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Generally, industrial garments have a company logo and/or a
company name on the garment. Typically, garments were also
measured to fit the customer’s employees. In 1968, petitioner
switched from exclusively providing 100-percent cotton fabric
garments to also providing a 65-percent polyester and 35-percent
cotton blend fabric garments. About 60 to 65 percent of the
industrial garments involved in this case are made up of the
65-percent polyester and 35-percent cotton blend fabric.
Clean Room Garments
Petitioner serviced manufacturing industries such as
electronic manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, and disk
drive manufacturers. In a manufacturing type environment, the
clean room garment is designed to keep the particulate matter
from contaminating the product. Petitioner also serviced
medical, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and biomedical industries.
In these industries, the clean room garment is designed to
protect the worker from the product or hazardous chemicals.
Petitioner provided to its customers clean room garments
that included highly specialized polyester hoods, coveralls,
frocks, boots, smocks, lab coats, gloves, and polyurethane
wipers. Customers that used clean room garments required
garments that were clean, that were free from particulation, and
that met safety requirements. Petitioner’s clean room facilities
removed soil particles not visible to the human eye, sterilized
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