Freudenberg Medical, a Kaiserslautern, Germany-based contract design manufacturing partner, launched CleanAssure, a new ISO Class 5 controlled cleanroom designed to deliver clean and sterile single-use assemblies for biopharmaceutical customers, according to the company. Freudenberg Medical manufactures silicone and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) tubing for bioprocessing and critical fluid transfer. The company specializes in seamless, overmolded single-use assemblies used in vaccine production, cell cultivation, fluid transfer, and fill-finish operations. The controlled cleanroom enables customers to receive ready-to-use washed, dried, and gamma sterilized single-use assemblies with the highest product quality, sterility, and process consistency, noted Rudi Gall, vp, global pharma, Freudenberg Medical. “CleanAssure allows us to support our customers beyond component manufacturing,” he said. “By integrating controlled cleaning and sterilization into our single-use assembly services, we help reduce contamination risk, streamline validation activities, and support a reliable supply for our customers. We can now support customers with their entire component value chain and allow them to focus on their core manufacturing capability.” Freudenberg’s cleaning process uses ultrapure water and air, operating within ISO 5 conditions. The water is produced using a multi-stage filtration process, resulting in high-purity water specifically suitable for pharmaceutical applications. Key biopharma industry challenges Biopharmaceutical manufacturers increasingly rely on single-use systems but face ongoing challenges related to cleaning validation, contamination risk, and production downtime. Customer-managed cleaning processes are often time-intensive, costly, and require additional resources while directly impacting supply reliability, according to Gall. The company explained that its controlled cleaning environment addresses these challenges by reducing cross-contamination risk through tightly…
