Contamination controls are essential for every cleanroom environment: space agencies transporting unwieldy satellites; semiconductor manufacturers positioning delicate production equipment; pharmaceutical companies moving painstakingly packed chromatography columns and more. In a cleanroom environment, there is no margin for error when a single particulate of dust can be catastrophic. Contamination can cause damages and delays likely to cost the organisation millions of pounds. Such facilities require a material handling solution that can ensure safe movement and positioning of sensitive and expensive equipment without damaging the equipment or floor surface or injuring personnel. An ideal solution can be found in the same technology that powers hovercraft and air hockey tables. By floating delicate, heavy loads on a thin film of air, many space agencies and other production facilities with cleanroom environments have effectively turned their invaluable products into oversized, high-priced air hockey pucks that can be easily transported and precisely positioned with minimal risk of damage. The transporting device? Air casters.
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