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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for all the great responses. I very briefly summarized them in the table below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">NIST CNST NanoFab<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cycled weekly, significant problem with replacement cost, about 100 sets/week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Louisville<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Self-laundered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">No significant problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Wisconsin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Self-laundered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Owns their garments laundered in their HEPA filtered washer and dryer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of CA, Berkeley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tyvek<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">User replaces their own regularly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cornell Nanoscale Facility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Had a problem, reduced inspection criteria to control replacement costs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Draper Labs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">60 users. Vendor offered insurance that proved cost effective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Delaware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Cycled out every two weeks, also some problems with cost of replacing damaged goods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Washington <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Had a similar experience to NIST. Switched vendors and it got better.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">UCSB Nanofabrication Facility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Large volume. Found better, cheaper service from a local small business instead of the big guys<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Pennsylvania <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Suffering similar experience as NIST. Working with vendor to try to control costs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">MIT Lincoln Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Switched to Alltex fiber suits. Just as clean as Gore-Tex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Utah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Laundry service<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Owns their garments, laundered by contractor every two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am not sure what we will do yet as we are trying to negotiate with the vendor. We reduced to the lowest inspection criteria but are still having problems, for example booties with a piece of tape stuck to them pulled as defective, then
it takes them 8 weeks to replace it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We now require all rejected garments be returned to us for inspection. We then inspect all discarded garments ourselves in order to train the vendor on what constitutes a defect. It is a painful process. Disposable garments are in our
future until and if we can find a better solution.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vince<o:p></o:p></p>
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