Adam Peithman, Author at Allied Cleanrooms

A clean, well-lit modular cleanroom hallway with white panel walls and glass windows, designed by Allied Cleanrooms.

March 5, 2025

Cleanroom Air Change Rates: Requirements and Importance

If your cleanroom falls short on air change rates, it won’t just be a minor issue; it’s a compliance risk. Regulations often demand strict air change requirements in order to prevent contamination, protect products, workers, and consumers. If your cleanroom fails to mee...

Allied Cleanroom's controlled environment with modular wall finishes, featuring smooth, easy-to-clean surfaces and integrated windows.

February 17, 2025

Cleanroom Wall Finishes: Cleaning, Sealing & Contamination

Unfortunately, contamination in cleanrooms isn’t always easy to see. While HEPA filtration and airflow controls help, wall seams, rough surfaces, and low-quality sealing can attract and trap particles, which makes cleaning in general less effective. The right wall finis...

Spacious modular cleanroom with white walls, bright lighting, and a controlled environment.

February 6, 2025

How Tariffs and Offshore Sourcing Impact Cleanroom Costs

Right when you think you’ve got everything planned for your new cleanroom, a new tariff or trade restriction gets announced. Suddenly, you find that the cost of cleanroom materials skyrockets. Or, perhaps an important part you sourced from overseas is now tied up in cus...

Modular cleanroom by Allied Cleanrooms with white panel walls, a smooth flooring system, and a grid ceiling with integrated lighting. The room features a pass-through chamber, multiple doors, and ventilation panels, designed for controlled environments requiring high cleanliness standards.

February 1, 2025

Modular Cleanroom Walls: Pros & Cons of Finishes & Systems

With so many options for modular cleanroom walls, how do you know what to choose? Making the wrong choice in wall systems, materials, and other configurations can seriously harm your project. However, with the right information, you can choose modular walls, finishes, a...

Modular cleanroom by Allied Cleanrooms featuring white panel walls, large interior windows, a polished seamless floor, and a grid ceiling with integrated lighting—designed for controlled environments in pharmaceutical or laboratory settings.

January 16, 2025

Choosing the Right Modular Wall System for Cleanrooms

In demanding environments like cleanrooms, the wall systems do more than simply define boundaries. The right wall system can determine cleanliness, help you reach compliance, and even allow you to make future adjustments to your space. In this article, we’ll break down ...

Interior of a cleanroom with white walls, bright overhead lighting, large windows, and sealed doors, showcasing a sterile and controlled environment designed for industries like pharmaceuticals and electronics manufacturing.

January 8, 2025

ISO 6 vs ISO 7 Cleanrooms: Sorting Out the Differences

Confused about ISO 6 vs ISO 7 cleanrooms? You’re not alone, as many people get lost in the technical-sounding jargon. In truth, however, it’s not nearly as complicated as it seems. It’s important to know the difference, too, especially if you’ve been tasked with figurin...

A HEPA filter installed in a grid ceiling, designed to provide clean, filtered air in a controlled environment.

January 1, 2025

Cleanroom Fan Filter Units: What You Need to Know

The particles that cleanrooms prevent from entering may be invisible to the naked eye, but their effect on many manufacturing processes isn’t. Recalls, product damage, and lawsuits are all very real possibilities for companies that create sensitive and essential product...

Clean room by Allied Cleanrooms - USP 797, and ISO 4, ISO 5, ISO 6, ISO 7, and IS0 8, cGMP cleanroom manufacturing, soft wall cleanrooms FED-STD-209E and ISO 14644-1, control contamination

December 24, 2024

ISO 5 vs ISO 8 Cleanrooms: Understanding the Differences

If you’re unfamiliar with cleanrooms, trying to understand the difference between ISO 5 vs ISO 8 can feel frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be complicated, and it’s actually easier to grasp than it might seem at first. In this article, we’ll break down the main differ...

Workers in a food processing plant sorting produce on a conveyor belt. The workers are wearing protective gear, including hairnets, gloves, and masks, ensuring cleanliness and hygiene during food handling.

December 18, 2024

Food Processing Cleanrooms: Benefits, Features, and Uses

Every year, millions of pounds of food are recalled because of contamination, costing companies lots of money, and worse, putting consumers at risk. Cleanrooms help nip this problem in the bud by keeping food processing plants clean, which of course means safer food for...

A laminar flow hood inside a cleanroom, labeled SterilGARD, with instructions posted on the front panel and a clear viewing window on the right wall. The workspace includes a reflective stainless steel surface, with a cardboard sheet on the floor in the foreground.

December 11, 2024

Horizontal vs Vertical Laminar Flow Hoods: A Simple Guide

If you’re struggling to understand the differences between horizontal vs vertical laminar flow hoods, you’re not alone. Understanding laminar airflow and fluid dynamics can bring back painful memories of high school physics classes, and in truth, it’s not necessary to u...

December 3, 2024

Cleanroom Air Filtration: Types of Filters and What They Do

It’s no secret that a major part of keeping cleanrooms pristine and spotless comes down to air filtration. In any cleanroom, air filters work together to trap particles of a wide range of sizes. Whether you’re working within a compounding pharmacy, semiconductor fabrica...

Stainless steel pass-through chamber in a GMP-compliant cleanroom built by Allied Cleanrooms.

November 27, 2024

Cleanroom Airlocks: A Simple Guide to Their Purpose and Use

Whenever a person or object enters or exits a cleanroom, there’s always the risk of contamination. Controlled environments are delicate, and organizations that use them must be extra careful to protect the processes happening inside. Airlocks happen to be one of the bes...

Author: Adam Peithman

Cleanroom Air Change Rates: Requirements and Importance

Cleanroom Wall Finishes: Cleaning, Sealing & Contamination

How Tariffs and Offshore Sourcing Impact Cleanroom Costs

Modular Cleanroom Walls: Pros & Cons of Finishes & Systems

Choosing the Right Modular Wall System for Cleanrooms

ISO 6 vs ISO 7 Cleanrooms: Sorting Out the Differences

Cleanroom Fan Filter Units: What You Need to Know

ISO 5 vs ISO 8 Cleanrooms: Understanding the Differences

Food Processing Cleanrooms: Benefits, Features, and Uses

Horizontal vs Vertical Laminar Flow Hoods: A Simple Guide

Cleanroom Air Filtration: Types of Filters and What They Do

Cleanroom Airlocks: A Simple Guide to Their Purpose and Use

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