In a surprising turn of events given the current economic climate, this year’s Controlled Environments Buyer’s Guide includes even more companies that provide products and services to the cleanroom and contamination control industry.

The 2010 Buyer’s Guide listings have grown over 20% in the past year. Though it’s hard to know what factors caused or influenced such a significant increase, essentially what this means for you is more choices when making your purchasing decisions.

This guide contains information on over 550 companies that identified themselves as providers of cleanroom apparel, benches, enclosures, components, consumables, equipment, services, critical cleaning, furniture, monitoring/instrumentation, and water/ chemicals/gases.

By leafing through the categories in the product section and finding company descriptions and contact information on the directory pages, you have all the information needed to buy, specify, or compare at your fingertips.

This Buyer’s Guide is not only a print magazine but the same information is also readily available on the cemag.us website. The search function on the Buyer’s Guide web pages allows you to type in specifically what you’re looking for. You can also choose to search by company, product, state, or country. The goal is to make the process fast and easy—and to deliver the results you’re looking for.

Last year, I talked about the value of using a dedicated industry guide vs. a Google™ search. Despite the reach of a web-wide search engine, the Controlled Environments Buyer’s Guide has narrowed the search for you before you even start. A targeted list not only saves time, but avoids the information overload of search results numbering in the tens of thousands with varying applicability.

For more than a decade, this annual guide has provided a “look no further” line-up to outfit your cleanroom. So take advantage of the years of expertise in cleanrooms and controlled environments and know that we’re in your corner.