Cleanroom Award jury announces finalists

Published: 1-Oct-2012

Visitors to the Cleanzone trade fair and congress in Frankfurt will select the winner

The judging panel of the inaugural Cleanroom Award, organised by the ReinraumAkademie in Leipzig, Germany, has chosen the five finalists, who will present their ideas at this month’s Cleanzone trade fair and congress, in Frankfurt am Main from 24–25 October.

Around 20 companies and individuals from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, UK and Switzerland sent entries into the first International Innovation Award for Cleanroom Technology, which aims to promote innovation and ideas in the development of cleanroom technology, as well as expand public awareness of the cleanroom industry.

The winner will receive €3,000 in prize money.

The applicants’ various technical fields ranged from measurement instrumentation, cleaning techniques and cleanroom clothing to filtration equipment.

The jury consisted of Dr Heiko Baumgartner (publishing director GIT Verlag), Dr Burkhard Winter (DIN Standards Committee for Laboratories), Professor Gernod Dittel (Dittel Engineering), Hans-Peter Wohlfahrt (md of the Wohlfahrt Agency) and Frank Duvernell (md of the Cleanroom Academy).

The five finalists are:

  • Palas, of Karlsruhe, Germany, for its reference aerosol system to calibrate particle counters;
  • TU Graz, in Austria, for its Cleanroom Technology university course;
  • AAF Lufttechnik, of Oberhausen, Germany, for its new generation of filter technology;
  • Technology of Sense, of Gröningen, the Netherlands, for its system for monitoring particle deposition; and
  • Colandis, of Kahla, Germany for its Art in the Cleanroom project.

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