Trade fair highlight 14. July 2026
Have we taken a wrong turning when it comes to preventing particulate matter?
Among the various technical approaches to cleaning indoor air, filter techniques have proven to be particularly valuable. The only way to prevent suspended particles and particulate matter is to clean the indoor air correctly!
As an example of a successfully implemented clean-room solution, we would like to present the company AL-PRO Gerd Böhm GmbH. As a service provider, AL-PRO offers electromechanical assembly services as well as cable assembly and product picking and finishing activities. It has also undertaken manufacturing, assembly, cleaning and packaging under clean-room conditions. Its customers come from the optics, microelectronics and electromechanical fields as well as from the chip assembly sector, for which electrostatically protected areas are available.
In three independent clean-room systems occupying an area of 200 m², AL-PRO manufactures products subject to particularly stringent requirements in terms of the permissible manufacturing environment. The clean rooms are TÜV-certified to class 7 or 8 in accordance with ISO 14644-1 and are customer-certified to GMP class D. Thanks to the presence of a laminar flow box, the air quality can be increased to clean-room class 5 as per ISO 14644-1 when required. The hygiene concept was developed in the light of the practical implementation of the GMP guidelines and includes not only particle monitoring but also external monitoring of the microbiological load as well as external pest monitoring.
The clean rooms were planned by Spetec GmbH and retrofitted in the existing factory halls, an operation which required only minimal structural changes to the building. All the clean rooms run around the clock and had operated at full capacity in dual-shift operation without any noteworthy downtimes until the end of last year. The clean-room environments are very flexibly configured to meet changing requirements, and this is the reason why the staff airlock and materials airlock are kept spatially separate.
As an example of a successfully implemented clean-room solution, we would like to present the company AL-PRO Gerd Böhm GmbH. As a service provider, AL-PRO offers electromechanical assembly services as well as cable assembly and product picking and finishing activities. It has also undertaken manufacturing, assembly, cleaning and packaging under clean-room conditions. Its customers come from the optics, microelectronics and electromechanical fields as well as from the chip assembly sector, for which electrostatically protected areas are available.
In three independent clean-room systems occupying an area of 200 m², AL-PRO manufactures products subject to particularly stringent requirements in terms of the permissible manufacturing environment. The clean rooms are TÜV-certified to class 7 or 8 in accordance with ISO 14644-1 and are customer-certified to GMP class D. Thanks to the presence of a laminar flow box, the air quality can be increased to clean-room class 5 as per ISO 14644-1 when required. The hygiene concept was developed in the light of the practical implementation of the GMP guidelines and includes not only particle monitoring but also external monitoring of the microbiological load as well as external pest monitoring.
The clean rooms were planned by Spetec GmbH and retrofitted in the existing factory halls, an operation which required only minimal structural changes to the building. All the clean rooms run around the clock and had operated at full capacity in dual-shift operation without any noteworthy downtimes until the end of last year. The clean-room environments are very flexibly configured to meet changing requirements, and this is the reason why the staff airlock and materials airlock are kept spatially separate.
Spetec GmbH
Contact
Ms. Elisabeth Schollwöck