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For the second year in a row, Astro Pak is honored to be named a Best Place to Work in Orange County! This award was given by the Orange County Business Journal, which is the second largest business journal in California. In 2018, Astro Pak first received the Best Place to Work award in Orange…

Astro Pak has seen more than its share of change since its founding sixty years ago at the dawn of the Space Race. The brainchild of Carl Verheyen and James St. Clair, Astro Pak was created to fill the need of providing precision cleaning and packaging services to Southern California space contractors. The company has…

One of the factors that help Astro Pak stand out from the competition is the skill of the company’s technicians. With the growth in business over the past decade, that could easily be dismissed as “practice makes perfect.” However, the reality is that Astro Pak is committed to providing the best training to its technicians,…

Approaching one year since the opening of its Space Coast cleanroom, Astro Pak announced that Russ Young has been appointed as the Senior Technical Sales Manager for its Titusville, FL cleanroom facility. Mr. Young officially joined the company in Q1 of 2019. His previous role as Business Development Manager at Swagelok, a manufacturer of gas…

Scott Dowd has been appointed Vice President of Information Technology at Astro Pak. He joins the Costa Mesa, CA based company as it continues to expand and offer its precision cleaning and other critical services to customers around the world. In the 60 years since the company’s founding, order processing and quotations have gone from…

On October 30th, Astro Pak formalized the opening of its newest cleanroom and mobile field services hub facility in Florida with an Open House and Ribbon Cutting event. Located just outside the Kennedy Space Center at 8855 Grissom Parkway in Titusville, the new facility marks the completion of the process that began when Astro Pak…

NASA’s upcoming Mars 2020 mission plans to build on the discoveries made by previous rovers and landers on the surface of Mars. The rover, based on the previous and proven Curiosity design, will continue the search to determine whether life ever existed on our planetary neighbor. Like previous missions, extreme care is being taken to…

Astro Pak new Florida facility on the Space Coast has been recently featured on R&D. RDMAG.com is the leading source of information on cleanrooms and controlled environments in life sciences, microelectronics, and semiconductors. Background of R&D: R&D provides timely, informative news and useful technical articles that broaden our readers’ knowledge of the R&D industry and improve the…

Astro Pak new Florida facility, located just outside of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), opened its doors in July. The newly renovated 38,000 square foot facility, located at 8855 Grissom Parkway in Titusville, represents a new chapter for the nearly 60-year-old high purity and precision cleaning company. On the one hand, it marks the completion of…

Astro Pak headquarters in Costa Mesa, California earned a top position in the 2018 Best Places to Work in the Orange County list. The annual county-wide program is conducted by the Orange County Business Journal, the regional business news outlet. The competition is a two-part process that includes looking at business organizations’ workplace policies, demographics…