Cleanroom & Antistatic Gloves

A “cleanroom” is an environment with a controlled level of contamination to prevent damage to a product during manufacturing. Think microelectronics, semiconductors, and biotechnology, where a particle 200 times smaller than a human hair can lead to expensive failures and downtime. The air you breath contains about 35 million particles sizes 0.5 μm and larger per cubic meter. The air in a cleanroom will have much less, making the environment “cleaner”. US FED STD 290E set the first cleamroom standards. Airbone contaminates are measured as maximum particles per cubic foot. So a “Class 100” environment means there is an upper limit of 100 particles/ft³, size 5 μm or smaller. A “Class 10” meant no more than 10 paticles/ft³.