In hygiene-critical industries like food production, pharmaceuticals, and laboratory research, one of the simplest yet most effective ways to enhance hygiene standards is by replacing static equipment with mobile alternatives. While often overlooked, mobile equipment can dramatically improve access during cleaning, support airflow management, streamline compliance during audits and enhance flexibility across production zones.
Whether you're maintaining strict cleanroom classifications or managing high-care food processing areas, investing in mobile furniture and equipment can unlock a wide range of practical and hygienic benefits - all while keeping your operation efficient, compliant and audit-ready.
Complete cleaning access
By switching from static furniture and equipment to mobile options, hygiene-conscious facilities can ensure staff have easy access to clean the surrounding area. This is particularly crucial when cleaning the floor and surfaces underneath items where cleaning fluid and debris can splash up (and consequently collect) on the undersides of shelves and base panels. This simple switch can reduce the risk of microbial or particulate build-up in hard-to-reach areas and enhance the ability to maintain cleanroom classifications through regular, unobstructed sanitisation routines.
Stay audit-ready
Cleanliness is often the first thing auditors notice - and mobile equipment makes it easier to uphold and demonstrate high standards. Equipment that can be moved allows for faster and more thorough inspections, enabling auditors to check beneath and behind items with minimal disruption.
It also supports better execution of documented cleaning schedules. Units can be wheeled away for cleaning in a dedicated washdown area, reducing cross-contamination and ensuring protocols are followed correctly and consistently.
Aiding air flow
In cleanrooms and controlled lab environments, airflow is carefully managed to prevent contamination. Poorly placed or bulky static equipment can disrupt laminar airflow and create particle traps. It is for this reason that the selection of non-shedding materials, such as stainless steel, is so important.
Mobile units can be easily repositioned to stay clear of critical airflow paths or removed entirely during sensitive operations such as aseptic processing. This flexibility not only improves environmental control and cleanliness but also supports compliance with regulatory standards as it aids in airflow mapping, smoke testing and routine cleanroom validation. This ensures airflow integrity is preserved, helping to meet cleanroom standards and maintain GMP compliance.
Improving workflow flexibility
Mobile furniture and equipment enables food production facilities to quickly and easily adapt production areas to suit seasonal demand and the different cleaning processes that may be required.
For pharmaceutical production, the mobile equipment can be used to support zoning strategies with the ability for equipment to be relocated between validated cleaning stages. This helps ensure a smoother and more efficient batch changeover without the need for full-scale equipment disassembly.
Similarly, the ability to move furniture to dedicated cleaning zones prevents the disruption of operations by reducing downtime. Care should be taken that equipment remains in its dedicated high care or low care zone and that any mobile furniture used for the handling of potential allergens is not used elsewhere.
For environments with pass-through sterilisation systems or larger autoclaves, such as labs, cleanrooms and pharmaceutical environments, mobile units make it easier to transfer equipment safely and efficiently through these decontamination stages. The recent addition to our product range, the Hupfer medical goods transport trolley, enables UN3291-certified transport of sterile and contaminated items within hospitals and to offsite sterile service departments.
Small change, big impact
Switching to mobile equipment may seem like a small operational change, but its hygienic and practical benefits are far-reaching. Whether you're managing a high-care food facility or a GMP-compliant cleanroom, mobile solutions offer enhanced cleaning access, better airflow control, and greater flexibility in production areas – all of which are essential for maintaining a clean, safe and efficient working environment.
If you would like to find out more about our mobile furniture & equipment, please don’t hesitate to give us a call on +44 (0)1603 788 833 or email mail@teknomek.co.uk
