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Delphon Announces Promotion of Pradeep Mishra to Chief Operating Officer

Hayward, Ca — APRIL 14, 2026 — Delphon, an advanced materials and device handling solutions provider serving the semiconductor, photonics, medical, and electronics industries, today announced the promotion of Pradeep Mishra to Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately.

The Hidden Threat in Cleanrooms: Why Silicone-Free Tape & Labels Are Essential for Critical Manufacturing

Cleanrooms exist to protect the world’s most sensitive manufacturing processes—from semiconductor wafer fabrication and high-reliability electronics to aerospace/defense systems and pharmaceutical products. Every variable is tightly controlled: airflow, humidity, particulate levels, surfaces, gowning practices, and equipment protocols. Yet despite the...

The Hidden Sources of Contamination in Cleanrooms: Why Tape and Labels Matter More Than You Think

Cleanroom environments are designed to maintain strict control over airborne particles, humidity, and other environmental factors. Despite rigorous protocols and advanced filtration systems, contamination can still arise from less obvious sources. Among these, tapes and labels—often considered routine consumables—can introduce...

Sticking Points: Navigating the World of Adhesives, Tapes, and Labels

In highly controlled environments such as pharmaceutical or semiconductor cleanrooms, maintaining sterility is crucial. Even the smallest contamination can compromise product safety and pose a severe risk to the entire operation. While much attention is given to equipment, procedures, and...

The Importance of Using Cleanroom Tape During Cleanroom Construction

When constructing a cleanroom, maintaining a contamination-free environment is paramount. Cleanrooms are specialized spaces designed to control airborne particles, temperature, humidity, and other environmental factors to ensure the highest standards of cleanliness. One often overlooked but crucial component in achieving...

Jeanne Beacham Featured in Concora Podcast

Jeanne Beacham Viewpoint 2021

To say that our industry's landscape experienced a profound shift in 2020 is an understatement. Companies found themselves plunged from the familiar rhythm of day-to-day business, with carefully thought-out roadmaps, to a sea of uncertainty fueled by a global pandemic...

OSHA Guidance for preparing workplaces for COVID-19

Graphic Overlays

Selecting the substrate for the graphic overlay is a key part of the product development process and there are several considerations to review prior to making the decision on which product to use. Will the graphic overlay be exposed to...

Globally Harmonized System (GHS)

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) was established to create a unified system for identifying and communicating hazardous chemicals. Health care facility and laboratory end users must make sure their chemical labels are GHS compliant.

Floor Mark Is Used to Identify Walkways

Floor marking is used to identify walkways, aisles or other spaces in a facility. Using the right floor tape can enhance safety and improve organizational efficiency. While safety is a clear goal for floor marking, durability is also key. Floor...

Manufacturers are instituting protections throughout the supply chain

The counterfeit drug market is growing rapidly, and Deloitte accountants currently value it between $75 billion to $200 billion according to data culled from Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices Trends & Opportunities in Packaging Operations. The research report from PMMI, The...

Adhesive Considerations for Direct-Skin Wearable Medical Technologies

In addition to caring for the sick, today's medical providers are also heavily focused on prevention, patient education, and health and wellness strategies. As part of this newer approach to healthcare, providers are implementing ways to deliver additional care options...

What is Peel Adhesion?

Peel adhesion is the force required to remove a pressure sensitive adhesive from a testing plate or its own backing material. The goal of a peel adhesion test is to determine the adhesive strength level of the material between two...

Cleanrooms: The Total Package

Thu, 11/16/2017 - 4:09pm by Greg Owen, PE, Jacobs.

Rethinking Pharmaceutical Labeling

For the pharmaceutical industry, the focus is on patient safety and improved patient outcomes. It's also on driving greater efficiencies, cost reductions, and collaboration with contract manufacturers throughout the supply chain. In this environment, labeling is growing in importance, and...

