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AAF/Dinair HEPA Filters installed by Nordic Cleanroom in cleanroom facility of VitroLife
VitroLife is one of the three major players in the world when it comes to IVF, assisted fertilisation. Their vision is to help couples fulfil their dream of having a healthy child. The company has a turnover of approximately SEK 3.5 billion and operates in 115 countries.
VitroLife currently has two factories that manufacture nutrient solutions, one in Gothenburg, Sweden, and one in Denver, USA. In order to increase its capacity to manufacture nutrient solutions, a more modern facility was required. The solution was a so-called green field, a conversion within the company's own property, which is linked to the medical technology regulations under which it operates. This made it possible to avoid the re-registration of all products that would have been required at a new address. However, this solution entailed some limitations in the cleanroom construction itself, as it was necessary to start from the existing premises in Gothenburg.
Great importance was attached to finding flexible partners, and Nordic Cleanroom, which had good references, was chosen. Nordic Cleanroom purchases HEPA filters and other products from AAF/Dinair.
The company wanted to abandon the old way of building cleanrooms, i.e. with a large fan and large HEPA filters where everything is filtered in one place, which means that large amounts of new air must be supplied, leading to high energy costs due to heating and cooling.
Nordic Cleanroom's solution was to build a cleanroom with 180 FFUs instead, which provides redundancy. Even if a fan breaks down, the cleanroom can maintain its classification, which is critical for the business. It also became an energy-efficient solution, as the air in the room can be taken in through the specially designed ducts, up into the walls and out through AAF/Dinair's energy-efficient HEPA filters. This means:
- a cleanroom with significantly more stable operation than before
- service and maintenance can be carried out without having to stop operations
- more energy-efficient operations
Jan-Erik Östlund, head of medical device manufacturing, Vitrolife Group
Nordic Cleanrooms' solution is to work with many FFUs and many returns to avoid dead zones in a cleanroom. Above the cleanroom ceiling is a plenum chamber, where fresh air and cool air are pushed in, along with pre-filtered air, which is then sucked down into the cleanroom. The fans can be controlled at room level to increase or decrease an ISO class or GMP class. Previous cleanroom constructions have had problems with excessive noise levels, which means a poorer working environment, but switching to AAF/Dinair's HEPA filters MEGAcel and AstroHood reduced the noise level by 10 dB. This is due to the low pressure drop of the filters, which also leads to reduced energy consumption.
Fredrik Olsson, Salesrep Dinair, Mattias Karlsson and Klas Forsberg from Nordic Cleanroom
An almost finished clean room
VitroLife is one of the three major players in the world when it comes to IVF, assisted fertilisation. Their vision is to help couples fulfil their dream of having a healthy child. The company has a turnover of approximately SEK 3.5 billion and operates in 115 countries.
VitroLife currently has two factories that manufacture nutrient solutions, one in Gothenburg, Sweden, and one in Denver, USA. In order to increase its capacity to manufacture nutrient solutions, a more modern facility was required. The solution was a so-called green field, a conversion within the company's own property, which is linked to the medical technology regulations under which it operates. This made it possible to avoid the re-registration of all products that would have been required at a new address. However, this solution entailed some limitations in the cleanroom construction itself, as it was necessary to start from the existing premises in Gothenburg.
Great importance was attached to finding flexible partners, and Nordic Cleanroom, which had good references, was chosen. Nordic Cleanroom purchases HEPA filters and other products from AAF/Dinair.
The company wanted to abandon the old way of building cleanrooms, i.e. with a large fan and large HEPA filters where everything is filtered in one place, which means that large amounts of new air must be supplied, leading to high energy costs due to heating and cooling.
Nordic Cleanroom's solution was to build a cleanroom with 180 FFUs instead, which provides redundancy. Even if a fan breaks down, the cleanroom can maintain its classification, which is critical for the business. It also became an energy-efficient solution, as the air in the room can be taken in through the specially designed ducts, up into the walls and out through AAF/Dinair's energy-efficient HEPA filters. This means:
- a cleanroom with significantly more stable operation than before
- service and maintenance can be carried out without having to stop operations
- more energy-efficient operations
Jan-Erik Östlund, head of medical device manufacturing, Vitrolife Group
Nordic Cleanrooms' solution is to work with many FFUs and many returns to avoid dead zones in a cleanroom. Above the cleanroom ceiling is a plenum chamber, where fresh air and cool air are pushed in, along with pre-filtered air, which is then sucked down into the cleanroom. The fans can be controlled at room level to increase or decrease an ISO class or GMP class. Previous cleanroom constructions have had problems with excessive noise levels, which means a poorer working environment, but switching to AAF/Dinair's HEPA filters MEGAcel and AstroHood reduced the noise level by 10 dB. This is due to the low pressure drop of the filters, which also leads to reduced energy consumption.
Fredrik Olsson, Salesrep Dinair, Mattias Karlsson and Klas Forsberg from Nordic Cleanroom
An almost finished clean room
