Gloveport manufacturers claim breakthrough

Extract Technology has launched a contamination-free glove-port interface, which it says will help to eradicate contamination hang-up around the operator access glove/gauntlet and the glazing/window panel, and improve operator safety.

Traditional isolator glove-port design often creates a trap for powders or cleaning fluids at the fold where the glove is attached to the outside of the retaining ring mounted on the window panel. The fold in the glove material can be difficult to clean and hard to validate from a cross-contamination perspective.

The design team at Extract has developed a glove-port interface, named the PharmaPort, which creates two powder-tight/liquid-tight junctions for mounting the glove into the window panel.

The glove material is then sandwiched between the window attachment flange and an internal support ring, allowing a second seal so effective in preventing contamination ingress that the company's engineers are claiming a breakthrough in Isolator cleanability.