Rent a cleanroom
Cleanroom rental immediately raises a number of questions. What do you need? What will you use the spaces for? Is the travel distance a factor to consider? The word ‘cleanroom’ is a general term, but the differences within the range are enormous.
What will you use the spaces for?
Is it dead or living dust? Lids on baby food, communications equipment for rockets, cytostatic agents for hospitals. These are just some of the products that are created in a cleanroom. Renting a cleanroom, an existing dust-free space, often requires a stroke of luck. This is because every cleanroom composition is unique. Highcare’s metal cleanrooms are moveable. This Tilburg-based company has been installing, producing and designing metal cleanrooms according to the Industrial Flexible Demountable (IFD) system for twenty-five years.
Renting
Highcare is the only company in the market to supply ready-to-use cleanrooms: walls, floors, technical installations and HEPA filter units. All components are of high quality, industrially prefabricated and coordinated. The rental of existing cleanrooms is a unique combination that rarely occurs. Since mobile clean room rental is rare, the chances of success in the cleanroom sector are limited. If the spaces are at all suitable, the travel distance is usually the issue.
Leasing
We are happy to assist you, but we are afraid that the chance of finding a clean room for hire in the right location is slim. New construction and possibly leasing, on the other hand, are realistic solutions. The pace of construction is high and the costs are relatively low. Everything under one roof. Highcare installs, produces and designs dust-free spaces. Unique, highly certified, air-conditioned metal cleanrooms. Perhaps you will find that unique rental solution through LabForRent.
Reliable and reproducible
The demand for cleanrooms is increasing, notes De Bruijn, who works with companies in the semiconductor, precision engineering, (bio)pharmaceutical, food and aerospace industries. “More and more business processes require special conditions in order to assemble products in a reliable and reproducible way. A cheaper alternative might be to rent a cleanroom. However, the chances of success are small. The technology in semiconductors, for example, is at such a high level that the air must be incredibly clean, with the right relative humidity and temperature to prevent a dust particle from disrupting the process.” With these higher production requirements, reliability is playing an increasingly important role. “With their image in mind, customers want to avoid errors at all costs. So you don’t have to be reliable for just one hour, but 24/7, every time a measurement is taken, for the long term and in large quantities.” Highcare has specialized in this field.
Commercial appeal
The commercial appeal of a cleanroom also contributes to growth. “If, as a company, you can say that you have a cleanroom available for production, customers see this as a distinguishing feature. It indicates that you can provide a high-quality production environment, which is regularly checked against a whole series of quality requirements by an objective assessor. That inspires confidence,” De Bruijn explains. Highcare’s cleanrooms are composed of carefully selected inert materials that are suitable for sterile environments and, depending on the sector, comply with international standards such as ISO, cGMP, HACCP and BRC.
Highcare’s history
The company started out as an installation company that mainly worked for Philips in the 1960s. Philips was the company’s first customer for dust-free rooms. The upgrading of the assembly workshops took place in the Volt factories in Tilburg.
In the early 1970s, under the inspiring leadership of Koos Nolte, the company developed its operations. In addition to familiar installation technology, the company expanded into other areas including traffic infrastructure, airports, parking garages and high-quality, dust-free spaces. The 1970s provided the ideal climate for these new developments. Highcare’s predecessor grew into one of the largest manufacturers during that time.
Philips
In the late 1980s, the parent company, the NIG Group, was sold to Stork. During that period, Philips, its largest customer, started a reorganization under the powerful name of ‘Centurion’. Stork responded by spinning off all non-core activities and stipulated that the acquisition candidates could no longer use the old company name.
Now that its largest client was reorganizing, a shift in strategy was needed and the company continued under a new name ‘Highcare’. During that period and as part of its international aspirations, Highcare developed an innovative construction technology: IFD.
Stand-alone systems
Another advantage of the IFD concept is that the cleanroom can be placed as a stand-alone system within an existing company building. Like a box within a box. “That’s particularly attractive for young entrepreneurs. If they move to a larger building after a few years, they can move the cleanroom with them without any problems,” De Bruijn explains.
Sale leaseback construction
If a client opts for a sale leaseback construction, it is important that this cleanroom is not permanently attached to the building, with the exception of the floor covering.
Highcare installs, produces and designs cleanrooms
The cost of an average cleanroom depends on the project and ranges from anywhere between €150,000 to €1.5 million. Highcare’s clients include DSM, VDL, Arion, BasicPharma, Pranapharm Russia, Louwers Hanique, Weener Plastics and Antwerp Space. For next year, De Bruijn has set his sights on other countries. “We’re already active in Belgium, Germany, Russia and Bulgaria, but we want to expand further into Brazil and the Middle East.”
Eastern Europe
Under the safe umbrella of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, the company has also supplied cleanrooms in Eastern Europe. Since 2002, Highcare has been led by director Bas de Bruijn. He graduated from the IHBO Institute of Technology in Tilburg in 1985 with a degree in Civil Engineering.