Our companies’ roots go back to 1979 when as Countdown Clean Systems we started cleanroom garment manufacture and opened our first laundry dedicated to processing garments specifically for cleanroom environments, and in 1983 when as Advanced Industrial Supplies (subsequently ais Cleanroom Products Ltd) we began to supply cleanroom consumables to the rapidly expanding semi conductor and micro electronic industries in the UK. 

Both companies expanded rapidly during the 1980’s and 1990’s as the UK became a major European centre for semi conductor manufacturing by some of the Worlds leading companies. At the same time other industries became increasingly reliant on manufacturing in critical environments such as Medical Device, Bio Tech and Pharmaceutical companies. In recent years as semi conductor businesses relocated to the Far East both companies restructured and focussed on core ranges occasionally discussing opportunities of working together.

In the Autumn of 2004 negotiations were successfully concluded and the companies merged creating ais Countdown Ltd which introduced into the United Kingdom the first dedicated cleanroom company able to provide from a single source a complete range of products and services to company’s operating critical environments.

We have a total of four facilities in the UK. Two garment processing facilities located in Swindon and Newcastle each accredited with the ISO 9001: 2000 quality standard and carry out decontamination to ASTMF51-00 Class A and two cleanroom consumables distribution centres located at Rochester and Falkirk. Our operational facilities can provide competitive rental contracts for garment supply and decontamination, or a process contract to decontaminate, inspect and repair existing garments. For some customers we have our own dedicated employees on site responsible for controlling their entire garment handling system indeed we can provide total facilities management when we include our extensive range of cleanroom consumables.

From garments and processing to gloves, wipers and mats we can justifiably claim that we “service critical environments to a higher standard.”