Messe Frankfurt and Wiley present the Cleanzone Award

(Messe Frankfurt/Sandra Gätke)

The industry’s prestigious Cleanroom Award has a new name: the Cleanzone Award. Frank Duvernell, a close and long-standing partner of Cleanzone and founder of the Cleanroom Award, has handed over the award to Messe Frankfurt, which will be continuing it under a new name: the Cleanzone Award. The new partner is Wiley-Verlag, publisher of the trade journal ReinRaumTechnik. A total of eight finalists for the award will be presenting their latest innovations at Cleanzone on 19 and 20 November in Frankfurt.

Since 2012, the Cleanroom Award has been presented at the international trade fair for contamination control and cleanroom technology, and it has become a highly respected honour within the industry. Kerstin Horaczek, Group Show Director for Technology at Messe Frankfurt: “I would really like to thank Frank Duvernell for making the award what it is today. We are delighted that we can continue with this award, and that we have been able to gain the publishing house Wiley-Verlag as our new partner. With their invaluable expertise and excellent network in the cleanroom community, we will make this award even more important as an innovation driver in the industry in future.”

The Cleanzone Award honours outstanding innovations that set new standards for efficiency in the field of contamination control and offer key concepts for the future of cleanroom technology. The award promotes innovation in a field whose role at the forefront of dynamic high-tech industry makes providing new solutions a regular necessity.

The companies and their innovations:

- Cleanroom.de: myCleanroomShopAR – Game-changer in cleanroom e-commerce
- Commend: Commend Emergency and Danger Response System for Clean Rooms ENSURING LOW RISK FOR HIGH TECH
- Friedrich Sailer: Hygienic Design Magnet – Magnetic Mounting Solution for Cleanrooms
- Elis: Reusable autoclave bags
- Ergo/Physion: Tension Terminator: The device that eliminates tension
- ISO One: Cleanroom Lighting
- RAL: The new standard colour RAL 9012
- VWR: ViVi® - designed for high performance

All eight finalists for the Cleanzone Award 2019 worth 3,000 euros will be presenting their projects in the Cleanzone Conference area on 19 November from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. International trade fair guests will also be able to find out more about these innovations at a special exhibition at the trade fair. From these eight nominees, visitors to the trade fair will choose the winner, who will be presented with the award at the Cleanzone Conference on 20 November from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.