The requirements for Clean Room Garments is diverse and highly dependent on the industry type and the Clean Room standard or classification for that industry. Garment types include Jumpsuits, Lab Coats, Scrubs and Gowns, Overshoes and Overboots, Hoods or Head and Face protection.
Specially designed fabrics that are certified for specific clean room garments are required in order to maintain a clean room standards. Often these highly specialized fabrics have an electrostatic discharge grid built into them.
It is also of utmost importance to ensure that all garments are made to specific standards as all seams, joints and parts of a proper clean room garment have to be sewn together using internationally recognized contamination control standards and this cannot be skipped or the cleanroom environment will potentially not be able to be maintained.
Fabric Specifications for each of the Clean Room Classifications:
Clean Tech 1 Clean Tech 2 Clean Tech 3 Clean Tech 4
Properties Fluid resistant continuous filament thread
Woven
CoatedHigh anti-static
Built in fluid resistant properties
CoatedHigh performance fabric
Fluid resistant
Coated
Built in anti-static properties
Carbon thread in line formation
Silver Ion Anti-bacterial coating
Wickable surface finishHigh performance fabric
Fluid resistant
Coated
Carbon thread in grid formation
Silver Ion Anti-bacterial coating
Wickable surface finish
Application Lower class clean rooms and anti-particulate environments
Also for undergarments
Specific class of clean rooms and anti-particulate environments Food, medical, pharmaceutical environments For industries where it is essential to protect products from static dissipative particles as well as airborne particles
Class 100 000 Coated
Also 10 000 suitable
100 000 Coated
Also 10 000 suitable1000 ESD 100 GRID
Clean Room Equivalents FED6.5
Class G
ISO 8
FED6.5
Class G
ISO 8
FED4.5
Class D
ISO 7
FED3
Class C
ISO 6-5
Colours Sky Blue
Royal Blue
Black
Green
White
Sky Blue
Navy Blue
Baby Blue
White
Navy Blue
White
