Market Reports

2025: What happened in the cleanroom market?

Sophie Bullimore looks back at what was happening in the cleanroom sector in 2025, and what trends jumped out amongst the rest

Your options for aseptic transfer systems for isolator and RABS

Dr Timo Krebsbach and Dipl.-Ing. Frank Lehmann from SKAN discuss the landscape of transfer options in pharmaceutical barrier systems

Reusable vs single-use cleanroom garments in traditional Grade B cleanrooms

Matts Ramstorp from BioTekPro summarises the current situation with regard to cleanroom garments, in relation to future demands and recent scientific findings

What determines the efficiency of a cleanroom air filter?

Did you know that cleanrooms are classified by their air cleanliness level? This is determined by the concentration of airborne particles per unit of volume. The primary international standard for this classification is ISO 14644-1. This standard classifies cleanrooms from ISO 1 (cleanest) to ISO 9 (least clean)

Analysing air patterns around an Open-RABS

The Telstar team walks through a CFD evaluation of potential cross-contamination risks of an open-RABS in a cleanroom environment

Opinion: What is the future of robots in cleanroom maintenance and cleaning?

Ryan McClymonds from i-team Global, explores key challenges of cleanroom cleaning and how these prompted the world’s first battery-powered cleanroom floor cleaning range

10 tips to prepare your pharmaceutical cleanroom for a GxP inspection

Tamika Cathey from NSF gives her top tips to pass FDA, MHRA and EU Annex 1 inspections, ranging from conducting a risk assessment to verifying materials and workflows

Designing contamination control into pharmaceutical equipment

Contamination Control Strategies (CCS) demand a holistic approach to personnel, process design, equipment, and environmental controls. Dr Dave Seaward, from 3P Innovation dives into equipment design aspects that make the difference to the entire system

Stick-built vs modular cleanroom: Which is the right choice for you?

Angstrom company, Life Science Solutions, gives a detailed pros and cons list of the ever-important decision

Opinion: What is the future of robots in cleanroom maintenance and cleaning?

Ryan McClymonds from i-team Global, explores key challenges of cleanroom cleaning and how these prompted the world’s first battery-powered cleanroom floor cleaning range

What is happening in the Indian cleanroom market: Schedule M, IPOs, partnerships and more

Sophie Bullimore looks at the shifting regulatory pressures in the Indian cleanroom sector that are catalysing change across the sector

Pharmaceutical manufacturing: Holistic approaches to digitisation and Industry 4.0

Steven Ng from AST explains how to balance capitalising on the advancements in manufacturing environment technology with meeting 2025’s regulatory demands

An A-Z of USP guidelines and best practice in compressed gas monitoring

Blue Thunder Technologies breaks down USP standards, explores key risks, and outlines best practices for maintaining cleanroom compressed gas compliance and audit-readiness

A review of innovations in sustainable cleanroom operations

Nash Mader from Instant Cleanroom Solutions lists the notable sustainability trends and innovations in action in cleanroom projects in 2025

What is the future of automation in closed systems for cell and gene therapy production?

Dave Seaward from 3P Innovation explains why manufacturers in advanced therapies are moving away from manual, laboratory-based processes and toward automated operations on GMP-compliant production equipment

Sustainability in the cleanroom: A scientific approach

Stefaan Vanhalle from STAXS discusses the ways to reduce a cleanrooms environmental footprint, as well as common traps that companies fall into in this effort

Airflow optimisation: What is it and is big pharma on board?

Over-ventilating cleanrooms leads to exorbitant energy bills, Dan Diehl from Aircuity believes the dynamic air control technology now has a firm foothold in the pharmaceutical sector

A comprehensive guide to cost management in cleanrooms

Kjeld Lund from 14644 Cleanroom deep dives into the critical aspects of cost management in cleanrooms, from personnel to construction techniques

Adaptive cleanroom design: How to take a drug from Phase 1 safety trial to commercialisation

Nick Mazzucca, SVP of Business Development at Chrysalis, explores the core strategies for the drug development lifecycle, from modular facility design and open ballroom concepts to the functionally closed processing systems that unlock a cleanroom’s true adaptive potential

Market report: Cleanroom goggles in North America

Canada-based Klaritex’s CEO, Atif Sarfraz, talks to Sophie Bullimore about meeting the challenges and trends in the cleanroom goggle market in North America

Sporicides: Optimal criteria for cleanroom users

In addition to basic chemicals and formulation, there are other criteria that contribute to making something a sporicide. Tim Sandle, in partnership with Ecolab Life Sciences, explains what you need to know

Single-use vs permanent transfer solutions: An overview

Isaac Giesen from CRL weighs up the options available to manufacturers for material transfer based on upfront cost, labour, flexibility and target market

Biosafety cabinets: How to avoid back pain with daily use

Niggles and issues in the upper body can be caused by repetitive and stagnant processes in a biological safety, David Phillips from Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains how proper ergonomics need to be in place to reduce this to a minimum

Integrating “high-voltage leak detection” into automated visual inspection

Leoni Ransmann and Jan Sende from Syntegon Technology talk about visual inspection of product containers like ampoules, which has been the industry standard for decades, and compare it to modern methods being emphasised in documents like the new EU GMP Annex 1

Trending Articles

  1. Harmonisation of Annex 1 and ISO 14644-1: A deeper look Alexander Fedotov from Invar explains that the harmonisation of standards seems to be a driving force for setting particle limits and why this may not always result in logical scientific decision making
  2. GMP Annex 1: Validation of disinfectants on cleanroom surfaces Published in August 2022, for implementation in August 2023, Karen Rossington from Contec looks at the revised version of EU GMP Annex 1 expanded and clarified the regulatory requirements of cleaning and disinfection in life science cleanrooms
  3. Incubating settle plates: Understanding growth patterns and when things are going wrong Steven Brimble from Cherwell Laboratories discusses why it is important to your environmental monitoring regime to understand growth characteristics of common cleanroom contaminants and how morphology shifts over time on various media
  4. Your options for aseptic transfer systems for isolator and RABS Dr Timo Krebsbach and Dipl.-Ing. Frank Lehmann from SKAN discuss the landscape of transfer options in pharmaceutical barrier systems
  5. Walking the tightrope: a look at air change rates How can companies design their cleanrooms in order to reach the air change rates required by ISO? Words by Simplex's Jerry Cross

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