December 17, 2025
Allied Cleanrooms will be exhibiting at MD&M West 2026, which takes place from February 3rd to the 5th at the Anaheim Convention Center. We’ll be there alongside other manufacturers, engineers, and suppliers across the medical device, pharmaceutical, and life scienc...
November 12, 2025
Before your cleanroom is built, it can look perfect on paper or in theory. You may even feel good about having designed an efficient space. The only problem is that it has never been tested in real life. That’s when businesses discover they can’t access the HEPA filters...
Read more about Post-Build Cleanroom Planning: What to Know Early On
November 2, 2025
When planning a cleanroom or starting a checklist, it’s very tempting to jump straight into the design. However, before any quotes, you’ll need a clear URS (user requirement specification). In this guide, we’ll cover what a cleanroom URS is, what to include within it, a...
Read more about How to Create a Cleanroom URS: A Short Guide
October 24, 2025
A simple mote of dust in the wrong place at the wrong time can destroy products, and even make them dangerous to consumers. What’s more, this doesn’t usually happen by any dramatic actions, but mostly through negligence. Particles are so tiny and so invisible, that many...
September 4, 2025
Given the high standards for cleanrooms and all their related high-tech features, you’d think that a cleanroom could stay clean on its own. But unfortunately, particles still find their way in and can linger if not for cleanroom cleaning protocols. In this guide, we’ll ...
August 6, 2025
Within pharmaceutical manufacturing, compounding, and other drug-handling spaces, buffer rooms and anterooms are often used to keep medications safe. You’ll find them in multi-room cleanroom suites, but especially in pharmacies, hospitals, and drug manufacturing more ge...
Read more about Buffer Room vs Anteroom: What’s the Difference?
July 17, 2025
Unfortunately, just because a cleanroom looks clean does not always mean it is clean enough or compliant. Since particles and airflow are often far too difficult to see with the eyes alone, several cleanroom testing methods can be employed to help reveal problems with y...
July 2, 2025
Class 1000 cleanrooms are built to meet particle count limits in many industries, and correspond to ISO Class 6 in the current standard system. In this article, we will define class 1000 cleanrooms, discuss where they’re used, outline some of their requirements and feat...
Read more about Class 1000 Cleanrooms: Definition, Standards, & Requirements
June 25, 2025
Over- or under-engineering a cleanroom can either raise costs carelessly or put compliance at risk. When planning to build a cleanroom (or making a checklist), there are many factors to consider, and one of the most important is whether to use a softwall or hardwall env...
Read more about Hardwall vs Softwall Cleanrooms: What’s the Difference?
June 10, 2025
Before creating any cleanroom, whether for manufacturing or research, you’ll need to know how clean the space ought to be, or at least which particles (and what sizes) may cause issues. For better or for worse, many industries and their related standards still require s...
Read more about Class 10000 Cleanrooms: Definition, Requirements, and More
June 4, 2025
USP 797 is more than just a set of guidelines; its rules were designed to protect patients. And it does this by making sure sterile medications are prepared safely in controlled environments. A cleanroom is one such environment, and one of the most important of any m...
Read more about USP 797 Cleanrooms: Definition, Requirements, and Design
May 27, 2025
Cleanroom design can seem difficult or overly technical at first. This is not far from the truth, but understanding the basics is much easier than most people think. In short, designing a well-functioning cleanroom is all about controlling the environment, especially wh...
