Cleanroom-Classified

An ever increasing number of companies require a facility to provide an environment which enables the control of their process, particularly important for today’s telecoms / net space, defence, food, pharma, biotech and automotive industries. The ability to supply high quality, often ‘Box in Box’, type solutions has become paramount for businesses to function profitably.

Classified clean rooms are very familiar to the pharmaceutical, electronic, semi-conductor and wafer-fab industries, ranging from Class 100,000 up to Class 1 and are determined by the operation of the particular room or process. Clean rooms are classified by the cleanlines of their air . The method most easily understood most universally applied is based on ISO and cGMP Standards as given in the table.

Purity Classes for sterile zones

Clean rooms are designed to provide this by meeting purity classes of various degrees based on ISO and cGMP standards, as directed by the given applications

a) Varies by status of operation, ideal conditions depicted
b) Class division in cubic feet

For Guidance

Class 1 and 10 (the highest specification) are generally used for integrated circuit and semi-conductor manufacture.

Class 100 (BS. 5295 equivalent classifications E and F) are often used by the electronics industry along with some applications within pharmaceutical facilities.

Class 1,000 to 10,000 are used by manufacturers of the highest specification fibre optics, precision engineering, sterile packaging and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Class 100,000 is adequate for general component assembly and packaging.