exhibitor friendly. 

Carsten Moschner

CEO dastex Reinraumzubehör

Interviews with Exerpts on Cleanroom Experience website

Carsten Moschner is interviewed twice. One interview is on undergarments and another on outer garments. Other interviewees include:

Dr. Odo Gommel

Monika lamprecht

Dr. Jurgen Blattner

Ralf Gengenbach

Dr. Timo Krebsback

Joachim Ludwig

Prof. Gernod Dittel

Norbert Otto

https://www.cl-ex.com/cms_sites/show/18?type=Interview

December ESN conference was on garments.

Cleanroom Expert Days was hosted by ESN December 2 - 3 in Heidelberg. The subject was garments. Speakers included Carsten Moschner (Dastex, Muggensturm), who  served as moderator of the event, Thomas Kahlden (CCI, Leinfelden-Echterdingen),  Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Umbach (Hohenstein Institutes), Gabriele Schmeer-Lioe (ITV), Alexandra Staerk (Novartis, Stein/Rhine, Dr. Helmut Mucha (Hohenstein Institute) , Dr. Stefan Liebminger (Pharmaceutical Research Center Engineering GmbH, Graz, Marcus Schad (Decontam, Bad Windheim), Josef Ortner (Ortner Cleanroom Technology, Villach) and Frank Duvernell (Pro-Con, Leipzig.

Cleanroom Experience is hosting a seminar on pass thru technology and air showers from January 25 and 26, 2011.  Information on the speakers and the conference is posted in the McIlvaine Free Site.

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/Default.htm

Cleanroom filters and media on display at Filtration 2010, Philadelphia

Quite a few media and filter suppliers were exhibitors at this show held the first week in December. Here are some of the pictures from the stands:

Filtration Group

Photo (pictured from left)

Michael Corbat, CAFS, Product Engineer

Matt Middlebrooks, Senior Product Engineer 

Kyle Keeler, Product Manager, Molecular Filtration

aafintl

Photo (pictured from left)

Myles Bragg, Manager, Engine Filtration Group 

Michelle Wilson, Tri State Branch Manager, AF Americas

Hollingsworth & Vose

Photo on left (pictured from left)

Olivier Y. Huss, Director, Global Product Management

Andrew H. Shepard, Director, Global Market Management

Gregory Green, Director, Regional Product Management

All the pictures and even audio interviews from previous shows are shown at:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/UnivDB/totentry1.asp?ref=1103

Alternatively, you can click on: www.mcilvainecompany.com  then follow this sequence—Free News and InTerWEBviews™ --- Other Subjects --- exhibition.

Growth is promising in both the semiconductor and pharmaceutical segments

Here are the headlines for the December updates of Cleanroom World Markets. There are bulling forecasts for both semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. These are the two largest applications for cleanrooms. Solar manufacturing is enjoying the highest percentage growth.

SEMICONDUCTORS

SIA Forecasts Six Percent Sales Growth

Global Semiconductor Sales Rise 6.1 Percent Quarter-on-Quarter

Taiwan to Pass Japan as Largest Source of IC Wafer Fab Capacity

North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts September 2010 Book to Bill Ratio of 1.03

Silicon Wafer Shipments Increase in Third Quarter 2010

Power Integrations Announces Strategic Investment in SemiSouth Laboratories

Gartner Says Enterprise IT Spending in Asia Pacific to Top $312 Billion in 2011

Vanderbilt Study Shows No Increased Cancer Risk for Semiconductor Industry Cleanroom Workers

PHARMACEUTICAL/BIOTECH

As Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Goes Global, Threat of Counterfeiting, Intellectual Property Theft and Contamination Rises

Biotech Records Strong Surge in October

Pfizer Enters Into Agreement to Acquire 40 Percent Stake in Teuto in Brazil

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

Consumer Confidence in Economy Improves in October

Consumer Spending on Electronics Gifts to Reach an All-Time High this Holiday

Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Grew 35 Percent in Third Quarter 2010; Smartphone Sales Increased 96 Percent

Smartphone IC Market Expected to Surge by 42 Percent in 2010

Next Gen Smartphones Driving Demand for Larger, Higher Resolution Displays

PC Market Continues Growth in Third Quarter; Shipments Match iSuppli Forecast

Strong Growth Forecast for Tablets while Netbook Market Flattens

Double Digit Volume Growth Returns to SIM Card Market

Twenty Million Flat Panel TVs Shipped in September, a 27 Percent Increase M-o-M

Third Quarter Large-Area TFT Shipments and Revenues Fell as Supply Chain Sought Inventory Reductions