Outgassing – The Unlikely Culprits

Outgassing is a critical issue in the manufacturing of electronic devices such as LED’s, cameras and hard disk drives. Outgassing is where gasses are released from a material that has either been dissolved, trapped, frozen or absorbed during the manufacturing...

Pharmaceutical Labeling

Label production of any kind is challenging and exacting, requiring the manufacturer to explore the new and unusual, to meet thorough standards set by demanding customers. Pharmaceutical labeling, however, just might be the most demanding of all. The discipline required...

Cleanroom Operations

Cleanrooms are defined as a room or suite of rooms, in which the concentration of airborne particles is maintained within established parameters and where other factors are controlled to within specified limits. These rooms are designed to provide control of...

Cleanrooms Unlock Secrets of the Past

Thu, 07/06/2017, By: MaryBeth DiDonna Editor - cemagazineus - MaryBeth DiDonna

PARTICLE TESTING FOR CLEANROOM FORMS AND LABELS

By: Greg A. Jarmin Source: Controlled Environments

Things to know about the successful use of Pressure Sensitive Adhesives

Selecting the proper adhesive is essential to the success of the label in each application. UltraTape’s adhesives are formulated to withstand harsh chemical and solvent attacks in the most hostile process conditions. A wide variety of acrylic adhesives are available,...

VOC Emissions from Cleanroom Materials

By Markus Keller

The Benefits of Antimicrobial Technology in Healthcare Facilities

Patient outcomes and staff safety are top priorities for hospitals. But harmful microbes such as E. Colli and MRSA make it difficult for medical facilities to protect patients and staff against cross contamination. Reducing the risk of infection and maintaining...

The Importance of Machinery Safety Labels

A Matter of Risk Assessment, Liability & Compliance: Machine Safety Labeling in the 21st Century By Geoffrey Peckham Sep 15, 2014

The Importance of Designing The Industrial Control Panel Overlay

Original equipment manufacturers from all industries, including medical device manufacturing, heavy equipment, appliances and transportation, rely on the quality of their equipment’s graphic overlays to effectively communicate instructions, control markings and branding. It is also imperative that control panel overlays...

The High Cost of Label Failure

Failure of a label to adhere, or to withstand the harsh conditions of the environment it is used in can have significant consequences. Medical and pharmaceutical labs have the arduous task of sample management. With the rapid advances taking place...

Tips for Designing Labels

Keep your Audience in Mind

The Importance of Asset Tags

Keeping track of your property, expensive equipment, and other assets is a common challenge business owners everywhere face. This particular task can be very troublesome, especially without the proper knowledge and equipment needed to employ an effective asset management system.

19 Steps to Better Cleanroom Construction

As the demand for complex cleanrooms in the life sciences grows, construction challenges mount. Making the right decisions during the building and commissioning phases of cleanrooms will help to ensure that they are successful, better integrated, more operable and sustainable....

Choosing the right tape for the job

Tape adhesion is influenced by a number of factors and may adhere differently depending on what it is being applied to. Materials like metals and glass have high surface energy and tapes generally like to stick to them. Plastics, however,...

5 Tips for floor marking in frigid environments

The chill in the air is a reminder that now is a good time to review best practices when it comes to floor marking in frigid environments. Marking aisles and hazardous conditions can be a difficult task in cold food...

Modification of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS)

Q. What is the Globally Harmonized System?

Top 5 Ways a Tape and Label Specialist Can Boost Profits

Sourcing, specifying, and purchasing adhesive tapes and labels can be a daunting process. In many cases, a specialty tape manufacturer with converting capabilities can be a great partner to help you find the correct tape, integrate it into your current...

Hidden Sources of Contamination in the Cleanroom

The objective of an environmentally controlled cleanroom is to provide a contamination-free space in which to test and/or manufacture contamination-free products. Nonetheless, contamination has a way of unexpectedly occurring without any indication of its origin.

IDENTIFY THE WORKPLACE HAZARDS

Can your employees identify the workplace hazards on the new OSHA pictograms?