Hygiene and hospitals

Manufacturers, dealers and service companies will be exhibiting their products and services in Halls 7 and 8 of the Stuttgart Exhibition Centre. The range of services will extend from setting up simple clean production environments in accordance with hygiene standards to using sophisticated semiconductor production equipment. This year, the focus of the trade fair, forum and accompanying conference will be Hygiene and the Hospital. The show is usually held in Frankfurt but this year there has been a change of venue to Stuttgart. Specialists from commercial enterprises, clinics, research institutes, trade organisations and universities, with interests including every aspect of contamination control technology, clean production and hygiene, will rub shoulders with newcomers and experts in the field. Whether it is people or products that must be protected, the organisers claim that there will be solutions available for anyone involved in planning, designing or fitting out cleanrooms and for anyone concerned with measurement engineering, clothing, accessories, services or requirements related to specific products. The market for cleanroom technology is expanding into more and more sectors. In food production, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics – not to mention hospitals, the aerospace industry and semiconductors – guidelines and quality standards are steadily becoming stricter. The forum, which visitors may attend free of charge, will include various lectures and discussion sessions which will be held each day from 10-4pm.

Exhibition highlight Laminar flow tunnels, which can be installed as part of an existing production line, are well suited to applications such as food processing and pharmaceuticals. They prevent particle contamination during filling and packaging. All of the laminar flow workstations distributed by Basan operate on the principle of low turbulence, forced airflow (see image below). A precisely directed current of clean air is directed vertically or horizontally through the working area. This air current collects the particles directly from their location and carries them without any reverse flow away from the area and through the exhaust ports. The standard workstations are built to conform to cleanroom class 100 (US Federal Standard 209) and VDI standard 2083. A further version of laminar flow is the vertical flow cabinet. Modular units can be flexibly assembled to provide local cleanroom conditions of the required size. Basan will be exhibiting at stand B020.