Guardtech partner with Intense Pulsed Light innovators Biopulz to offer game-changing new cleanroom decontamination solution
New partnership will give Guardtech clients access to Biopulz’s mobile Eloane tower and integrated E-z̈o IPL decontamination system as part of their cleanroom installation projects
GUARDTECH has formed a new partnership with French technology company Biopulz to promote the use of Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) disinfection across its cleanroom facilities.
The collaboration brings together Guardtech’s design and construction expertise with two Biopulz systems: Eloane, a mobile tower that can be moved between rooms, and E-z̈o, a modular system whose optical units can be built into the fabric of a cleanroom’s wall panels.
Both systems use brief, high-intensity flashes of light to reduce microorganisms on exposed surfaces. Eloane offers a flexible option for treating accessible surfaces in existing cleanrooms. E-z̈o allows light sources to be positioned around a room, airlock or enclosure during the design stage, helping reach areas that a single mobile unit might leave in shadow.
Guardtech can now offer E-z̈o integration for clients within the panel systems used by Guardtech Cleanrooms for modular facilities and Cleanroom Solutions for larger, more complex projects. The same approach could be incorporated into Cleancube container cleanrooms, where equipment footprint and efficient use of space are particularly important. Each installation would be designed around the room layout, process, safety requirements and site-specific qualification needs.
IPL offers a different approach from vapour-phase hydrogen peroxide (VHP) treatment or peroxide fogging. Because it uses light rather than a dispersed chemical, it requires no peroxide dosing or chemical refill and leaves no chemical residue.
Guardtech Managing Director Mark Wheeler said: “We’re constantly looking for innovations that can make our cleanrooms and services work harder for the people using them. The opportunity with Biopulz is especially exciting because disinfection can be considered as part of the cleanroom design itself. Whether it’s a modular build, a major turnkey facility or a Cleancube, we want to give clients practical options that fit their process and help them make the most of their space.”
Biopulz’s Eloane treatment can be completed in as little as ten minutes without shutting down the room’s air handling system, offering a significant downtime reduction compared to other methods of cleanroom decontamination.
The methods have different coverage characteristics: IPL treats surfaces reached by the light, so equipment layouts and shadowed areas must be assessed. E-z̈o addresses that challenge by distributing optical units around the space. Performance and suitability would be qualified for each application as part of the client’s contamination control strategy.
The partnership reflects Guardtech’s continuing mission to explore, develop and incorporate new technologies that improve its cleanroom products and services throughout a facility’s working life – a sentiment shared by Christophe Dufour, CEO of Biopulz, who added: “Guardtech understands that an effective cleanroom is designed around the realities of its operation. By working together, we can consider where Eloane provides the flexibility of a mobile system and where E-z̈o can become an integral part of the facility. It is an exciting opportunity to bring Intense Pulsed Light technology to more organisations seeking efficient, traceable surface disinfection, and we can’t wait to start offering this revolutionary solution to more and more clients across the diverse world of controlled environments over the years to come.”
For more on Guardtech’s cleanroom construction provision, visit www.guardtech.com, email sales@guardtech.com or call 0330 113 0303. For more on Biopulz, visit: https://biopulz.com.
