Southern Manufacturing & Electronics: Diamond Electronics features antimicrobial coated keyboards

Diamond Electronics will be featuring a wide range of dishwasher safe, antimicrobial coated, easy to clean keyboards at the 2018 Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition

The keyboards and accessories are intended for use with clean industrial applications including food processing, semiconductor manufacturing, laboratories, POS systems, public area data input and control and clinical and home use medical systems.



The iMTC range of sealed keyboards are waterproof to IP68, easy to clean and may be washed in a dishwasher.

The keyboards meet medical approval EN60601-1-2 and can be supplied with an approved antimicrobial coating, nano silver or ionic silver antibacterial technology.

Options include full QUERTY keyboards with either number pad or tracker pad, small footprint keyboards with integral pointing device, number pad keyboards with pointing device and a mouse with touch-scroll.

Optional adjustable backlighting, and keyboard on/off switch are available and the devices may be connected to host systems via USB cable or wireless link.

Peter Hall, Sales Director of Diamond Electronics, comments, “A growing number of end users are taking steps to limit the transfer of contamination or disease though the use of Industrial, medical and public HMI systems

“Applications continue to grow in medical electronics, home, office, retail and environmentally controlled industrial applications and our new sealed and washable keyboards provide a safe, easy and familiar control and data input HMI solution.”

Diamond’s full range of electromechanical and HMI solutions including switches, panel PCs keyboards, keypads and displays will also be on display at SMEE.