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Typical electric tug cleanroom applications

Our electric tuggers provide safe, controlled movement across various industries, including:

  • Biopharmaceutical manufacturing: Ideal for transporting media totes, buffers, vessels, and chromatography columns.
  • Aerospace and space: Perfect for moving spacecraft and satellite components in cleanroom environments.
  • Semiconductor manufacturing: Used for handling supporting materials in assembly, fabrication, testing, and packaging.
  • Medical device manufacturing: Ideal for maneuvering delicate components with precision.

Benefits of using our electric tuggers for cleanrooms

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Move loads up to 154,000 lbs. and beyond

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Eliminate manual handling

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Deliver pinpoint positioning

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Greater maneuverability

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Total control of high-value equipment

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Manufactured from high-grade 316 stainless steel

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Reduce the risk of damage

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Cleanroom-ready solutions

Cleanroom tugs

Our range of cleanroom-grade electric tuggers

Our range of Stainless Steel electric tuggers feature a compact design, making them ideal for tight spaces by ensuring precise, controlled movement. With a variety of coupling options, prioritize load security and safety in your cleanroom. 

Explore our Stainless Steel tuggers for cleanrooms
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Prioritizing ergonomics in biopharmaceutical cleanrooms

As biopharma facilities become more mobile and modular, manufacturers are realizing the benefits of greater flexibility, agility, and reduced capital costs. However, with these advancements, it's crucial to prioritize ergonomics in cleanroom environments to enhance worker safety, efficiency, and compliance.

 

Read our pharmaceutical cleanroom case study

Trusted by the biggest pharmaceutical manufacturers

Our cleanroom tuggers are relied on to support safer material handling for leading brands.

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They are high-quality, reliable and easy to operate, and furthermore, they offer fantastic control and movement in tight spaces – so they are ideal for use in the biopharma industry.

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Managing Director, Strikebox Engineering

Why choose MasterMover?

  • The world's leading manufacturer of electric tuggers for over 25 years
  • Over 40+ electric tuggers to choose from
  • Unrivaled range of technology and control options available
  • In-house custom engineering capabilities 
  • Sales and service support across the whole US

We're here to help 

If you’re looking to improve safety, remove the risk of injury and unlock greater operational efficiency, we’re here to help. Speak to our team to discuss your application. 

Your Questions, Answered - FAQs

How do electric tuggers facilitate faster suite changeovers?

Where the reconfiguration of process trains or suite layouts was carried out manually, electric tuggers streamline the movement to a one-person task, enabling the safe and efficient movement of equipment.

Likewise, the benefits of ‘ballroom’ production layouts and mounting equipment on wheels allow pharmaceutical manufacturers to create mobile and modular processes – enabling faster suite changeovers and increasing uptime. 

I’m moving high-value, sensitive equipment, do electric tuggers connect securely to the load?

Yes, electric tuggers create an unbreakable connection to the load. Whether you opt for our SM100+ SS to move buffer totes, or our MT20-1500+ SS to control large chromatography columns, you can be confident that your equipment will be securely moved using our electric tugs.

Hydraulic coupling systems maximize load security and maneuverability, enabling large, heavy equipment to be precisely moved in even the tightest of spaces.

Can they maneuver around tight cleanroom environments?

Yes – all of our stainless steel electric tuggers and tows can push, pull, maneuver and stop mobile process equipment in tight spaces. We know space is at a premium in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and that size is a key consideration when it comes to material handling equipment.

Our electric tuggers are compact but powerful, meaning they’re adequately powered to move the heaviest of loads, without taking up valuable space.

The flexible steering on our machines also enables them to rotate loads on their corner axis. This unparalleled range of movement means that our electric tugs can move loads in even the tightest of cleanroom environments.

What grade of stainless steel is used?

All of our stainless steel electric tugs are constructed with 316 high-grade stainless steel.

A pickle and passivation process is used to assist with the formation of a continuous chromium-oxide passive film and to remove contaminants.

Finally, a 180-grit polish is applied to provide a durable finish. This makes them ideally suited to biopharmaceutical cleanrooms.     

What IP ratings are available?

The Stainless Steel range encompasses a number of different machines, with varying ingress protection (IP) ratings. Individual IP ratings can be found in the Technical Data for each machine.

Specification Sheets for each model, though as a guide, IP ratings range from IP42 - IP55, with higher ratings available as a custom solution.