Texwipe clean room supplies don’t discriminate. Our pre-wetted, or dry wipes will pick up any and all contaminants threatening the sanctity of your clean room. Our sampling swabs and cleaning swabs will pick up mold or skin flakes with equal efficiency. This blog will look at various sources of contamination in a clean rooms.

Personnel

• People are a common source of contamination in a cleanroom.
• Extremely rigorous precautions are taken by each person, such as wearing proper cleanroom attire like gloves, face masks, and boot covers. Still, we are only human and humans slough off skin cells, use shampoo, loose hair and our clothes give off lint and fibers.

Tools

• The tools in the cleanroom can give off microscope particle during manufacturing from friction and normal use.
• Lubricants and emissions from machines are another source of contaminants.
• Even cleaning products, if not of the highest quality, will give off particles that could land on products and cause defects.

Fluids

• Any environment contains fluids and a cleanroom is no exception.
• Examples of fluids that can be contaminants in a cleanroom include, floor cleaners, cleaning chemical, and deionized water.
• Even tiny droplets of water in the air count as fluids that can contaminate with bacteria, organic material and the water itself.

Products

• Even the products being manufactured can be the source of contamination.
• When products are etched with chemicals it is possible for tiny particle to come free and float in the air only to land elsewhere as a contaminate.
• Examples of products that can also become contaminants are silicon chips, quartz flakes, aluminum debris.

To ensure the highest level of cleanliness of your clean room, use TEXWIPE clean room supplies such as TEXWIPE pre-wetted wipes and swabs from SOS Clean rooms.