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In the UK alone, thousands of people each year develop lung diseases as a result of their occupation, through breathing in dust, fumes, or dangerous airborne contaminants in their workplace. Many [...]

  Action speaks louder than words and when our customers speak, we take action! ‘Reliable’, ‘high quality’, ‘useful’ and ‘good value for money’ are the words and phrases that received the [...]

New scientific evidence from the International Agency for Research on Cancer indicates that welding fumes can cause lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer. The findings have been used by the [...]

H₂O₂ (hydrogen peroxide) is an oxidising agent which, when it comes into contact with micro-organisms, oxidises their cells or spores, thus deactivating them. It is however, a surface [...]

We’ve moved! (…but not too far) Our new head office address is: Beech House Ancells Business Park Ancells Road Fleet Hampshire GU51 2UN. Our main contact number and email address [...]

Research has indicated that the level of post-operative infection and the rate of surgical wound infections is strongly influenced by operating theatre suitability and quality, thus, the level of [...]

The Irish division of Crowthorne Hi-Tec Services (CHTS) are pleased to announce that we have joined forces with Biopharma Group to offer our combined services throughout the whole of Ireland. Our [...]

Frank Hackett, UK Head of Sales We are pleased to introduce our new UK Head of Sales for Crowthorne Hi-Tec Services, Frank Hackett, a role in which he will continue to build and maintain strong [...]

Contrary to belief, the concept of Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) is not new. As a result of regulations being passed, reasons as to why portable appliances should be tested include: Legal [...]

Historically, safety cabinets, laboratory equipment and containment laboratories have been fumigated using formaldehyde. Methods have changed over the years and currently consists of boiling [...]

Following January 2016, the revised ISO 14644 Parts 1 and 2 replaced all previous standards. Part 1 deals with revised particle counting standards and the cleanroom classification whilst Part 2 [...]

Aware that guidelines have recently been issued within the NHS to remove ‘child-proof’ inserts from electrical sockets in NHS properties, we at Crowthorne have serious concerns in [...]

30 Years Providing Independent Service & Advice How we got from 1986 – 2016: Crowthorne Hi-Tec Services (CHTS) was established in 1986 by Owen Ford and Chris Bushell who identified that [...]

Is your compressed air supplied to the same quality as your clean room? Regular testing and validation of production environments is an accepted practice but, to date, similar testing of [...]

CL3 Laboratories – A Hot Topic For Inspections As the industry falls under ever closer scrutiny by inspectors, the demands on Lab Managers to provide evidentiary proof of containment is [...]