Air filters protecting microelectronics & optics and your employees’ health & safety
MANN+HUMMEL provides reliably safe solutions for cleaner air in highly sensitive microelectronics and optics production facilities.
Without clean air, essential technologies such as flat screens, laptops, hard disk drives, batteries, the solar industry, and data centres would face significant challenges. Microfine dust particles and pollutant molecules entering highly sensitive areas, such as semiconductor manufacturing or those containing sensitive electronic products, can cause damage, jeopardise manufacturing yields and, in the worst cases, even ignite fires and trigger explosions, for example in battery gigafactories. As modern hardware comes with extreme lithography technologies (below 10nm), it becomes increasingly sensitive to ultrafine particles or airborne molecular contamination (AMC), which can be detrimental to manufacturing yields. In datacenters, corrosion in electronics is a critical and harmful issue; when in a gigafactory, dry room operations need very clean air to avoid dangerous chemical reactions. That’s why effective air filtration is essential for both staff safety and the protection of electronic components, devices, machines, and processes — and, therefore, absolutely vital for a company’s economic success.
MANN+HUMMEL develops highly efficient air filters for the microelectronics and optics sectors. Our product portfolio provides a range of solutions to help protect electronic components against ultrafine particles and harmful chemical gases, including acids, bases, condensable substances, molecular metals and dopants as well as VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). Our filters are widely used in industries such as battery and solar, ensuring reliably cleaner air in data centres and semiconductor production facilities, adhering to cleanroom standards.
Our product range is divided into three categories:
- Select: Filters with an excellent balance of cost and performance
- Eco: Filters with an outstanding filtration performance and enhanced energy efficiency
- Pro: Filters designed for first-class filtration within specialised applications
Whether it's contamination from lithography processes, such as condensation on lenses and reticles, short circuits, damage to manufactured goods or hardware, health hazards, or even safety risks, we understand the critical importance of protecting microelectronics and optics from harmful airborne contaminants.
Our product highlights at a glance:
We ensure cleaner air in the microelectronics & optics sectors
Particulate matter and gases can halt the production of electronic devices and hardware. They can seriously jeopardise the health and safety of employees and lead to future faults and failures within the end products. However, our customers can substantially mitigate these risks by using filters from MANN+HUMMEL.
- Our highly efficient particle filters reliably remove fine dust of various particle sizes from the air. Fully versatile, they can be used as pre-filters and main filters in existing ventilation systems, including semiconductor air conditioners.
- Our molecular filters are effective and incredibly efficient in combating AMC in microelectronics. Airborne molecular contaminants have a maximum diameter of 100 nanometres. They include acids, bases, condensable contaminants, dopants, molecular metals, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These contaminants can all jeopardise the health of employees, significantly disrupt production processes, and impair the functionality of microelectronic and optical products, for instance, through corrosion or condensation. With molecular filters, our customers can avoid high costs for downtimes and repairs.
- We minimise energy consumption in production facilities thanks to our advanced filtration technology that actually reduces energy use while enhancing filter performance. This strategy enables our customers to save energy which, in turn, also reduces their TCO (total cost of ownership).
- We provide a versatile portfolio suitable for a wide range of applications. Our filtration products are widely used in the production and operation of data centres, flat screens, hard disk drives, wafers, and batteries. To ensure safety and to fully meet the varied needs of our customers, our bespoke service always determines the best solutions for each specific application in advance, ensuring optimum hardware performance.
MANN+HUMMEL Air Filtration: Cleaner air is our mission
We have been delivering reliably clean air across various areas and sectors for more than 80 years. We develop intelligent solutions that are powerful, reliable, and energy-efficient. Leveraging our expertise and the passion of our employees at over 80 locations worldwide, we offer innovative filtration solutions in the fields of microelectronics and optics, among numerous other sectors. Our filters play a crucial role in optimising processes within industries such as semiconductors or data centres. They maintain air cleanliness during wafer manufacturing and ensure that safety is consistently maintained during battery production. Our digital filter solutions also minimise costly hardware downtime or damage by preventing the corrosion of electrical components (in datacenters or control rooms in oil & gas or pulp and paper industries), among other benefits, thus ensuring the full protection of electronic equipment. This can make contamination control and maintenance much easier. We produce the necessary filter media in-house.
Are you interested in exploring a revolutionary type of air filtration? Would you like to significantly lower your energy and maintenance costs?