Our FAQ answers the main questions asked by our customers in terms of standards, processes, types of tests, etc. We are at your disposal if you have any queries that are not covered by the FAQ. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
COFRAC is the French Accreditation Commitee. It is responsible for assessing the competence and impartiality of laboratories and certification or inspection bodies, in order to provide confidence in their services.
ATEX stands for "explosive atmosphere". An ATEX climate chamber is designed to prevent any risk of explosion.
Nous considérons qu’une chambre climatique et une enceinte climatique ont la même fonctionnalité.
Cependant, une chambre climatique est une enceinte climatique de grand volume dans laquelle une personne peut entrer pour un test climatique (ex : tenue d’un maquillage à une température de 7°C).
It is a specific weather condition (exposure to temperature rise, to humidity, etc.). The applications are vast, and at Caelis, we can reproduce all the climatic conditions to be found anywhere in the world. We can even exceed these conditions and reach specific conditions that cannot be found naturally on earth.
The price varies depending on the size, the power, and the type of weather condition tested. The prices can vary from a few thousand euros to several hundred thousand. Contact us to know more about it.
Yes, either to meet a temporary need, or for accounting reasons (immobilization). Equipment can be rent from 1 month minimum to several years, new or second-hand.
A climate chamber is made up of refrigeration, automation, electrical, mechanical and control systems. This requires specific skills in each area, and the services of a professional specialized in the climatic environment are strongly recommended. The experts at Caelis are at your disposal and ready to listen.
Climate chambers are used for testing to guarantee product stability in different sectors.These are complex pieces of equipment whose maintenance requires the expertise and handling of professionals specializing in the climatic environment. With Caelis, you can rest assured that your equipment will be perfectly maintained.
To test a product’s stability (cosmetics, pharmaceuticals) is a regulatory necessity to ensure that its active principles hold up well, and ultimately to guarantee the safety of consumers/users. ICH stability studies are carried out in dedicated climate chambers under conditions defined by the ICH standard.
At Caelis, we offer reliable and precise equipments for all types of tests, including for ICH tests.
The ICH standard defines the procedures used to do stability tests and determines how the quality of pharmaceutical products varies over time and when they are subjected to various factors such as light, temperature or humidity. It is a standard used particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.
The Food and Drug Administration is the american federal agency for food and medication. Through standard 21 CR PART 11, the FDA requires the implementation of good practices to ensure that products manufactured by manufacturers meet the quality requirements it sets.
The climate chamber itself does not have to comply with this standard; it is the monitoring of the equipment that must comply with it (independent monitoring is the traceability of temperature and hygrometry in the climate chamber) to ensure that the products inside have not undergone any particular conditions. Caelis environmental chambers are qualified to 21 CFR PART 11.
FDX-15-140 is a set of specifications issued by AFNOR, the French standardization body, indicating how to characterize a climate chamber. The standard sets out the method for validating equipment and specifies the accuracy (homogeneity and stability) of the climate chamber. Our experts have worked on precision, and we've obtained very accurate homogeneity results (+/-0.3°C for temperature and +/-1.5% RH for humidity).
A drying oven with humidity is a climate chamber. This equipment regulates humidity with an humidifier (for humidity supply) and a dryer (for humidity depletion). Different technologies are available for humidifying and drying, and we adapt them to the context of the climate chamber and the chosen environment.
The climatic environment is primarily composed of temperature. We therefore regulate the temperature according to a given setpoint with a heat production system and a cooling production system. Then, several elements can make up the environment (humidity, light, CO2, pressure, etc.): we regulate each element with a suitable measurement sensor, a production system and a depletion system.
Several solutions exist to make a climate chamber safe. Various criteria help define the most suitable one:
• the location : is it a flammable, explosive or another kind of environment?
• the products involved : are they heavy, viscous, hot or something else?
• your specific needs : cybersecurity, encryption of regulation loop data, monitoring for dual control, etc.