
History
- Cleanpart is a 100 % subsidiary of the Hohnloser Group, a German holding company going back to 1890.
- The work of Cleanpart started in 1972 as IBM’s exclusive parts cleaning, recycling and precious-metal recovery facility.
- Between 1972 and 1998 Cleanpart was a semiconductor service division of Gärtner und Klinger GmbH, one of Europe’s leading chemical engineering companies in the area of surface technologies and corrosion protection for critical parts in the automotive industry. The company was sold to the Collini Group in 2010.

- In 1998 the S/C division was spun off under the name Cleanpart GmbH with headquarter in Asperg near Stuttgart in the southern German Neckar Region, Europe’s most productive industrial region and backbone to the German economy.
- In 2001 Cleanpart opened Europe’s largest and most advanced semiconductor service facility focused on cleaning and refurbishing of recyclable part. The facility was built to spec to the needs of the S/C industry.
- German Market
Cleanpart operated as an in-house service unit of the industrial chemical engineering and industrial plating company Gärtner & Klinger since 1971. Cleanpart created it’s first independent flagship facility in Germany in 2000. Currently Cleanpart operates facilities in Asperg, Ludwigsburg (R&D, specialty coats), Dresden, Thalheim/Bitterfeld (Solar industry) and Essen (Healthcare services).
- US Market
In 2001 Cleanpart acquired 51% of San Jose, California based LSA-Anodic Technologies and operated until 2008 under the name LSA-Cleanpart LLC as the first step to build a US presence. In 2008 Cleanpart took 100% control of LSA-Cleanpart, which currently operates as Cleanpart-West. Through a mix of greenfield projects and acquisitions in Cleanpart expanded it's US presence with additional facilities in California, Texas, Massachusetts and North Carolina. Currently, Cleanpart operates 6 facilities in 5 US States. - French Market
In 2003 Cleanpart started to establish a presence in the French market with a greenfield facility in Rousset and an acquisition in 2005. Cleanpart currently operates 4 facilities in France (Rousset, Seyssinet near Grenoble) and Toulouse.




