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When cleaning becomes crucial in the production of components intended for highly sophisticated measuring and control instruments Intermediate and final cleaning phases play a strategic role in any production process, because only the total removal of contamination can guarantee that components are of quality, reliable, and perfectly functional over time. The industry of measuring and control instruments is among the sectors placing the highest cleanliness © Agilent
requirements on their products, together with the medical and dental ones. Agilent Technologies Italia (Leinì, Torino, Italy) also needed to reduce water consumption and completely automate a cycle where human error could not be a process variable. In March, it achieved all its goals thanks to the collaboration of MEG (San Martino di Lupari, Padua, Italy), a company specialising in the production of multi-tank water and detergentbased cleaning plants.
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gilent Technologies is a global company, leader in life sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets, born back in 1999 as a spin-off of
Hewlett-Packard. Active in many sectors including pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, research, chemistry, and energy, it produces a wide range of analysis and research tools, such as devices for pharmaceutical companies and A turbo molecular pump produced by Agilent.
university research laboratories that analyse chemical elements or compounds. It has a Vacuum Products Division with a manufacturing plant in Leinì (Torino, Italy), where about 240 people work in production,
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