Cleanroom Award 2018: The nominees have been chosen

CAPE Flexibles / Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung IPA, Deutschland

AP ICT Apex Isolator cleaning tool / Apex Protect-Hamit Cincin, Türkei

VR Prozess- und Verhaltenstraining / Innerspace GmbH, Österreich; VR Process and Behavioural Training / Innerspace GmbH, Austria

Klappbarer Tisch für Servicetechniker, KEK GmbH, Deutschland; Foldable Table for Service Technicians, KEK GmbH, Germany

Aero Alscohol Dispenser, Desinfektionsmittelspender / Steris Corporation, USA; Aero Alcohol Dispenser, Disinfectant Dispenser / Steris Corporation, USA

The nominees for the Cleanroom Award 2018 have been chosen. The award sponsored by Reinraum Akademie from Leipzig acknowledges innovative, sustainable and energy-efficient concepts for cleanroom technology and is annually conferred during the trade fair Cleanzone. The five members of the expert jury have chosen five submissions from Austria, Turkey, U.S.A. and Germany.

In 2018, Reinraum Akademie will confer the Cleanroom Award for the seventh time. The award acknowledges the best concepts regarding innovation, sustainability and energy-efficiency in cleanroom technology. Companies, organisations, research facilities and individuals were invited to submit their applications until the 31st of July 2018. A jury consisting of five renowned expert members chose five nominees from all submissions. The selected candidates will have the opportunity to present their concepts in their own dedicated areas to an expert audience at Cleanzone, an international trade fair for cleanroom technology. The fair will take place on the 23rd and the 24th of October 2018 in Frankfurt am Main. The award is an audience prize. The winners will be chosen by the fair’s visitors by means of a voting. In addition to the award, Frank Duvernell – who is the founder of Reinraum Akademie and the initiator of the award - will present the winning company with a cheque in the amount of 3,000 Euros.

This year’s submissions cover a wide variety of topics and include novel types of devices, new cleanroom furniture and flexible, textile cleanrooms. The nominees are from Austria, Turkey, U.S.A. and Germany.

The nominees:

Company: Apex Protect-Hamit Cincin, Turkey
Product: AP ICT Apex Isolator Cleaning Tool
Concept: The mop AP ICT was developed to clean insulators and LAF workbenches as well as all parts made from autoclavable stainless steel as easily as possible. The device is shaped like a flat iron and is able to clean even hard-to-reach corners better than previous mops by means of its contoured apex.

Company: Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
Product: CAPE Flexible Cleanroom Module
Concept: The CAPE Cleanroom Module is a mobile cleanroom tent that can be implemented particularly quickly and that warrants cleanroom classes 1 to 9 according to ISO 14644-1. It can be configured individually and is energy-efficient, washable, recyclable and space-saving regarding its storage.

Company: Innerspace GmbH, Austria
Product: VR Process- und Behavioural Training
Concept: With this concept, users can train actively in realistically simulated production areas by means of Virtual Reality. The training programme includes integrated body tracking and repeatable training units.

Company: KEK GmbH, Germany
Product: Foldable Table for Service Technicians
Concept: This concept represents a table for temporal use that can be folded particularly quickly, for example for service technicians. It can be stored and transported extremely space-savingly and even in very narrow places and can be cleaned quickly and simply.

Company: Steris Corporation, U.S.A.
Product: Aero Alcohol Dispenser, Disinfectant Dispenser
Concept: A flexible standing unit for hand disinfection that can be handled simultaneously by elbows, hands or feet. It is autoclavable, safe, efficient and flexible in its installation within production facilities or places/work environments in which hands have to be disinfected regularly or occasionally.

Expert Jury 2018:

- Egon Buchta, Egon Buchta GmbH
- Frank Duvernell, Reinraum Akademie
- Dr. Roy Fox, ReinraumTechnik/GIT Verlag
- Prof. Gerhard Winter
- Josef Ortner, Ortner Reinraumtechnik