Clean rooms are closed environments employed in applications such as pharmaceutical, biomedical, food and paint production, aerospace and electronics and semiconductor manufacturing. Industries such as these have every reason to be obsessively concerned with eliminating pollutants—both natural and manmade—as their presence in the manufacturing process could compromise product quality. 
 
The aim of clean room production is twofold, says Jerry Martin, vice president sales and marketing, Prudential Uniform, Irvine, CA, a division of Prudential Overall Supply. Objective 1 is to minimize particle contamination, Martin says. Objective 2 is to limit to virtual zero the risk of pollution by ...