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Popular Plastic Jar Sizes for Packaging Medical Devices

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There is a lot to consider when packaging medical devices. The first step in ordering samples for testing though is is to decide which size plastic jar and cap you are going to be testing based on the width and height of your device. Here is a chart to help you determine which one of our plastic jar and caps sizes is right for you:

Browse by Diameter (Width of Jar)

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Can't decide what size opening you need? Need a low-profile or a round bottom jar? Check out our Regular Wall and Thick Wallcategory pages to find your desired shape and size.

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Or check out one of these popular sizes:

What is a "Clean Room"?

According to Wikipedia, "a cleanroom or clean room is an environment, typically used in manufacturing, including of pharmaceutical products or scientific research, as well as aerospace semiconductor engineering applications with a low level of environmental pollutants such as dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles, and chemical vapors. More accurately, a cleanroom has a controlled level of contamination that is specified by the number of particles per cubic meter at a specified particle size. To give perspective, the ambient air outside in a typical urban environment contains 35,000,000 particles per cubic meter in the size range 0.5 μm and larger in diameter, corresponding to an ISO 9 cleanroom, while an ISO 1 cleanroom allows no particles in that size range and only 12 particles per cubic meter of 0.3 μm and smaller."

According to Wikipedia, "Cleanrooms can be very large. Entire manufacturing facilities can be contained within a cleanroom with factory floors covering thousands of square meters. They are used extensively in semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology, the life sciences, and other fields that are very sensitive to environmental contamination. There are also modular cleanrooms.[4]

"The air entering a cleanroom from outside is filtered to exclude dust, and the air inside is constantly recirculated through high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) and/or ultra-low particulate air (ULPA) filters to remove internally generated contaminants.

Staff enter and leave through airlocks (sometimes including an air shower stage), and wear protective clothing such as hoods, face masks, gloves, boots, and coveralls.

Equipment inside the cleanroom is designed to generate minimal air contamination. Only special mops and buckets are used. Cleanroom furniture is designed to produce a minimum of particles and is easy to clean.

Common materials such as paper, pencils, and fabrics made from natural fibers are often excluded, and alternatives used. Cleanrooms are not sterile (i.e., free of uncontrolled microbes);[5] only airborne particles are controlled. Particle levels are usually tested using a particle counter and microorganisms detected and counted through environmental monitoring methods.[6][7]"

Some cleanrooms are kept at a positive pressure so if any leaks occur, air leaks out of the chamber instead of unfiltered air coming in.

Some cleanroom HVAC systems control the humidity to low levels, such that extra equipment ("ionizers") is necessary to prevent electrostatic discharge problems.

Low-level cleanrooms may only require special shoes, with completely smooth soles that do not track in dust or dirt. However, for safety reasons, shoe soles must not create slipping hazards. Access to a cleanroom is usually restricted to those wearing a cleanroom suit.

In cleanrooms in which the standards of air contamination are less rigorous, the entrance to the cleanroom may not have an air shower. An anteroom (known as a "gray room") is used to put on clean-room clothing.

Some manufacturing facilities do not use fully classified cleanrooms, but use some cleanroom practices to maintain their contamination requirements."

While Parkway's manufacturing facilities for our stock products are not technically "cleanrooms" we take great pride in how clean our facilities are. As part of our manufacturing process we have a 10-step part path cleaning process and our factory air is filtrated to ____. We invite you and come and visit us and see our facilities for yourself! In addition, clean room services can also available by quotation.

Jars and Caps for Medical Devices - How do I know my Jars can handle the Sterile Solution?

Searching for nice looking plastic jars for transcatheter mitral valves? When you need a plastic jar that enables you to store medical devices in a sterile solution, things can become a little more complicated.Medical device jars often need to be stored in a sterile solution. Finding a jar that will be compatible with the solution can [...]

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