Cleaning parts before they enter the cleanroom is an art in itself. The Frencken Group has chosen to master it. Last quarter, the company unveiled a cleaning line that will enable it to clean parts so they meet the stringent demands of ultra-high vacuum.
Time doesn’t stand still in the high-tech sector. Large OEMs are increasingly probing the boundaries of what’s technologically possible, with machine parts whose design is getting smaller and more complex by the day. Because contaminated parts can disrupt their clients’ processes, parts cleaning is also growing more complex, and cleanliness standards are constantly getting stricter.
Not many people realize it, but the cleaning of components before they may enter a cleanroom is a specialism in itself. ‘For a specific type of material that always comes in the same way, you can figure out a cleaning process,’ says Sjoerd Thomassen, a customer team leader at Frencken. ‘But you have to accommodate different types of materials, process fluids and component geometries. You also have different cleaning requirements you have to meet, and different suppliers each observe their own standards of cleanliness.’
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