ISO 23464:2020

INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 23464
First edition
2020-07
Nitrile cleanroom gloves —
Specification
Reference number
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ISO 2020
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Classification . 2
5 Requirements . 2
6 Sampling . 3
7 Test methods . 3
7.1 Particle count . 3
7.2 Ionic content . 4
7.3 Total non-volatile residue . 4
7.4 Silicone, amide and DOP content . 4
8 Processing, packaging and marking . 4
Bibliography . 5
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Introduction
Cleanroom synthetic gloves have been used in the critical environments of the electronic, disk drive,
semiconductor as well as storage media industries, for the past 15 years. The quest for a cleaner glove,
in new emerging industries of TFT, LCD, nanotechnology, bio medical applications, has ensured that
this is a growing market. The industry use of cleanroom gloves is currently dominated by synthetic
gloves, though, this wasn’t the case, right up to the year 2000, wherein, latex gloves was the principle
cleanroom available.
The basic function of cleanroom gloves is to ensure minimal transfer of contaminants onto the products
or components being processed or manufactured in a clean environment. Such contaminants will
always be present in the exposed hands of the personnel. It is for this purpose that the hands need to be
gloved. However, such gloves need to have minimal contaminants on its surface, thus the need for the
use of cleanroom gloves.
The principle contaminants that could compromise the quality or the integrity of the product or process
in a critical environment are sub-micron particles, ionic chemical contaminants, non-volatile chemical
components as well as silicone, amide or dioctyl phthalate (DOP). In the cleanroom industry, these
parameters a
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