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Flu Season in the Cleanroom: Protecting Your Team and Your Product

October 1, 2026

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Respiratory illness season creates a problem most cleanroom managers do not plan for until they are already short-staffed. It is not only that people call out. It is that the people who stay work longer shifts, gown in more often, cover unfamiliar stations, and cut corners they would never cut in March. A contamination event and a bad flu week tend to show up on the same calendar page for a reason. The cleanroom supply experts at Medco Supplies put toge...

Sole Searching: Matching Shoe Covers to Your Floor and Your ESD Program

September 1, 2026

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Shoe covers get treated as a commodity. Grab a box, hand them out at the gowning bench, done. But the cover that keeps particles off your floor is not always the cover that keeps your operators grounded, and the one with the best traction on epoxy may be the one that sheds fibers in an ISO Class 5 suite. Picking correctly means thinking about three things at once: what is on the floor, what your ESD program requires, and how far people actually walk. Th...

Cleanroom Wipes 101: Picking the Right Wipe for the Job

August 1, 2026

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Not all cleanroom wipes are created equal. Using the wrong wipe in the wrong environment can leave behind fibers, introduce contamination, generate static, or simply fail to clean effectively. With so many options on the market, polyester, polycellulose, nonwoven, dry, presaturated, ESD-safe, selecting the right wipe comes down to understanding your surface, your classification, and your contamination risk. The team at Medco Supplies put together this g...

Sticky Mat 101: How to Maximize Contamination Control at Every Entry Point

July 1, 2026

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The floor is the largest surface in any controlled environment, and it never stops accumulating contamination. Every person who walks in brings particles with them, and every wheel, cart, or piece of equipment rolling across the threshold adds more. Sticky mats are your first line of defense, but only when placed correctly, sized right, and replaced on schedule. The cleanroom supply experts at Medco Supplies put together this guide to help you map every...

ESD Control in High-Volume Production

June 1, 2026

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In high-volume electronics and semiconductor production, electrostatic discharge is one of the most costly and preventable sources of product failure. A single uncontrolled discharge can damage sensitive components invisibly, causing latent defects that only surface after a product reaches the customer. The ESD control experts at Medco Supplies have put together this guide to help you build a reliable ESD protection program that scales with your product...