Cleanroom Furniture

Ordinary furniture sheds particles, traps dust in joints and corrodes under repeated disinfection. Cleanroom (or clean room) furniture is designed the other way round: smooth, non-porous surfaces that do not shed, rounded edges and corners that are easy to wipe, continuous welds with no crevices for dirt and microbes to collect, and no hollow spaces that cannot be cleaned.

Stainless steel is the material of choice because it is hard, non-porous and stands up to daily cleaning with disinfectants and sporicides. Open or tubular frames let the room's filtered air flow around and under the furniture, instead of creating dead zones where particles settle.

If you are upgrading for revised Schedule M, our equipment checklist maps each requirement to the equipment that serves it.

SS 304 is the standard grade for cleanroom furniture and suits most pharmaceutical, biotech, hospital and food areas. SS 316 contains molybdenum, which gives better resistance to pitting from chlorides and strong oxidising disinfectants. It is worth choosing for aseptic areas and rooms disinfected several times a day.

Finish matters as much as grade: a smooth matt or mirror finish, ground and polished welds and rounded edges are what make a surface quick to clean and slow to collect contamination. Furniture is usually planned together with the room's cleanroom equipment, such as pass boxes and laminar air flow units.