Russian LCD TV Sales Continue to Soar

SOLAR

iSuppli Boosts 2010 Solar Installation Forecast; 2011 Stays on Track

Moore’s Law Established in Solar Market

Construction of Astronergy 200-MW Thin Film Line Begins in Jiuquan City

Oerlikon Solar Receives Order for 40-MW Turnkey Production Line from China

Solar Leader Amonix Breaks Ground on Manufacturing Facility in North Las Vegas Bringing 278 Green Jobs to Southern Nevada

Suntech and Calisolar Extend Strategic Partnership — Ink Letter of Intent for New Ontario Manufacturing Facility and Long-Term Purchase Agreement

GT Solar Selected to Provide Broad Range of Polysilicon Production Equipment and Engineering Services for India’s First Commercial-Scale Polysilicon Facility

More information on Cleanroom World Markets is found at:  http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/cleanroom.html

Are you sure which Chinese company is which?

We have undertaken the gargantuan task of assigning a corporate identity number to each company.  We may eventually also include Duns numbers in the queries but we felt the need to identify companies with a number as well as a title.  We are slowly compiling the lists. Here is one excerpt:

Vision Chen of Tiantai confirmed that Tiantai South-West is a subsidiary, so both are assigned the same corporate number of 890.

It is equally important that the International companies be properly identified in Chinese.

You can check out your company and see whether you agree with our listings. If you are not listed, just send us the name with Latin and Chinese characters and we will post it to the free site. The Company classification system is displayed at:

http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/UnivDB/company_classification.asp

Alternatively, go to: www.mcilvainecompany.com and then --- Free News and InterWEBviews™ - Decisive classification (top of page) ---- Company classification.

Do you agree with Damon Larkin of Kimberly Clark?

Damon larkin discusses

Garments in MIlvaine

InterWEBview^TM

We just conducted an InterWEBview™ with Damon Larkin. He explained that he and other Kimberly-Clark Professional personnel did spend the better part of two years interviewing cleanroom operators, visiting them in their workplaces and evaluating the features and functions of traditional sterile cleanroom gowns to identify areas in which there was potential room for improvement. Key findings of the research were that: The sterile cleanroom gowning process takes between 5 and 10 minutes for the vast majority of cleanroom operators; Almost one-third of cleanroom operators indicate that cleanroom coveralls are the most difficult part of the six-step gowning process, and that donning coveralls takes an average of 30% of the entire gowning process time; Cleanroom operators are disposing of an average of 10% of their sterile cleanroom garments every week due to exterior contamination during the gowning process; Most new cleanroom operators need 30 hours of initial training on cGMP donning procedures before they are allowed in the cleanroom itself, and an average of 6 hours of ongoing training each week; More than 50% of cleanroom operators reported garments ripping out or billowing due to poor fit; One-third of cleanroom operators report being unsure of their garment’s sterility due to the appearance of its packaging; Approximately 87% of cleanroom operators would consider switching to a new garment if it was more comfortable and offered less risk of contamination.

You can view the recording or a paper he wrote on our free website. You can access through Kimberly Clark, Interwebviews™, single use garments or by person.

Data Search by Person

·         Cleanroom Clothing InterWEBview™ with Damon Larkin of Kimberly-Clark

·         Damon Larkin photo - author of Kimberly Clark, Donning by Design article

·         Donning by Design - Kimberly-Clark article in Cleanroom Technology

We would like your thoughts as to whether this listing covers the issues of most importance.

Is single use or reusable garments better for the environment?

This is a complex question.  Single use garments create more CO₂ than reusable garments. But reusable garments create more water pollution. How do you compare the two pollutants?  McIlvaine was asked to analyze this problem in depth for the healthcare industry. McIlvaine developed a new metric to measure all initiatives in terms of harms and benefits. This metric is labeled Quality Enhanced Life Days (QELD).Using this tool the analysis shows that the environmental impacts are similar. So the decision should be made based on the comfort and health aspects. This same analogy can be used relative to cleanroom garments with the added dimension of product quality. The complete white paper is available at:   http://mcilvainecompany.com/SURS/subscriber/Text/White%20Paper%208-17-09.pdf.

Keep up with the projects

There are thousands of cleanroom projects which we are tracking. Each month we post a listing of that Revision Date.