Two New Certifications for Nye Clean Rooms
Recently, Nye Lubricants has qualified two clean rooms.
- The Technical Products team is now working in a certified Class 100,000 Clean Room. This team produces ultrafiltered grease and oil products for a variety of industries. In order to certify a Class 100,000 clean room to ISO Class 7 standards, fourteen locations were mapped out on a grid of the room and monitored in the room during working hours and at rest. The air was passed through a filter at an average flowrate of 1 cubic ft/min and particles were collected and sized. Our Technical Products production area had less than 20,000 particles > 0.5 micron per cubic foot of air, meeting the Class 100,000 specification of less than 100,000 particles > 0.5 micron per cubic foot of air.
- Our Pennzane® room has been tested and certified to a Class 10,000 Clean Room, testing to ISO Class 8 room with an average particle count of less than 2,000 particles > 0.5 micron per cubic foot of air during normal production hours. All the equipment in the Pennzane room is dedicated to Pennzane, preventing any possibilities of cross contamination. When visiting Nye's Clean Room facilities, one will notice that special garments are in place for production employees and visitors. All of our employees that access the room have been trained on special procedures for gowning. Hair nets, booties, gloves, and gowning are all required to ensure the materials produced and filtered in these rooms meet the stringent ISO and customer requirements.
